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Lowbie warrior wishing to tank - asking for help
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27271
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Post by
karlusdavius
que your white attack up before you get there so it lands asap. You still have charge, so use it to get rage at the start and que up heroic strike. You should be pretty ahead after that, should be fairly easy to keep aggro.
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Post by
Tiemujin
Throw/shoot at the nearest mob, then charge the caster and revenge him, turn and hit TC. Queue Cleave. Switch to a 3rd mob and sunder it. Cleave goes off. Switch to mob 2 and sunder it. Queue Cleave. Switch to caster, Revenge him again. Keep hitting TC as you switch targets, cleave, sunder, and revenge.
No warbringer yet, shoot will put him in combat. At this level, TC and demo shout are your only true AOE threat builders. If you have tanked with the other tanking classes you will probably find AOE warrior tanking to be a bit more challenging, but def doable and fun (especially when you get shockwave).
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Post by
jafar
I recently started leveling a warrior and decided to go prot and level only trough the random dungeon LFG (the only quest I'm doing are the dungeon ones). Two things that made my life a whole lot easier tanking at low levels (currently lvl 44) are improved thunderclap (really helps get a head start on multi mob aggro, then you can tab - cleave/revenge) and, probably the most important, the Charge / Defensive Stance macro
/cast Charge
/stopcasting
/cast Defensive Stance; Battle Stance
You can press it a second time after the battle is over to get you back in battle stance and get ready to charge the next group.
It has the annoying downside to put you early in defensive stance if you try to charge a out of range mob, and if you accidentally press it while tanking it will put You in battle stance.
To take full benefit from this macro I recomend picking up
Improved Charge
and
Tactical Mastery
I
strongly
recomend that You pick both imp charge and tactical mastery instead of trying to go down the prot tree on such early levels.
Post by
Nipah
My charge macro is:
#showtooltip
/cast Charge; Defensive Stance; Battle Stance;
Pretty much does what jafar's does, but I don't have the problem of it being wonky when I'm not in combat... so it may be more useful I suppose.
Otherwise, once you get
Stance Mastery
, you'll keep that 10~ rage from the charge, and can then charge into combat, quickly hit the macro again (so it puts you into Def. Stance BEFORE you melee hit the mob), and then have something like 10-15 rage already set for a Thunder Clap.
Personally, my little tank is using both Thunder Clap glyphs (
Glyph of Thunder Clap
&
Glyph of Resonating Power
) because TC is your BEST way to get AoE threat until you get your full arsenal in the higher levels... hell, I think its still damn useful even then.
edit: Also, liberal use of
Bloodrage
is a good idea as well. That extra 20 rage instantly can help when some "helpful" DPS butt pulls a second group while you're sitting at 5 rage.
My tank is:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Sen%27jin&cn=Taqu
Post by
cosmicguen
If you're struggling to drag casters into the fray, don't forget your
shield bash
.
It's completely possible (and very useful) to have both ranks of
gag order
at your level, so I'd suggest it if you don't already have it. Make casters chase you, not the other way around ;)
Charge your chosen mob, drop your TC (cleave if you have the rage), mosey on over to that caster that doesn't want to huddle and slap a silence on him. You've got 3 seconds to position the whole pack now, and if that means running across to a second caster...no matter, the silenced one will chase you, ineffectually beating on you with a stick.
Or, of course, that old favourite...LoS pulls wherever possible :)
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Nipah
The only problem with LoS pulling is telling your group to stay behind the wall while you pull, and having them run face first into the group the second you throw an axe at the mob.
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Post by
Thror
My lvl 50 warrior is always on top on the dps meters, even when there's a couple of BoA geared chars in the party ;>
I can't understand how people have problems with aoe threat in the early levels as a warrior. Just glyph for aoe and you're all good to go.
I can tell you how. Rage comes in SLOW at low levels. I love how someone on the top of this topic went on like "charge that guy, hit that guy with that, interrupt that guy, disarm that guy, cleave (LOL cleave, with its rage cost)". Seriously, i am glad when i get enough rage for a Revenge, and an interrupt.
Some people also talk about Bloodrage as if its cooldown was 5 seconds. Some people also think that a warrior without Warbringer gets to use Charge often. Those probably havent seen idiotic dps chain pulling pretty much the entire instance from the beginning to the end. Corridors in scarlet monastery are the best example.
edit: However, i also top the damage done charts with my warrior anyway. If only Cleave and Shield Bash didnt have zomg crazy rage costs, it would be even better.
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