Bad Tactical Memes

[Darian]

The fights have been mostly short with only a limite rage pool to work with. Shield Bashi (10 rage) usually lights up before Sunder, so its a tough decision whether to bash right away or wait for the Sunder.
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In most cases, there's no need for you to be starting a fight without at least 15 rage already in your pocket. You've got two methods of priming the rage pump before the mob starts reacting to you.

Of course, when you say "short fights," you could well be talking about "screw 'tanking' this, just smack it down" fights, in which case it doesn't really even matter what you do outside of trying to maintain best practices.