New to a Pally, and tanking in general. I would like to try to tank Ragefire Chasm this weekend, and i am looking for a few tips.
I am lvl 15, and my first few points are in the ret. tree. I'm leveling as a ret spec (per the advice of these boards). I know to take a sheild with me to tank.
As a tank, I know my job is to keep threat on me and off others. In pulls of a few mobs (3 or 4), how do I do that exactly? I assume I need to mark a kill order and focus a seal & judgement on that mob first. What about the others? Would I tab/attack all non-cc'ed mobs to raise my threat to them, or just stay to the order?
With me focused on the first kill and ignoring the others, I can see the first heal pulling the other mobs to the healer. With me tabbing, I can see me not keeping the aggro on the first mob on the kill order.
Perhaps I just need enough time (more than a warrior) to build threat.
What suggestions do you have for a level 15 Pally Newb (trying hard not to be a NoOb!)
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At lvl 16 you'll learn two spells that will greatly aid your tanking: Retribution Aura and Righteous Fury. Ret Aura will cause holy damage to reflect to mobs that beat on you, while Righteous Fury will boost the threat generated by your holy damage.
Cast Seal of Righteousness and then Judge it as you charge the mobs. Cast SoR to keep that threat growing, judge on new mobs when the first goes down (you'll have to work out your own rhythm on this). You probably should start with the ranged/caster in the group, and thus allow the melee mobs to wail away on you.
As long as the DPS members in your group burn down the mobs in the kill order you specify at the outset, the only real worry will be the healer pulling aggro from the other mobs you're holding. In order to deal with that situation, you have the spell Righteous Defense to "taunt" the mobs that leave you to attack the healer.
If you're running RFC (or VC) with PUGs, expect to take a lot of abuse from the uber-leet DPS noobs in your parties; it comes with the territory. In all honesty, I wouldn't acknowledge that this is my first time tanking if I were in your shoes.
Cast Seal of Righteousness and then Judge it as you charge the mobs. Cast SoR to keep that threat growing, judge on new mobs when the first goes down (you'll have to work out your own rhythm on this). You probably should start with the ranged/caster in the group, and thus allow the melee mobs to wail away on you.
As long as the DPS members in your group burn down the mobs in the kill order you specify at the outset, the only real worry will be the healer pulling aggro from the other mobs you're holding. In order to deal with that situation, you have the spell Righteous Defense to "taunt" the mobs that leave you to attack the healer.
If you're running RFC (or VC) with PUGs, expect to take a lot of abuse from the uber-leet DPS noobs in your parties; it comes with the territory. In all honesty, I wouldn't acknowledge that this is my first time tanking if I were in your shoes.
Remember, Holy Damage = threat for Paladin. If you judge Righteousness on first mob and hit them once (with Seal of Righteousness), you should generate some good initial threat on that mob. Then, you can tab/hit the other mobs with Seal of Righteousness up. Just hit them all once, and you should have enough threat to hold them through healing. Then, focus on holding first mob until it is at about 5-10% health. You should not worry about killing blow. Let the DPS take care of that. So at 5-10% mob health, switch to second mob.
If the first mob leaves you while you are tabbing around, hit it with Hammer of Justice to stop it from running. If it gets out of range before you can stun it, then use Righteous Defense to pull it back.
Once you hit lvl 20, you'll get Consecration. That will make you AoE tank king, and you'll never have to tab hit again....woot!!!!
Finally, mages at that level like to sheep the mob right next to the tank for some reason. If you are tab hitting, make sure to NOT HIT THE SHEEP.
Edited, Apr 2nd 2008 10:26am by YJMark
If the first mob leaves you while you are tabbing around, hit it with Hammer of Justice to stop it from running. If it gets out of range before you can stun it, then use Righteous Defense to pull it back.
Once you hit lvl 20, you'll get Consecration. That will make you AoE tank king, and you'll never have to tab hit again....woot!!!!
Finally, mages at that level like to sheep the mob right next to the tank for some reason. If you are tab hitting, make sure to NOT HIT THE SHEEP.
Edited, Apr 2nd 2008 10:26am by YJMark
If you like you can also invest in a shield spike for your shield. I think they add between 8-12 damage per block (iron shield spike). They dont cost much for the Iron ones and they help rack up some extra dps on those extra mobs your trying to hold.
Good for the lower levels before you get consecration available.
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