Comments for Tank like a girl

Comment on Blogging Resolutions by Caboose

Caboose — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:20:13 +0000

I’ve been reading since that post on TankSpot and I like hearing about your exploits in WoW! I’m happy to see your still going (healing or not ;-D)

Keep up the good work

Comment on Blogging Resolutions by admin

admin — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:04:20 +0000

I am currently running with LHW, Earthliving and Water Mastery for 5-mans. Once she dips into the wonderful world of raid healing, she’ll get the CH glyph.

Comment on Blogging Resolutions by Tryna

Tryna — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:02:23 +0000

That’s golden chains of SEXY healing, to quote the ‘tox. But yes, Chain Heal is sooo op and fun (especially if you have the glyph that lets it hop to another person).

Comment on Blogging Resolutions by Tankette

Tankette — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:53:37 +0000

I've had a good time reading your posts for the last several months. Thanks for blogging! Tankette´s last blog post..War Bears for all

Comment on Another week, another update by D

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:43:21 +0000

When I first dinged 80 with my guildmates, we ran regular 80 instances and crafted some gear until we each had at least 1 epic gear a piece, with our ret pally doing the highest dps at about 1500, and we jauntily went into Heroic Nexus.

Utter fail. That plant boss was fine, but that elemental boss creamed us.

I now pull about 1700-1800 dps in instances and our ret pally does about 2200 dps, and Heroic Nexus is a breeze but some, like Heroic Gundrak, are still tough.

Last night I went with a mage doing 1000 dps and a DK doing about 1100 dps, and Heroic Nexus was hard (we wiped a LOT - some fights are dps checks but some are just stupid-checks, like the optional boss in Heroic Nexus) but finally made it through. Our tank had 23k health unbuffed and 544 defense, and our healer is a tree dr00d with 600 mana regen.

I’d say aim for at least a 1500 dps average between your three dpsers, and you are good for Heroic UK, Heroic Nexus, and Heroic Drak’tharon Keep (surprisingly one of the easiest Heroics). If one dps is not pulling over 1300 or so, though, you’re probably effed in the a when it comes to the harder heroics (Old Kingdom on Heroic mode is insane).

I’d also recommend the good 540 defense for tanking Heroics — I don’t know much about tanking (I’m a shadow priest, heh) but that seems to be the magic number I hear being thrown around — tanks seem to die very fast on some of those harder-hitting bosses, especially the last boss in UK, which is unsurprisingly the easiest Heroic.

When I was specced holy and trying to heal Heroic Gundrak, I promptly got thrown out for my 450 mana regen and 1400 bonus spellpower — apparently, your healer needs to have a nice chunk of both to be efficient (I did keep running out of mana, admittedly I did not yet have a healing set and was wearing a lot of +hit gear .. doh!)

Sadly, one person can’t carry the group — I’m sure you are an excellent tank, but you’ll sadly need to demand certain things out of the rest of your group — save yourself the repair bills and don’t take dpsers that can’t crack 1200 dps on boss fights (especially hunters, mages, rogues and death knights, who are top of the dps classes at the moment). If you’re doing more dps than the dpsers in your group, something is seriously wrong with the dpsers.

(But obviously, with skilled players, you can get away with much less than 1500 dps in most of the heroics - lots of those fights are just idiot tests, and pugging will unsurprisingly net you a ton of idiots.)

D´s last blog post..Back to the darkness, and guild troubles.

Comment on Warrior priorities by Tankette

Tankette — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:30:39 +0000

That is an interesting idea but I use my mouse wheel a fair amount to zoom in or out on the camera. Not sure I could live without it. Tankette´s last blog post..Naxx so far

Comment on Warrior priorities by Tankette

Tankette — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:29:29 +0000

Cool. I'll try that out and report back. Tankette´s last blog post..Naxx so far

Comment on Warrior priorities by Caboose

Caboose — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:19:45 +0000

I speced into the DW spec and I feel that my DPS is much higher now. I also use Cuncussion blow and SW on EVERY COOLDOWN. It boost so much I also go out of my way to move closer to the bosses hitbox so I make sure Shockwave hits (but I make sure not to turn it!)

Comment on Another week, another update by Caboose

Caboose — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:15:43 +0000

I was having the same problem with bad dps. When we first started running heroics (I usually run with the guild) but sometimes no one wants to do heroics and you have to jump in to LFG. When I tank I’m very agressive and lately I’ve been pulling 2k-2.2k dps on boss fights (hero popped) I coudlnt really ask for a better group. Enhancment shaman, Fury Warrior, Ret pally and healing druid. But when you get into a pug where dps is a bit… Slow. Its hard to get things down with groups that you usually have good dps with.

I’ve run H. VH and didnt get passed the first 3 portals because people just couldn’t get the mobs down. But I ran it with DPS who were able to push the better dps and we got it down really easy.

Comment on Still alive! by Kasshadow

Kasshadow — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:28:30 +0000

Well ive got to say, Wotlk Raids are amazing.
The choice with 10-man or 25-man raids, a Pure PvP raid, specifically the different raid options with OS (one two or three mini-bosses). It certainly offers a wide choice “Humm shall we concentrate on 10-man?, shall we raid 25-man? or do both?” there’s a lot of choice in this one. Now back to topic with the War tank/dps. DK tanks, Druid tanks and Pali tanks still out DPS war’s, now id agree that a buff is not needed but rather a nurf on there behalf? im not sure I feel though that a Nurf would make Wotlk feel ‘Epic’

How do you feel about this?