So I just bought duel-spec the other day and I'm trying to collect gear to tank with at the moment. I am trying to set up my new skill bar and I was wondering what the correct/preferred rotation is for max aggro.
also, if anyone can steer me in the right direction on my spec also.
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Bladefist&cn=Waroflite
Thanks in advance
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I would recommend that you read Losie's guide to tanking in WotLK. It has a lot of information about the 9/6/9 tanking rotation, as well as starter tanking gear that you should look for/have crafted. There are some newer crafted items that may not be in the guide that are superior, so if you can get the mats together, you can get a pretty darn good tank gear set right off the bat (if you have a lot of emblems and the ability to get a lot of titansteel and a fair pile of different eternals).
I cannot do any better than his guide for basic rotation, but I will tell you that the trick to being a good pally tank is learning when to stray from the "normal" rotation and do different things in order to maintain aggro and keep ugly situations from turning into a wipe.
At this point, you will have a lot of dps that are capable of 5k, 6k, or even more that love their recount and want to wail on everything right off the bat. If you are a new tank, at least skull your primary target and pray that that is the one they go after first. Holding aggro as a new tank will be a big challenge, but once you get the hang of that and get some tanking experience I think you will really enjoy it!
I cannot do any better than his guide for basic rotation, but I will tell you that the trick to being a good pally tank is learning when to stray from the "normal" rotation and do different things in order to maintain aggro and keep ugly situations from turning into a wipe.
At this point, you will have a lot of dps that are capable of 5k, 6k, or even more that love their recount and want to wail on everything right off the bat. If you are a new tank, at least skull your primary target and pray that that is the one they go after first. Holding aggro as a new tank will be a big challenge, but once you get the hang of that and get some tanking experience I think you will really enjoy it!
okay thanks I'll check it out, do you have any suggestions as far as how I picked my build also? I'm not at 80 so I can't really look at the maxed out builds so at the moment I just need to know if I made any bad decisions etc.
Like he said... Learn the 969 thing, but you need to learn how to apply it. Tanking with a rotation is a good idea, but you need to know more about how to apply the threat quickly or when certain attacks might not work as you want.
For example: The 3 pulls in the round room (were the fire shoots out) in H.UK. (Everyone knows this instance, so it's an easy reference)... These are not hard to tank, but there are better ways of tanking them. When I first started I was throwing my shield to engage the first mob. The problem is that the shield didn't hit the other two mobs. Thus, weak initial agro... Instead I have started to just run at one of the mobs. I first hit him w/ a SoR (Shield of Righteous?)... The other mobs start running at me. I drop Consecrate and as they arrive I throw the shield. This instantly spikes agro on all 3 mobs. Follow up with an HoR and they are glued to you.
So - please learn the rotations. It's important for boss fights, but you need to really look at each pull as a mini boss fight. Many DPS just know that they need to apply Blizzard or Fan of Knives or Swipe for roughly 30 seconds. What they don't realize (Or don't care about) the fact that while they are doing that, I need to maintain agro on all of the mobs plus get out of the snare that the Crypt Fiend put on me, then drag the entire group of mobs over to a caster who is not under my control....
I guess in short... You just have to think a lot.
For example: The 3 pulls in the round room (were the fire shoots out) in H.UK. (Everyone knows this instance, so it's an easy reference)... These are not hard to tank, but there are better ways of tanking them. When I first started I was throwing my shield to engage the first mob. The problem is that the shield didn't hit the other two mobs. Thus, weak initial agro... Instead I have started to just run at one of the mobs. I first hit him w/ a SoR (Shield of Righteous?)... The other mobs start running at me. I drop Consecrate and as they arrive I throw the shield. This instantly spikes agro on all 3 mobs. Follow up with an HoR and they are glued to you.
So - please learn the rotations. It's important for boss fights, but you need to really look at each pull as a mini boss fight. Many DPS just know that they need to apply Blizzard or Fan of Knives or Swipe for roughly 30 seconds. What they don't realize (Or don't care about) the fact that while they are doing that, I need to maintain agro on all of the mobs plus get out of the snare that the Crypt Fiend put on me, then drag the entire group of mobs over to a caster who is not under my control....
I guess in short... You just have to think a lot.
Hand of Reckoning is your friend, as soon as you have the 2pc t9 set bonus I'd advise pulling with it and AS as the taunt is not on the gcd so you can do both at once. I've seen Hand of Reckoning crits for over 5k so its a very nice chunk of threat just by itself. Also since you'll most likely be running 'a lot' of heroics I'd advise picking up Seal of Command in the ret tree(just check out my pallys armory for the spec) as it is makes threat trivial in heroics while also producing more dps than Seal of vengeance(remember to swap back to Veng for bosses that will live more than 20sec).
As far as pulling, one thing I like to do, is look at a group of mobs.
Someone mentioned the H-UK pull, so that's something easy to go with.
if I see the mobs like this:
AB----CDE (Note that there's a large space between B and C)
I'll run up to A and B, using Hand of Reckoning on A. I'll quickly target C, and throw my shield so that it hits C, D and E.
While I'm doing that, I'm dropping Consecrate on the ground once I've chosen where to tank them. I'll judge mob B; and then I'll switch targets to the mob that should die first, usually a caster, healer, or the most dangerous mob. This is the mob that will get smacked with the shield. Once they are all together, that's when I start using hammers.
By this time, the only thing that could possibly pull the mobs off me is some ****** skillstorm warrior who decides to drop Bladestorm+Sweeping Strikes 3 seconds into combat, or an Uber-Mage who decides the first 2 seconds is a *great* time for a huge blizzard, or somecrap.
Edited, Jan 25th 2010 5:06pm by Zariamnk
Someone mentioned the H-UK pull, so that's something easy to go with.
if I see the mobs like this:
AB----CDE (Note that there's a large space between B and C)
I'll run up to A and B, using Hand of Reckoning on A. I'll quickly target C, and throw my shield so that it hits C, D and E.
While I'm doing that, I'm dropping Consecrate on the ground once I've chosen where to tank them. I'll judge mob B; and then I'll switch targets to the mob that should die first, usually a caster, healer, or the most dangerous mob. This is the mob that will get smacked with the shield. Once they are all together, that's when I start using hammers.
By this time, the only thing that could possibly pull the mobs off me is some ****** skillstorm warrior who decides to drop Bladestorm+Sweeping Strikes 3 seconds into combat, or an Uber-Mage who decides the first 2 seconds is a *great* time for a huge blizzard, or somecrap.
Edited, Jan 25th 2010 5:06pm by Zariamnk
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