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Heroic Tanking Techniques Needed
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Azur3
As you managed to tank ToC HC I'd say you are already quite a good tank.
With ranged mobs I usually pull the mobs with AS and the run to the ranged and start 96969 rotation. If there are two ranged in a pull then run to one, kill it and run to the other (keep threat on the melee mobs with AOE dmg). You might want to mark the targets so that dps doesn't take aggro from you on the melee mobs.
Spellcasters get silenced by AS so they come running to you.
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Dunsinane
What do I do about ranged mobs? Should I grab the others and run to them? I need advice on what you experienced tanks do.
One of two things, usually.
If there is no patrol nearby and I can safely place the fight where the ranged/casters are, then I pitch my shield right into the group and run to them.
If there is a patrol nearby and I can't safely place the fight where the ranged/casters are, then I pitch my shield right into the group and run around a corner out of their line of sight, so they have to come to me. There are only a few pulls like this in WotLK, but it was much more common in BC.
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zoomie
If there is a patrol nearby and I can't safely place the fight where the ranged/casters are, then I pitch my shield right into the group and run around a corner out of their line of sight, so they have to come to me. There are only a few pulls like this in WotLK, but it was much more common in BC.
What he said.
I also do this because it gets everything clumped together, inside concecrate range, all targets can be hit by avengers shield and hammer of the righteous, and you shouldn't have to move anywhere. Though nowadays it is a bit more common to pull and step around a corner to LOS, only to see the other 4 group members run the other way and run into the group and start attacking.
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Proky
Spellcasters get silenced by AS so they come running to you
But they move so slowly. I wish there was a minor glyph to remove the "slow walking" effect from AS.
yep thats true, its sometimes annoying, you are fighting and silence that mage, but until he comes to range of your consecration, he start casting spells from range again :(
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pezz
The other thing you can try is to do Hand of Reckoning before you attack anything for the damage, and maybe try getting an Exo off now before they get to you (if you have time, now that there's a cast time on it) and making sure that all of the melee mobs are about 10 to 15 yards from the ranged mob. If your DPS faceroll AoEs like they all do, the caster should be out of range of those AoEs, and your healer won't manage to catch up on aggro if you hit the caster with AS and Exo before the fight actually starts. Then once the melee mobs are all down you can just run up to the caster and tank him like any other mob.
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