Gnollguy,Dec 28 2005, 06:54 PM Wrote:The wiki is most likely refering to the shield block + sunder tanking method as that combo is 15 rage as well and will garuntee a sunder when you want one.[right][snapback]98189[/snapback][/right]
I think you meant revenge where you said sunder up there. If that's the case, there's absolutely no explication of the "shield block first" philosophy in that section of the wiki article, and since the remainder of that section of the wiki is highly detailed in regard to application of tactics, I can only presume they weren't taking shield block into consideration.
In fact, later in that section of the article, the writer does go into a discussion of shield bash as a hate generator.
Shield block + revenge is, in fact, an awesome combo, although I would generally prefer to still use sunder first because I can apply it instantaneously rather than waiting to get hit (which, if other people are being monkeys, may never even happen -- you've seen me go ballistic because people have pulled aggro before I even had a chance to start locking down the mob, after all).
Darian Redwin - just some dude now