Tanked my firstFollow

I tanked my first dungeon, it was a lot of fun, no deaths, and I took 68% of the damage. The problem I had was I had to pause after every few fights to drink. Maybe I shouldn't spam my abilities like I do on retribution. As protection I don't get mana back from judgements. I was expecting more back from being healed.

my question is does it get better or should I look for more of a minimum ability use when tanking?

smiles,

J.

You could try using less abilities then just taunt if someone gets aggro.

Works fine when I do it. I rarely need to taunt but occasionally I will. I find with a typical PUG just judging, using hammer and making very liberal use of consecrate and holy shield is enough. I don't pull with avengers in almost any circumstance and I don't spam consecrate or holy shield every single cooldown.

This doesn't slow down my pace at all, it speeds it up. I don't think this thread is about raid tanking or serious tanking..for all we know the OP is still LEVELING, in which case what I say makes even more sense.

Basically don't overcomplicate very simple things.

Edited, Jun 1st 2009 10:59am by mikelolol

I'd rather go bawls out and practice a proper, thorough rotation and stop to drink after every few pulls than hold back trying to conserve mana. Our mana pools are pretty puny...with good vendor water (I always operate on the assumption that no mage will be present) it doesn't take long to top up from empty. If I start drinking as soon as my in-combat flag drops, I'm usually good to go within seconds of everyone else having finished looting.

HOWEVER, if your group is functioning fine with you using a reduced rotation, there's no harm in it at all. It's one of those gray areas where we have a little room to play before the game mechanics make the decision for us. If it's a case where a reduced rotation for the purposes of mana conservation is keeping both of your taunts on cooldown most of the time, chances are mana should be a secondary concern. If, on the other hand, dps are still not overtaking you on the threat list with a reduced rotation then it doesn't really matter what your tps could be, the job is getting done.

Thank you, no one seemed to mind waiting 10 seconds between pulls seeing as they weren't being touched the downtime was worth it.

smiles,

J.

I should have been more clear myself. I start out by getting a feel for the group and adjust my rotation from there. I obviously don't want taunt on cooldown every single pull. I figure the odd taunt is fine, preferably on a ranged DPS though, if we have high DPS melee I'll play a bit safer since theres less reaction time to taunt off them. I'm pretty quick on it though, but even still. You have alot more time to get a mob off a mage then a rogue.

Try giving sanctuary a try instead of wisdom. You get mana back each time you dodge/block/parry, that alone should help quite a bit with mana issues. I'm not sure if you've taken spiritual attunement yet in your build. Later on you'll get divine plea as well, and by 80 you'll have better gear and more talents as well, so you're blocking/parrying/dodging more often meaning more mana back.

Occasionally you're just not taking much damage at all, the healer is waiting 10-15 seconds between each small heal. In these cases you might want to pull 2 groups of mobs, just try to be careful about it.

Which instance are you running BTW? At that level I basically lived in the first half of BRD along with the odd ST run. Some people hate BRD, but I basically leveled from 50-58 tanking it on my paladin and my druid. Fun times. But I totally knew the way through it, where alot of other people get lost, backtrack, get frustrated and hearth.

Make sure to get the talent that keeps divine plea up all the time when you hit mobs. Makes chain pulling your mana regen friend. Use the glyph that reduces damage to you while Plea is up also to get more benefit for yourself.

Edited, Jun 2nd 2009 2:52pm by Fubbin