Game-Changing New Powers

[Concillian]

P.S. I was feeling the rage starvation in beta, and my gear isn't so much better than those I mentioned above that I should have been rage-less. Dunno, maybe it's something as simple as stop spamming shield block.

It's a few things. I'm assuming here that the difficulty is in the trash, not the bosses. Because I can't see people having problems with bosses.

1) shield block is not something I really spam in 5-mans. You noted the healing being not terrible. I go aggro then damage then mit on trash. "Death is the best CC" school of thought. Mostly I will use shield block to trigger revenge (if I'm in a 5-man with casters so sunder isn't strictly necessary) or when a mob is about to die to get revenge queued for waking up a sheep, so I have good initial threat for that guy.

2) The Terenas Lurkers are generally very good about focus fire and making a target order before each pull. It makes tanking much, much, much easier when people are focus firing well. This is the primary difference between most PUGs I've been on and the Lurker runs.

3) Know when to quit throwing aggro on a mob. If you lose a mob at 20% to DPS and it's under heavy focus fire... it's not going to kill anyone. Healers can deal with some DPS getting a hit or two. Trash killing DPS is not a huge worry unless there was a focus fire gone wrong scenario. As long as they aren't on the healer, this is usually fine.

Having done quite a bit of at level 5-manning before TBC, I can honestly say that it's not a huge difference in TBC. For warriors that have raid tanked most of their characters life, it's probably the (rather significant) differences between 5-man tanking and raid tanking. They are very different, and people who are awesome raid tanks may have forgotten or never really learned how to 5-man very well. I don't think it's something to be ashamed of, it's normal if you spent a year doing raiding to be rusty at 5-mans.

I went into TBC expecting horrible things based on what I had read on the WoW boards about how poorly warriors were able to hold aggro. Now that I'm 65 and have tanked everything through mana-tombs, I don't see it yet. Seems very similar to all the other at-level 5 manning I've done.