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First experiences as a DK tank
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sushigaski
I personally haven't tried tanking lower level dungeons as a DK (started tanking at 80).
However, these experiences remind me a lot about how things were with my paladin while leveling through the dungeon queue from 20 - 70. The only way I found to get around the problems mentioned was to have a healer I knew I could trust (my wife was playing a priest, and she is quite a good healer) and then pulling everything before the DPS could get there, and out-dpsing them with consecrate + holy shied & shield spike. It was really funny to see my damage at the top of every single meter throughout the leveling process, all the way until I started Northrend dungeons.
It is too bad we don't have a block of any sort as DKs, that makes the dungeon finder so much easier to handle.
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revilfour
//Agree after getting usto blood tanking it is quite easy. the 3 things that really %^&* me off about a noob, are
#1 A DPS or a Tank who has half dps gear and half tank gear
#2 very undergeared tanks yelling at ppl cuz they get kicked out a 25 icc group
#3 plain and simple noobs $%^& me off about noobs
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falcov
You forgot to mention hunters who are incapable of using anything other than tab to target mobs, and pull whole levels of dungeons this way (gogo entire Deadmines ship in ONE pull) =P
Wut! Heh, I have to admit I'm guilty of that. If nothing else, I've never done THAT bad of a pull on my hunter.
And yeah the quality of DK tanks while leveling is.... abysmal would be an understatement. Please continue tanking, remember every run you do as tank you likely spare the healer (and even the dps) from at least one clueless idiot =)
While I will admit that low level DK tanks have somewhat of a warranted bad reputation before they prove themselves to be a good tank, bad tanks before 80 are not limited simply to DKs. I was leveling my mage earlier tonight and went into UK only to find a group that is the epitome of why I normally only level tanks and healers. The run starts off with the ret pally mindlessly walking up toward the first group of mobs (thot it was a dk tank before I saw the mana bar) before the pulls had even started.. eventually the druid tank tries to take control of the situation, but never gets one of the mobs off the pally, the other which eventually gravitated to the warlock. Needless to say, we didn't make it much past Keleseth before I said "this isn't worth it" and left. It's really sad when an arcane mage only pulling maybe 900 dps on a single target is pulling aggro.
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woohaa
from 60-70 imo it doesn't really matter which spec your playing. the only class i've seen pull agro off a decent dk is a ret paly with full heirlooms. dnd does so much threat at lvl 60 it's ridiculous. once you hit northrend is when it gets interesting. unless you have decent tanking gear going into northrend which most tanks don't have. tanking 6+ mobs is usually a bad idea. and watching the heirloom'd alts pulling agro in UK is hilarious. i saw a rogue get 2shotted cause i pulled...dropped dnd and he died before my next gcd. some people can't wait to start dpsing and have to learn the hard way the limits of a dks threat.
sometimes people with heirlooms can be asses. for one they need to do the most dps no matter what. they also think they know everything there is to know about wow. unfortunately alot of them forget what it's like to not be 80. i love when someone's like....why don't you taunt the mob off me. uhh well i don't have taunt yet? or why didn't you pull them off me? uhh why'd you run in before i did? as many noob tanks as there are...there's wayyy more idiot dps out there. be patient and try to laugh about it. good to see someone that did their homework first.
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Thror
DK low level tanking is faceroll
Lay down D&D
DG caster
put the diseases up
Prestiliance
Blood boil when ever possible.
Tanking TBC instances with ANY class is faceroll...
And that is actually much more than a warrior, or druid has to do.
@wartu: haha, yes, the PuG players can really be heavilly retarded. You will get used to that in time. I do not really understand why you put that paragraph up there into the "troll" tags, it seemed like a normal statement to me.
Umm, but also... when you said "dps needing on tanking gear". Even though i do not really like what i am about to say, keep in mind that "tanking" pieces like
these boots
can easilly become a huge upgrade for a dps character, simply because they have sockets... and to be honest, Defense is not so shabby for DPS leveling either. There are people (like me) who would be able to put two +20 strength gems into those. But, heh, since i have never leveled a dps before, i too have been outrolled on those boots by dps as a tank.
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