So I have always healed but I thought I’d try PUG tanking in Classic (on Earthfury). I’ve gotten this Tauren warrior to 16 and I’m wondering if I should start trying RFC. I know I meet the minimum level but I don’t want to stick a poor healer with a tank that just doesn’t have the HP to survive a boss. I’d love some input from you veteran tanks before I jump into the deep-end of the pool.
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I like to start tanking RFC at 14 so I don’t feel too squishy and get some more skills. But 13 is very doable. I’ve also seen level 12’s do it as well but I personally don’t recommend it.
16 is no problem whatsoever.
Hey its great to have a Tank that is thinking about the healer.
Like you, the priest, doesn’t start getting their good spells until 16. So at 16, I think you should be fine. Group up and have fun. If the party wipes and disbands, everyone probably has gained a little more in levels, better armor, and money. Reform and try again another day.
RCF is steamroll at level.
Further in instances, its a bit different. As long as you keep up with your gear doing at lvl instances isnt bad. Not dieing isn’t necessarily the main challenge, holding agro is, especially if you bring DPS a few levels above you, or have spaz dps that blow their load before the mobs get to you. For the most part healers do the research, know their downranks and can hold it together. I do a LOT of PUGs, and healing is very rarely an issue.
Few extra tips for making your healers life easier.
If there’s no mage, healer has to burn money every time they drink, think about mitigating dmg as much as you can, put up CC icons, pull mobs back to avoid runners chain pulling. Slow the pace a bit so spirit regen kicks in more and healer has to drink less.
If you have a healer you’ve run with a few times and you’re picking your pace up, make sure healer has time to start drinking. Soon as they sit down your good to head into the next pull, by the time you need a heal they’ll be 75% mana and get you covered. Just make sure they get that 2 seconds or so out of combat to be able to start drinking, dont just go from last mob in pack straight into next pack before they can start drinking.
Always make sure you are 1 - 2 levels above the dungeon recommend. That way you can hold aggro.
16 should be fine. The highest level mob in there is 16.
For future reference, I prefer to tank dungeons when I’m at least 2 levels below the last boss.
16 is a good time to start RFC. Generally start each dungeon on an even level so you can learn new skills before you go in.
There is a spot that gets a little dicey, upper 30s… for druid its a little faster, hit 40 get dire bear… warrior gets access to plate at 40… but still has to replace their mail with plate to get benifit from it, i wont tank RFD / SM cath as druid under 40 (I’ll heal it though), war kinda has to do them before replacing with plate since, a lot of their first good plate items are from RFD
RFC minimum level is 13 and it’s fairly easy. Only gets kind of dicey with the orcs.
Level 16 is fine.
I’d wait until your tank is older. Babies are rather squishy.
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