Is my gear ok for tanking heroics?Follow

Hello,
My guild is wanting to do heroics soon, but I've never done heroics before so I'm abit nervous! Is my gear ok first of all?
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Kael%27thas&n=Felyra

Also is there anything I should know about doing heroics? Thank you all for any replies

Yes, you are fine for starting to do heroics. If your healer is capable and your DPS aren't all < 1000 some heroics shouldn't present much problem at all.

I would recommend H UK to start. It is by far the easiest. If your group doesn't have too much trouble with that one, H Nexus, H DTK, and H CoS are not bad at all either, especially for a prot Pally. H VH can be easy, or it can be a royal pain, depending on which bosses you get. The rest are more difficult in varying degrees.

As long as your tanking abilities match your gear and your healer and DPS are at least competent, I don't think you will have much trouble with the easier heroics and honestly you will find yourself progressing into the "harder" heroics within a short period of time. When I first started doing heroics, I liked to do H UK and H Nexus virtually every day... 8 relatively easy emblems of heroism, 10 if either of them was the daily heroic!

EDIT:

541 Defense with 23.5k health is honestly good enough to MT or OT in Naxx-10 with a good group.

Edited, Feb 18th 2009 2:25pm by jeromesimina

As everyone else has said, you're gearing is pretty solid; certainly more than capable of running Heroic content with a decent crew. Couple of things I would consider picking up though; the Titanium Earthguard Ring and the Titanium Earthguard Chain. Both will give you a nice boost to Str and Sta. There is, of course, the argument that the badge vendor necklace is a better option, and it is marginally better. However, the first badge item I imagine you get will be the 15 badge Libram of Obstruction, then another 25 badges to pick up the necklace. For the sake of, what, a thousand gold (ish) I bought the titanium neck and will be buying the belt, chest and gloves first.

Purely personal preference you understand. The main thing point is that you are, indeed, ready to start leading out dungeon crawls. Have fun with it, and I hope you'll be as keyed up and ever so slightly nervous as I was in my first forays to easier HC content :)

Also, regarding ease of content I would suggest Utgarde Keep, then The Nexus followed by Violet Hold. Only problem you may have in Nexus is if you have sub-par dips while dropping the stroppy dragon; I had the dubious pleasure of running Nex, Uk and VH in one evening, with the same party. I came in second on the recount meter. Bloody second. I'm the tank for goodness sake- i should be 4th. 3rd tops. But 2nd?

Sorry, rant over :) But seriously- bring half decent dips and you'll have a much more pleasant experience :)

Good luck with it all, and please report back on your experiences :)

Ttfn,

Jon

A blight on you for using the term def cap -.-

I love that discussion always turns into a debate over the merit of the term "Defense Cap" whenever it's used. And I love that for some reason I'm contributing to that debate this time (part of the problem eh?).

On the one hand, everyone knows what people actually mean when they say it. On the other hand, it shows ignorance. Do you go along for the sake of making everything go smoother and faster, or do you attempt to correct a needless bit of annoying ignorance before it continues to spread? And for that matter, why is the term "Defense Cap" popping up all of the time now when the mechanic is effectively unchanged from TBC. While it was an occasional thing to see it back then you almost exclusively saw people refer to it as "Uncritable" -- why the misnomer now?

The fact is that the implications of symantics here are similar to the implications of racism. On the one hand, the only way to stamp it out is to ignore valuable history that DID happen and dishonor those that are part of that history. An unacceptable solution. Much the same, eliminating ignorance over WoW symantics (something that is VASTLY less important and frankly cant even be compared based on anything but symantics) just isn't possible.

So then we see that the second option, attempting to alleviate the ignorance of people on the matter, is actually impossible. But does this mean we should subscribe to the first option? Does a captain abandon their ship and their crew when faced with overwhelming odds? As humans we have principles and standards that we live by. It would be wrong to deny that such ignorance exists, and ignoring it effectively implies denial.

But how wrong? I mean, we're talking about some meaningless term in WoW -- not about the personal justification that everyone who has taken a human life goes through. Not the condemnable events of the Holocaust. Does simply being wrong justify our adament refutation of something?

TL;DR: Yes, I just successfully related the debate over using the term "Defense Cap" with BOTH RACISM AND *****! According to the rules of the internet -- this discussion is now closed for now and eternity. There has been far too much thought and debate put into this meaningless topic by people all over every forum that has anything to do with tanking in the most remote way. Remember, if it gets to racism and *****.. it's gone TOO FAR.

I bow down in ROFL-spasms to the great Losie

Haha - a lot written about "Def-Cap"

The term is used to describe a simple situation of being uncritable and a basic aim of all tanks.

Come on guys - The OP asked "Can I tank?"

My response was "yeah, you're def-cap'd" followed by a piece of advice.




He didn't ask for the Unified Theory Of Gravity Tanking


Can you do a Strike Through here? I shrunk the word gravity and changed it, but don't know how to make a strike through????

"She" as in me, doesn't mind. I started WoW about 3 years ago and just got to 80 a month or so ago, so this is all very interesting :)

That is what we like to hear! Grats on your first successful heroics and have fun with more heroics in the future! If you are into raiding and can get a good group together, Naxx-10 is quite fun, and so is OS-10 and VOA-10 (and OS-10 and VOA-10 have the advantage of only taking 15-30 minutes or so).

If you decide to raid, make sure to read up on boss strategies and things like that so you have some idea of what is coming. If you have any more questions, this is the place to ask!