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Little tips we might not all think of!
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demaratos
no offense but this is just common sense...but you are right some people dont use it. i am a prot warr. and it really does help to know your skills and use them in the right situations.
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Lorkin
I'd suggest you compile a list of tips people post here at the top. Also if demaratos can delete his post, you'll have 2 posts to work with. And fix your outlining, the stairs effect doesn't look too good.
I'll toss in one. Tanks rarely use
Intervene
during a fight to reduce threat.
Vigilance
only goes so far, but if you can effectively use Intervene on a party member, it can reduce the aggro of a strong dps'er that doesn't have an aggro dump.
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ZoraLink
@Tycho07:
I made that mistake by accident early in my heroics career; one day I tanked Violet Hold forgetting I was in battle stance the whole time and I was a terribad tank wiping the group and causing everyone to leave after first or second boss. I was a sad panda.
I haven't tried it lately but if you have a high damage dealing squishy dps in your group pulling aggro, overgearing the instance as a tank aint gonna do sh!t to offset all that threat.
He's referring mainly to when someone is rage starved as a tank in a heroic. Clearly if someone is pulling threat off you, you're going to want to stay in defensive stance.
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Porcell
Not really a tip but:
Battle stance: If you heavily overgear an instance, in addition to stacking block value, using battle stance allows you to deal more damage and build more rage. Although you lose some threat, shield block, revenge and enrage, you still have battle stance's 10% arp bonus, +5% damage generally, shield slam, devastate, hc strike, cleave, overpower (if attacks get dodged for some strange reason), thunderclap, spell reflect, retaliation and shockwave and take more incoming damage thereby building more rage.
Why do this? Nearly all 5 mans are an aoe fest and this goes towards solving the overgearing issue, provides greater damage with almost no loss of utility. Also, shield block can be cast before switching stance as required.
I can't say I'd ever recommend switching to Battle stance while tanking. Because of
Improved Defensive Stance
, switching to Battle stance will net you +10% ArP but a -4.5% damage.
If you really want to increase damage in heroics, put on a couple pieces of DPS gear and drop your Stamina trinkets (no one needs 50K health in heroics) and use your DPS trinkets.
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Happyfisherman
You can queue Heroic Strike while using instant attacks.
You can wait for the last second of Taste for Blood, then use Overpower and TfB will tick nearly instantly.
Spell Reflect reflects only 1 missile of Arcane Missile.
You can Charge uphills. This is pretty useful when zerging graveyards in WSG and you have annoying casters on the ledge.
Vigilance doesn't only reduce treath by 10%, it also gives you a free Taunt when the Vigilance'd target is hit. I believe AoE triggers this free Taunt too, so if you are in a very add and AoE intensive fight, Vigilance someone!
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