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Saphiria
Normally my bear spec is used for tanking silly things like heroics and ToC, but due to the lack to tanks now in my guild, I'm tanking ICC10 heroic. Tanking Surfang I've always hated cause all my bear abilities cept for lacerate hits more than one target, and when adds come out my treat lowers soo much that the other tank almost pulls off me. A guildie said to switch out Glyph of maul, just for that fight, l and i was looking at Glyphs, and I thought maybe it would be better to completely switch out maul for Glyph of SI since why i need maul to hit more than 1 thing if i'm tanking a boss
Post by
Thror
You are doing heroics? That means you do serious business.
Glyph of Maul is extremely good for many bosses. Putricide, Princes, Sindragosa, Valithria, Deathwhisper, Airship, Lich King. Also invaluable for thrash. The only fight where it is actually BAD is Saurfang. There are two ways to do this.
First, get a stack of Maul glyphs and a stack of Glowl glyphs. When you are about to fight Saurfang, switch the Maul for Growl, when you finish, switch it back. You will be okay with this for 10 or 20 weeks, which is a lot. I suppose, since you do heroic raids, that you have some cheap access to glyphs (i personally can get any sane ammount of any glyph ingame pretty fast).
Second, when the beasts are about to spawn, stop using Maul for a while. I do this sometimes, because i do not always remember to switch the glyphs. In this case, yes, you do lower aggro, but dude! You are doing frigging HEROICS, tell your stupid offtank to get OMEN and learn how to use it, its not that hard.
Also Swipe is totally harmless on Saurfang. It does minial damage to the beasts and the DPS will overaggro the Swipe damage before the beasts even turn to you.
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Post by
Thror
You can remove a glyph during combat. I do it all the time when I forget to switch on Saurfang, Rotface(strat we use leaves big oozes to spawn in melee) and Princes (I usually tank Keleseth; glyphed maul kills my orbs faster. :/). Of course it's annoying to try and quickly open your talents, go to glyphs, shift right click then hit accept while you're trying to tank, buuut when it's detrimental to have it, gotta do what you gotta do.
I love learning new things. Thanks for that tip, bro.
Also on Princes, i usually tank Taldaram + Valanar, so Glyph of Maul is pretty good there for dual-target threat.
Post by
bwirum
I usually swap maul for growl before saurfang, then back before putricide. Works well. SI and FR are always there.
On BC I usually have either Taldaram on 25 or Talda + Valanar on 10, so the maul glyph doesn't yield any problems there.
Post by
LookOut
Princes (I usually tank Keleseth; glyphed maul kills my orbs faster. :/).
Don't use maul.
/fixed
(seriously, just use FFF every cd to pull an orb, use mangle and lacerate to generate threat on the boss. smart dps won't pull aggro)
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