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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Single & AoE tanking as Warrior - 4.1.0

So here am continuing my mini guide for tanking as a warrior to read the 1st post click (here) ,


1- Single Target tanking : that mostly goes for bosses

a - We 1st want to use our ability that does the highest threat , because DPSers will start nuking , and so we don't want to have zero threat the moment the DPS starts. So before we charge to our target , we use Shield Block , which will increase our Shield Slam damage and so more threat . then we charge to our target and directly hit our Shield Slam.

b - Then we need to use our Rend , so we start getting ToT ( Threat over Time) . and whenever its about to expire , we do not re-apply it using Rend , but instead we use Thunder Clap which gives extra damage and threat plus re-applies Rend to our target due to our talent build.

c - Then we start using Devastate , this is our main tanking ability , as by stacking Sunder Armor , we get more threat as our hits will deal more damage due to the reduced armor of our targets .


d - Now if we have extra rage , we want to dump some of it using Heroic Strike , it does pretty impressive damage.


e - Then by doing the upper rotation our Thunder Struck talent should have stacked to 3 , so now we can use Shockwave which will deal increased damage duel to Thunder Struck talent.

- And use Shield Wall every while to help the healers as you get reduced damage.


Summery : Charge > Shield Block > Shield Slam > Rend > Devastate > Heroic Strike > Thunder Clap > Shockwave.


2-AoE Tanking :

a- Our Charge for sure , for extra starting threat after using shout.

b- after charging between a pack of mobs , we apply Rend to one target.

c- we use our Thunder clap , for some AoE threat , and to spread our rend in AoE range and as well for reapplying our Rend on our targets.

d- we try to move the mobs in a way so we line them up infront of us , so when we hit Shockwave , it hits them all.

e- Hit our Cleave , that incase it does any crits it will cause our targets to bleed.

f- we start spamming Devastate while tabbing between our targets , while we should make sure that we have Glyph Of Sunder Armor , which will apply Sunder Armor to another random target while we are tabing each hit , so we stack Sunder Armor on all of the mobs in a short period of time while tabbing .


Summery : Charge > Rend > Thunder Clap > Shockweave > Cleave > Sunder Armor.


Thats it for now , next thing will be what stats to pick for a Warrior tank ? =)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

You didnt mention anything about revenge in either rotation.

Anwar Fazza said...

Aye , dunno how i missed it , thanks for notifying me , well When we are tanking one target such as a boss, we still have Shield Slam in a higher priorety than Revenge , but encase of AoE tanking , we want to use Revenge more often than Shield Slam because it hits more than one target due to the "Improved Revenge" talent that will allow it to hit another target for 50% of the the initial damage.

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