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Tanking as a druid
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Thror
Gonna be the same with druid... for AoE at least. Single target rotation only uses like 4 abilities, but i find it interesting enough.
Pallies are gonna need some more work to hold AoE threat... but it is still not that hard.
The classes, by ammount of available tanking abilities, go like this... from hardest to easiest.
Warrior > DK > Paladin > Druid
Does not mean tanking with a druid is boring though, at least for me it is not. I love my druid.
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LookOut
you're thinking hc dungeons. Yes, in 5mans almost all I do is spam my maul+swipe macro. But I also charge in, hit FFF at the same time, organize the mobs in front of me while running backwards towards the next pack (the thing I love about swipe as opposed to consecration or d&d muahahaha), ...
Also, you say you do consecration and avenger's shield on your pally and then eat popcorn, but we still need to spam that button! (but ofc, we can eat popcorn with one hand ^^).
Edit: obviously I know you're only 50 and can't really zerg through dungeons quite yet, just showing you what it'll be like when you hit 80 :) After you overgear the dungeons. By a lot.
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etrin
Lookout said it best for pally and druid. I got my druid gear tanking 5 mans on my bear last Dec and there were some dungeons that gave me fits while most were easy as heck.
BUT back then everyone was running heroics and it was not uncommon to get in groups where everyone was 5K gs and wanted to do it right. Your swipe will do your aoe. I just pull with FFF and a macroed swipe-maul and profit.
I do feel the days of BIG TIME heroic stomping are coming to a close.
Now I am working on a pally and it seems that every dungeon now has at least 1 blue 80 who has never been there an epic geared played that is watching oprah and a couple of people looking at drops when you are still fighting.
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LookOut
dont forget the lack of getting def capped, but i heard that will be altered in some next patch.
defense will be removed from gear and come from talents for all tank specs in Cataclysm.
Basically what they did for druids in WotLK.
Post by
Lathe
Don't forget the extra fun of scaring your healer as a Druid tank. Cat form, Charge, hear healer gasp, shift to bear while still flying, resume normal tanking duties. As a side benefit, you have the mobs facing away from the group, and you're perfectly positioned (unless you're in an ICC5 with all the split caster pulls).
On the other hand, if you have a lot of lag, you're paying for repairs after the run.
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curlymon
Being most of the way to a boss with a healer at 80%+ mana screaming at you to slow down is a beautiful thing :P
I kind of feel a bit bad about it but when a healer leaves a run that has no wipes, no lose mobs going crazy or any issues with the dps for the sole reason that you are pulling too fast? It's priceless :P
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Thror
Being most of the way to a boss with a healer at 80%+ mana screaming at you to slow down is a beautiful thing :P
I kind of feel a bit bad about it but when a healer leaves a run that has no wipes, no lose mobs going crazy or any issues with the dps for the sole reason that you are pulling too fast? It's priceless :P
Oh... dont make me start on retarded healers that are unable to move. First they are all like oh hey guys i gotta do my girlfriend so i have 5 minutes lets do this fast kay? And then they get all &*!@#y when you chain pull the entire HoL.
What cracks me up the most is retarded healers that cant catch up in the passage in CoS. I have wiped there once recently. It was an otherwise absolutely perfect and flawless run, just in the passage i suddenly fell dead, and the healer was like "dont pullz so fast le omg". I would totally beat him with a stick.
edit: Also speculations about Chill of the Thrones effect on different tanking classes are totally stupid.
STOP #$%^ING LOOKING AT THE DAMNED DEBUFF.
Week after week after week tanks go into ICC and tank things and dont give a &*!@ about the debuff, and week after week stupid people keep talking about how tanks are gimped by it. Give me a goddamn break, it only gets more and more annoying.
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LookOut
He's right though. Forget about the debuff, I'm tired about hearing everyone saying "it's better for this class than the other class".
Although I have to admit, usually they say druids are affected the most, and doomrouge says the opposite xD
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etrin
man healers get no respect. Last night I was tanking and running some guildies thru pit, they wanted the dagger and every Fing caster was standing in the green on second boss. DUH move you moron.
Healer has to heal, remove poisons, and the like and still move and watch other things.
I heal a lot and most people are just morons.
Tanks think that a healer just stand and spam heals on them.
DPS just stands and thinks that their deeps is all they have to do.
healers can't win.
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hashmel
The only class affected more by CotT is DK tanks because RS's availability relies on their avoidance but the added effect on them is quite minor, other than that all tanks are affected relatively equally in that they have 20% less dodge.
CotT doesn't change how tanks itemize, it doesn't change how bosses act, and it doesn't change who'll have the most avoidance out of 1 of each tank class/spec going from just outside to stepping into ICC.
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