I'm a fairly new to tanking and I was asked to tank H UK last night. My DK is 550 defense and has some ok tanking gear. I asked that dps give me a couple secs to grab aggro. I start off with DnD, diseases up, then pestillence. (in frost presence)
Problem number one, dps only waits till i hit first mob with icy touch, then they open up. Mage pulls aggro right off the bat, I watch mobs run by me for him, then dead mage. I seemed to spend most of my time trying to get mobs to hit me. Used taunt to get them, hit them, death grip them...gah...i wanted to scream.
This went on for the entire run. We wiped on trash constantly, boss fights were fine. This isn't the first time I've had mages pull mobs off me.
My question to you is: as DK tanks, what do you do to get the initial aggro before the mage does? ie how do I get 3-5 mobs to hate me instead of the mage. Especially if the dps doesn't wait at all.
If any of you play mages, what do you suggest?
Thanks in advance.
Edit: my toon is MKNZY on Aegwynn. I think i'm logged out in my tanking gear.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Aegwynn&n=Mknzy
Edited, May 21st 2009 1:27pm by Xenexia
Edited, May 21st 2009 1:31pm by Xenexia