lowbie tanking tips?Follow

i'm gonna try and make use of that newfangled LFD and hit every frakking dungeon on the way up. i enjoy the hell out of tanking so i'm gonna go that route til i catch up to my bro's 45 warr. i'm starting from scratch, there won't be a pile of leveling gear sitting in the kharanos mailbox when he first gets there this time, heh heh heh. (actually i did manage to pick up a level 9 mace... of shadow damage...) soooooo....

ret vs prot

i'm thinking of going straight down ret to start: level 36. i love parry with a slow 2H... does it still speed up the swing? saving 10% mana... on the instant casts? am i going to be getting some expensive instacast spells soon?

level 38 prot. ehhh reckoning sounds pretty damn cool.


this'll be on a medium pop pvp server so world pvp has to bear a little consideration. not sure how many hordies i'll run into though. yesterday i got four toons up to 5, 6, 6, and 10 and only saw 2 other people in the starting areas O.O and nary a soul dueling outside if. wtf!!??!?!

I leveled 1-80 Prot. Did it take longer?...Probably. Was it difficult?...Never. If you like to tank, then spec prot and do what you said..stay in the LFD channel and level. Ultimately you will be a much better tank. I have seen too many pally's, and especially DK's, that leveled dps and at 70-80 decided that they wanted to "tank" and failed miserably.