My main is a lvl 70 Mage, but a few months ago I rolled a Druid, Ronule, that I wanted to have to lvl 70 by the time WoTLK comes out. Fortunately, leveling is easy now and I reached 70 about a month ago. When leveling, my focus was on gaining experience and moving on, so I did almost no grouping until I was over lvl 65. Now that I have reached my leveling goal, I am trying to develop the skill set to be a good tank and I am having a hard time filling the role.
I am now at 13K HP/409 Def (profile does not currently show the Regal Protectorate I have)/18.2K Armor and I think he takes a pretty good beating. So far I have tanked only 10 instances, but I have been very disappointed in both my performance and that of the people I have tanked for. A solid third of the groups have contained members, both DPS and healers, that would not let me get good agro before making their move, the bane of any tank. However, there have been groups in which I was being given a solid 5 seconds to get agro and a mob or two was still pulled off me fairly quickly.
This experience has given me an all new appreciation for Druid and Warrior tanks (I still think Palis have it easy in controlling the fight), as there is almost a tightrope that has to be walked in regards to health, armor, defense (including all of the Dodge, Block, and Parry), and attack abilities (to hit, to crit, and power). I know I have work to do on my rotation, and this is not really the point of my post (that is what the stickies and searches are for). I guess I am just wondering whether my experience is uncommon?
Edited, Jun 18th 2008 10:48pm by wjcott