Threat and TAnk Classes

[Kevin]

I've helped out with diagnosing some warrior tank problems for friends lately, and there's a lot of warriors out there tanking like it's still BC. i.e. dev spam+SS. I'll look at a WWS and see 30 shield slams, 30 Heroic Strikes, 60 devastates, 7 revenges, and not a conc blow to be found. Usually these warriors are also low on expertise, as they've geared for highest mitigation *only*, and they're doing < 3K TPS, and every other tank is ripping off them, and the warrior doesn't have a clue as to why.

Yeah I talked with Frag about prot tanking before hitting the normals because I knew things had changed, but well I was a vanilla WoW warrior and revenge is still my first button to hit and that at least is still a good habit. :) I also got the tip that conc blow was more than just a stun now and I used it. Devastate was pretty much only used to put up a sunder stack and if I had nothing else to do with that GCD. SS was still very much a high priority. T-clap and shock wave got high priority on AoE. T-clap still got used pretty much most cooldown on single targets to. Shockwave did get skipped at times, generally right after I hit shield block because well the mobs were stunned.

Sure I wasn't fully up to speed on wariror tanking when I did it, but I wasn't fully up to speed on the ret stuff that I'm comparing it to either. :)

The difference in survivability between Ret and prot (pally or warrior prot) is HUGE though. It's actually part of why I like tanking as ret if the healer doesn't care. They may have to actually put some effort in to keep me alive and I need to pay attention to surge of light procs and when to use them and pay attention to sacred shield too because those can matter as a ret tank in a heroic. :)