Almost Heroic, buuut... (tank question)Follow

Hey there pally tanks. I just hit 80 a while back and am gearing up to run heroics with my small guild (not really enought people on during the day to do 10-mans or anything).

I am currently at 538 defense and about 21K HP unbuffed.

My issue is that I need to grind out some Argent Crusade rep the next few days to get the head enchant (+37 STA/ +20 DEF) I bought my tabard and am now looking for lvl 80 dungeons to champion for them.

Any suggestions?

Also I had been running dailies in Icecrown, but when I went to do my Assault by Air (and Ground), the ground attack wasn't available, can you only do this so many times?

Is there a stickied guide on where Faction dailies are located? Because I think I am about 6500/21000 till revered (all I want really)

Thanks guys.

Oh cool, thank you. I guess I had a brain fart and forgot that heroics had a lower defense requirement.

Always accepting advice if anyone wants to chime in.

Don't be afraid to try heroics. Wiping doesnt cause any permanent damage (except for repair bills ofc.), and there's no better way to learn than to try. Besides, you'll get better gear as soon as you start doing them. Try to start with the easy ones first.

Oh, and if you need further info on (pre-)heroic gear; check this one
It has info about all the pre-heroic blue gear, (which you can filter out to find the prot gear), heroic gear, and a synopsis about the tacts inside.

Regular UP and HoL. You can start running them and getting tabard rep as early as level 76.

HoL (normal) would be a good one to grind rep on because the final boss drops a trinket with +65 defense.

About the ground assault quest, I "think" that if someone has done the quest recently you have to wait for the NPCs to respawn before you can do the quest. There have been times when I've gone down there and the quest hasn't been available, but then I go back later, and it's there. If someone could confirm this or correct me on this that would be great, but I do know that it's not like you do it X times and can't do it anymore.

And as far as faction quests go, here is a link to wowhead's page on the Argent Crusade faction. It should take you right to the quests tab. This lists all quests that offer Argent Crusade rep, including dailies, and what zone they are in.

Cheers :)

Edited, Jun 30th 2009 2:45pm by Maulgak

I would like to thank everyone for all the great advice youve given me.

Give me a sec and Ill post my armory.

I have the Tempered Titansteel Treads in the mail. And I know the Earthguard Ring isnt that great but I liked being able to throw a +24 Stam Gem in it.

Im thinking of switching my meta to the Austere Earthguard Diamond for the Stam, since ill pick the Defense back up once I get my head, shoulder, and titanweave enchants.

Here is my armory, please take a look and give some feedback.

Oh, yeah, btw, i know my spec is gimped, going to change it soon.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=The+Scryers&n=Insano

Thanks again guys

The healer will make a BIG difference in how good you can tank a heroic.

I've done H-Nex and H-UK a number of times now, and have had a few smooth runs, but yet a few runs where we barely managed to pull it off by the skin of our teeth.

A good healer will keep you above 50% HP at all times.
A Bad Healer will let you go to critical HP on every trash pull and barely pull you out alive, and make it look like you can't handle the instance.

I've been told I'm Naxx-ready at least as an OT. I have 26.6k health, 541 def, and I think some 80% combined avoidance with Holy Shield up. But yet sometimes when I run something as simple as HUK, I almost die on half of the group pulls in there, and it took me awhile to figure out, it was the healer's fault.

I even ran a H-DTK with an Ulduar-geared druid healer... and damn, we even downed Dred with no problems whatsoever.

The DPS will also have an affect, faster you kill the mobs, the less time is spent tanking them. But more than anything, the healer is important. An ulduar-geared healer could likely keep a 16k health person alive in a heroic, as long as they had the 535 Defense. A healer who is barely heroics? Yeah, you're gonna need a better tanking setup....

Yeah, ive run HoL twice for the sword and trinket (to no avail, no drops yet), which would help a ton. Also, im Power leverling my JC to get one of the ruby hare or something trinkets (the one with the blue and yellow sockets)

Also, if anyone is keeping track and would like to give me some more advice beyond this, please check out my armory above. Or in my other post, i forgot which one it got linked in.

Update: 543 Def
23.6K HP

Ready for some easy heroics?

Instead of running HoL for the sword, you can get a better tank weapon out of the Argent Tournament:

Teldrassil Protector (Note, if you're Horde, there's an equivalent weapon by a different name, same stats IIRC).

It doesn't take very long at all to get this; you have to do Aspirant Dailies for 3 days, Valiants' dailies for 5 days, and then the 3rd day of being a Champion should give you enough Seals to buy this weapon.

Edited, Jul 4th 2009 11:45am by Zariamnk