xNocturnalSunx wrote:
It's not "Thrash," it's Trash. What is with the typing of "Y" for "you?"
Anywho, as Mental said, Concussion Blow really shouldn't be in your rotation unless it's regarding a mob like a caster. It should mainly be Shield Slam, Devastate and Heroic Strike. With Thunderclap and shockwave for multi-mobs. What are the glyphs you're using?
I found out last night that the Glyph of Sunder armor, and the Glyph of Devastate do "stack" in a sense. Adding two sunders to your targeted mob, and adding one sunder to an additional mob allows for easy threat as well.
This is not true. Concussion Blow should most definitely be a staple in your rotation. You are right in that certain trash mobs should have Concussion Blow priority to stop casts and whatnot, but that's irrelevant towards the majority of content where you'd worry about threat considering most bosses and many raid mobs are immune to stuns. In those situations, Concussion Blow should be given priority on your threat rotation due to its relative damage. Even Shockwave should be used for threat over a Devastate.
Here's my tanking rotation, loosely. We'll use the example of a boss that is stationary for a bit of simplification. Let's say... Loatheb.
First I'll Heroic Throw -> Charge. What this does is use a free rage ability to generate a little initial threat as well as provide me with a nice rage buffer with the Charge to start things out with.
Immediately after I will use Shield Slam. Highest threat and whatnot. After this I'll start spamming Devastate and Heroic Strike until I have 5 stacks of Sunder. If Sword and Board procs I'll use another Shield Slam. I may also use Revenge if it lights up but I prefer to give the Sunder 5 stack priority as that will increase threat on all subsequent abilities.
Once I have 5 sunders, I will now give priority in this order:
Shield Slam -> Revenge -> Concussion Blow -> Shockwave -> Rend -> Devastate. I will not reapply Rend if one of those abilities is up or I am about to run out of stacks of Sunder, but otherwise Rend gets reapplied. Of course the entire time I spamming Heroic Strikes. I prefer to never see white damage.
Using this rotation I topped 2k dps tanking Patchwerk yesterday. Now, I've heard of warriors topping 3k dps while tanking Patch so my numbers are not that impressive, I imagine that I could do more with about 25-35 more expertise (I'm at 25) and more hit rating, at least 50 or so.
Edit: to the OP, what are your expertise and threat numbers? You aren't wearing your gear in your armory. That could be the largest reason why you would see threat as an issue.
Edited, Jan 21st 2009 7:41pm by Lorimath