So I'm standing just inside the instance at heroic UK after being the last person summoned in and I start getting tells from my healer troll priest (Here's his armory) ~ now, it's fairly obvious to me he's ran his fair share of heroics. I've ran 9-10 but haven't really tried to run more, just when it's convenient to me.
He asks me if I'm really planning on tanking in the gear I'm in (gear link in my sig subtracting my argent dawn commision for that 70 armor trinket). I told him it's some of the best stuff I can't get for heroics pre-raid and I haven't had real problems in any heroics I've done, including running heroic UK a couple times already.
After the first few rooms we got to the dragons room and we started clearing it, when I noticed I was always getting close to death on the pulls. Now, I'll be honest, my style of tanking has never really included using Barkskin on the trash pulls, unless i'm pulling more than 3 but I was having to constantly pop that and the 30% health talent. I stopped after the second dragon to let him regen mana and he was openly complaining in party chat of how much damage I was taking during the run. Which has never happened to me before.
I may not be the best geared bear in the world, but I figure 28k self buffed hp, 22k armor and 35.5% dodge is really respectable. Getting hit for 2k-3.5k in heroics is normal to me.
During the next pull I die, and the Deathknight ends up tanking the dragon and survives (barely) at which time the priest proclaims that he should tank because I'm not geared for it. Then it got into a heated conversation about druid tanking gear and what stats are important. I told him that defense was nigh worthless to bears and he flipped, we ended up wiping and both myself and him left the group.
I'm not upset about it, and I'm not even worried, I'm just wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience or has been asked about their gear before?
Edited, Dec 22nd 2008 10:03pm by Paracleets