Comments on: And This Is Why There Are No Tanks…

By: Dear Ghostcrawler, I Promise I’m Trying! I Really Am! « Falling Leaves and Wings

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:31:35 +0000

[...] did a post awhile back when I first decided that I would try tanking, and with my experiences on tanking my [...]

By: focus ffs « Righteous Orbs

focus ffs « Righteous Orbs — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 13:32:16 +0000

[...] of tanks, I’ve linked to DPS perspectives, healer perspectives, and here’s Beru’s rather hair raising experiences of learning to tank in LFG. Ye gods, she’s [...]

By: Even

Even — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:22:41 +0000

Beru I found your Blog As for as holding aggro in a 5-man ..do what I do let them die and find another PUG

By: karees

karees — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:41:09 +0000

This also struck a cord with me. I tried tanking with my DK. The abuse I received finally came to be too much. I threw on a couple DPS pieces, switched to my DPS/levelling spec and started going to town as a DPS. I’ve been getting much better drops and haven’t really had any problems. I’ll have to agree that tanking is the most thankless experience I’ve ever had.

By: Korenwolf

Korenwolf — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:07:44 +0000

I’m harsh on one tank, me. Others I will judge based on the entire run, and where I think it’s appropriate give some advice on how to improve. To be honest it shouldn’t need to be said that if the DPS pulls they should run to the tank, it’s rule#1. Get to the tank, stop attacking what you’ve been hitting, pop whatever aggro dumps you have and leg it as soon as you’ve lost aggro.

By: SlikRX/Balthazario

SlikRX/Balthazario — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:38:44 +0000

Pally tanking may be easy, though I’m still learning, so I can’t say. I don’t have a DK, let alone a DK tank, but my feeling so far, is that it’s gotta be the hardest, simply because I see SO many DK tanks that are struggling. (well geared DKs) When I see that we have a DK tank, I will immediately start throttling back my DPS. (plus giving them a 5 second head start)

I don’t think I’ve seen ANY Pally or Warrior tanks truly struggle in the PuGs I’ve run (well, except for me lol) Not sure why that is…

(Bear tanks are more hit-or-miss)

Regardless, I will only tank a couple of “chosen” heroics (CoS and VH) and only with a pocket healer. I just don’t know the fights well enough. I *am* working my way through the regular dungeons, just so I have the chance to learn how things work…

Thus far, I haven’t had too much grief, some really good healers, and mostly uneventful. (thank goodness!)

By: Guthammer

Guthammer — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:40:40 +0000

This is a great post–its been so long since I was a noob tank (2005 in WoW, 5 years of tanking in EQ before that) that I think to myself, doing this crap for the first time must suck–but as always the imagination fails.

When ever I pop last stand I hit our 30% regen skill (who’s name I never remember–frenzied regen). And while popping cool downs, I try not to stack Last Stand and Shield Wall at the same time–things have to be really bad for that to be happening.

Funnily enough, as my 70 warrior alt (as opposed to Guthammer, my 80 warrior main) I keep on forgetting to move out of that big hit. I have no clue what that rogue was talking about on the whirlwinds.

And if you have anything to add, I just posted something at my blog about becoming a tank–I would love your insights.

By: Para

Para — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:09:09 +0000

Ended up here via a link on the Righteous Orbs site and your story really struck a cord with me. I’ve tanked, healed and dpsed longer than I can specify and I recognise myself in your story. Recently dinged my death knight to 80 using the lfg to tank. I even had guildies drag my tanking ass through the icc 5mans on normal (when I was 79) and God was that an experience.

Keep going, you’ll find tanking more rewarding once you start beating the foulmouthed dps on the meters as well as when your healers start telling you they’re dpsing because they have nothing to heal.

You sound like a healers dream really, My main holydin prays every day to get a tank who’s polite in the way you appear to have been in your story. Maybe one day I’ll run in to you, but if not I’ll settle for reassuring any new tanks I come across.

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:00:06 +0000

I am up to 75 now, and have tanked all instances at my level save Gundrak so far. I’m getting better at it, but I’m also getting a little more comfortable letting people know when they are doing something that is making it harder for me to do my job.

I have also decided that there is a special place in hell for paladins that like to live on their consecrate button before I have control of the mobs in a large pull. I had a paladin in VH (where I was perpetually rage starved ) that would consecrate before things even spawned. I politely asked him not to do so, but he ignored me. So I just made it a game to pick up the mobs and then drag them out of his consecrate everytime he dropped it >=) Hope that helped your dps there buddy!

By: Beruthiel

Beruthiel — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:57:04 +0000

I definately think that all it would take is one or two bad experiences at a low level to make someone go “screw this”!