When does prot become necessary for tanking?Follow

At 62 and fury specced I've tanked both ramparts and BF just fine. I know that at 70 is prot or nothing for tanking, but what about the middle level instances like mana-tombs, durnhold, and sethekk? At what point to I have to start declining when people ask the inevitable "can you tank?"

i think you can wait till 70 if you want. I just dinged 70 and have tanked instances as prot, fury and arms on my way up. Is prot needed? i dunno, but goddamn is it a lot easier. I respecced prot at 69 and tanked reg slabs with no CC other than seduce and normal geared people. It went great. So many tools to use. I really liked it.

So after you face your 1st huge boglord type mob just to your right, and you get 1 shotted by them... what does he do? Those are very hard hitting mobs.

I've never heard of someone recommending another Warrior to tank using a 2h and Berserker stance. Oy, sometimes I wish there were a ignore button.

Is Wartard a popular term yet? If that that would be used in the definition .

I have DW swords in normal instances, but I'm in all KZ gear, I have to do that for the rage, also I take less damage than a normal tank going thru there in greens/blues/shield would. (on bosses and hard hitting mobs I put on my shield).

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Is Wartard a popular term yet? If that that would be used in the definition icon.

I like the word "Warritard" myself, as it rhymes with warrior, kinda.


Anyway, Although you can tank up to 70 as arms/fury, you'll have a much easier time doing it as prot, I personnaly found it easier when trying to hit 70 aswell, dual wield devestate spam <3

As for heroics, don't 'zerker 2h it, you're better off getting the mage to tank.

I actually agree with this. As a mid-60s prot spec, I can see that gear makes a much bigger difference in taking damage than your spec. That said, the most important part about being a tank is holding aggro, and with defensive gear you almost need the high-threat talents in deep prot.

Plus, spamming improved shield block has saved me more than once on a hard-hitting boss the healer can barely keep up with.

Heh. I have.

Not that one should, but one can tank with a 2h in 'zerker stance.



Exactly, defiance, shield slam, one handed weapon spec...

But it has a bit of mitigation too, 5% more sta 10% more str is both in one, albeit str is a very low tps increase.

Anticipation, toughness and last stand are pretty useful, mitigation and 'survival tool'.

Shield mastery is tps and mitigation (once you get enough shield block, you can as prot grind many mobs without taking a single point of damage).

Imp def stance is mitigation.

Devastate should be more threat... We'll probably see an increase to devastate tps once we get to 80, but I have a sneaky suspicion that bliz will make it less useful; ie. how sunder got gimped (nerfed) post 60 for tanking when BC came out. it is a tps talent, but it's tps scales very poorly.






Yeah, once you get to raiding, you'll have shield block up 100% (or as close to as possible) on boss fights.

Crushing blows hurt a lot, and pushing them off that hit table is really really important.

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On a side note, conc blow is very useful for tanking, combined with imp revenge and imp shield bash, you can keep caster mobs from doing some nasty things.

I leveled my warrior up to 70 as Arms/Prot, using a 35/5/21 spec. This allowed me to use MS with a 2 hander when grinding/pvping and had the nice perks of improved shield block, shield spec, last stand, and concussion blow. I know most bosses are immune to stun effects. It was just nice to be able to stun someone for 5 secs while you beat on them. With this build I was able to tank all the normal instances and and not be a turtle while grinding.
I've since gone prot. and am loving it. I never realized how many instant attacks a prot. warrior has. Sure the numbers aren't as big, but they sure happen a lot quicker.