Comments on: Where to point the last few blood tank talent points

By: Gravity

Gravity — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:57:22 +0000

I agree, will get around to this eventually.

By: Kåne

Kåne — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:47:13 +0000

Great chart.
One minor criticism- I don’t know if I am seeing impaired or what, but your “green” is more like “off-yellow”- maybe yellow and blue, red, or really any color that isn’t almost yellow would be better.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 04:40:21 +0000

Frost is easier for 5-man heroics, but perhaps you are not positioning the target AOE mobs in front of you adequately. It's not expertise causing this problem. You can also use IBF on big pulls, AMS if you've got magic damage and mind freeze to interrupt casters too (to reduce the damage you take). If you do get a 5-man/AOE spec, go with any of the frost builds I've listed.

By: sonic

sonic — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:54:56 +0000

could it be the when tanking a mob they are around me and I just need to position them in front of me? other than vamp blood what other CD’s should I be using? Is my expertise killing me? Again, I have NO problem on single Bosses – it’s AoE that seems I need some “over-healing”.
I’m thinking about dual-spec to frost tank for AOE and heroics? (no gear change just need to dual weapon right?) What frost spec would be the best to counter this (54-8-9) blood spec?

By: Gravity

Gravity — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:36:42 +0000

Hi Sonic, firstly if you are at 535+ defence skill in a 5-man heroic you cannot get crit. So you're probably not using the right term, maybe you mean something hits you hard?

In terms of being hard to heal, your stats are in the normal range for 5-mans, so I must conclude either it's your technique or the healer being wrong. For technique, make sure you use all the tank cooldowns at your disposal and are not being hit in the back, etc.

By: Sonic

Sonic — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:55:06 +0000

I LOVE this spec. Have a few questions.
- I’m def capped / parry & dodge at 20% / expertise 16 (working to get it to 20) / 30k health
- I have no problem holding aggro or generating threat
- had a healer tell me I was the hardest tank he had ever healed in heroics (said it wasn’t bad – it wasn’t boring)

What am I missing? I know I have to heal myself sometimes, seems like I get hit by crits a lot. If I do die it’s on a mob that everyone crits me at the same time.

By: Gravity

Gravity — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:54:16 +0000

This is a tanking site. There is only one presence.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:38:26 +0000

and what presense do you stay in?

By: Bart Roberts

Bart Roberts — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:16:25 +0000

Thanks so much ,,,,and this by far the best site i have found that i truly understand what ur talkig about …lol

Tanked ToC last night with 2 noobs (one lev78) was a breeze,,,healer done good but i went through the warrior WW and never moved off (hehhehe) had to press the good ol runtap/vampiric macro (huge heal)…

One other thing i use should i get in HP trouble is Death Pack…8k-9k HP instant..WONDERFUL…stuff…

By: shax

shax — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:13:42 +0000

in general single target rotation is
IT-PS-DS-HS-HS
DS-HS-HS-HS-HS-RPDump

for multiple targets
DnD-IT-PS-Pest
tab (for next target) HS(or BB)-DS-Pest-BB-RPDump

but rotations for tanks arent as fixed as for DDs since you have to react on certain events during fights, popping cooldowns, taunting adds etc etc and you cannot straightly keep to your rotations
you should check elitistjerks.com for further infos