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Need tankng help with casters.
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Badaccus
Shockwave is my fav ability for casters, having a caster to the side and aiming a warm cozy stun over there is always nice. If you can see the next cast coming reflect it, or talented heroic throw as OP said, casters aren't that hard, just need to learn to have one eye on them, the other on everything else.
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djtakuya
Dux posted a series of videos on Prot Warrior tanking, during one of which he explained his way for dealing with multiple casters. It seemed to me that he said in a group of melee mobs with two casters, he used Heroic Throw on one, and kept hitting Spell Reflect to keep aggro on it, and pulled the melee mobs in with the other caster. If you want to see for yourself,
this is where he posted the links to his videos.
I highly recommend his videos they are amazingly simple and helpful.
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Porcell
Dux posted a series of videos on Prot Warrior tanking, during one of which he explained his way for dealing with multiple casters. It seemed to me that he said in a group of melee mobs with two casters, he used Heroic Throw on one, and kept hitting Spell Reflect to keep aggro on it, and pulled the melee mobs in with the other caster. If you want to see for yourself,
this is where he posted the links to his videos.
I highly recommend his videos they are amazingly simple and helpful.
This is the normal way to deal with casters, a tactic used often in the old Forge of Souls.
Now in the days of CC, casters if an excellent opportunity for CC. Since you know the caster (or hunter mobs in HoO) will stay still and shoot, you can mark it as the CC target. Pull the melee mobs and the caster/hunter will stay put, away from the action, and be safely CCed.
You can also utilize Line of Sight pulls. I use LoS for the second, third, and fourth trash pulls in HoO to group everything up.
You also described ranged-tanking in your post; using a combination of spell reflect and taunt to keep a caster on you. This works as long as you don't have strong AoE or someone direct damaging that caster.
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djtakuya
I feel I should correct myself. Dux doesn't have Gag Order, so he didn't Heroic Throw, what he started with was a pack of five mobs, two of whom were casters. What he does have is Blood and Thunder, so he Charged the closest caster, applied Rend, dragged over to halfway between the current cluster of four mobs (3M, 1C) and the lone caster off in the distance and Thunder Clapped. The point being that he already has a battle plan for mob groups with multiple casters and he knew what to do when he came upon one. I don't know how you would face and analyze the problem you're having, but it might help to go back to the basics in those videos and practice some fundamentals.
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