07-23-2006, 05:16 AM
I'm making a bear tank to supplement my holy priest - it will be nice to be able to raid with a tank one day and a healer the next.
The bear is level 49 and should hit 60 in about 3 weeks or so, maybe 2. The priest is 60 in 8/8 Devout/Virtuous with a couple of MC rings.
Our guild has cleared MC to Domo and ZG to Hakkar. We have a lot of new players. One of the shamans asked tonight, after several deaths on trash "should I be healing?" which was a bit of a bang your head on the wall moment for some of the veteran players. We do have some very good players and a good guild/raid leader
We have a lot of Warriors but most are WSG pwnage spec. I think people generally accept that our Fury warriors aren't good tanks even though they can trash an unsuspecting clothie in 3 seconds so I'm hoping for a role as secondary tank behind our 3 nominated Prot Warrior main tanks
I'm asking for 3 things here?
Spec advice
Gear advice
L2P advice
For spec I'm thinking of this.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=zZEtxscMdtE0b
Ideally I'd drop Improved MOTW but we need me to help buffs as people are still a bit slow and disorganised and prone to forget reagents and/or get cross if someone's not pulling their weight
Gear is a huge area - links to useful lists would help as would an explanation of what starts to get. Stam, +def and armour seem the main ones with Strength, +to hit and +crit helping with threat
L2P advice. I can tank 5 man instances fine. I've watched good main tanks handle raid bosses. That's the sum of my knowledge and it seems short of where it needs to be
Do you always stay bear? Can you shift out to innervate a healer with a raid boss on you or is that suicide? Are there encounters where being bear is better - I must say I like being able to Feral Charge without the stance dancing warriors have to do for a similar effect - seems it would be nice on Domo if you get teleported
Look forward to reading your responses, thanks for taking the time to read this
The bear is level 49 and should hit 60 in about 3 weeks or so, maybe 2. The priest is 60 in 8/8 Devout/Virtuous with a couple of MC rings.
Our guild has cleared MC to Domo and ZG to Hakkar. We have a lot of new players. One of the shamans asked tonight, after several deaths on trash "should I be healing?" which was a bit of a bang your head on the wall moment for some of the veteran players. We do have some very good players and a good guild/raid leader
We have a lot of Warriors but most are WSG pwnage spec. I think people generally accept that our Fury warriors aren't good tanks even though they can trash an unsuspecting clothie in 3 seconds so I'm hoping for a role as secondary tank behind our 3 nominated Prot Warrior main tanks
I'm asking for 3 things here?
Spec advice
Gear advice
L2P advice
For spec I'm thinking of this.
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=zZEtxscMdtE0b
Ideally I'd drop Improved MOTW but we need me to help buffs as people are still a bit slow and disorganised and prone to forget reagents and/or get cross if someone's not pulling their weight
Gear is a huge area - links to useful lists would help as would an explanation of what starts to get. Stam, +def and armour seem the main ones with Strength, +to hit and +crit helping with threat
L2P advice. I can tank 5 man instances fine. I've watched good main tanks handle raid bosses. That's the sum of my knowledge and it seems short of where it needs to be
Do you always stay bear? Can you shift out to innervate a healer with a raid boss on you or is that suicide? Are there encounters where being bear is better - I must say I like being able to Feral Charge without the stance dancing warriors have to do for a similar effect - seems it would be nice on Domo if you get teleported
Look forward to reading your responses, thanks for taking the time to read this