Hey guys. So I tanked way way back in TBC and WotLK vanilla. But I’m old now and totally forget everything.
To tank heroics 500 defense ok to start? Or do you need for sure 540 to even attempt them?
AoE tanking is using SoC and single target is SoV?
I tanked every heroic on my first day at level 80, I was in in Sunwell gear but I’ve had tanks worse geared than that. Heroics are an absolute joke and you can tank them easily in any reasonable gear set.
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It’s not about how geared the tank is.
It’a about how good your healer is.
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If you are wearing gear you are ready to tank heroics.
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Yeah pretty much.
Think I started heroics on my prot pal around 16k hp and 480 defense.
I’m now at 24k hp and 510 defense after a few days of heroics + some pvp gear.
I wouldn’t recommend doing huge pulls until you get better gear but the only “wipes” I’ve seen are mainly because healer wasn’t paying attention or went afk mid pull.
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to start with the defense cap for heroics is lower than for raids, if you have 535 defense you will be uncritable in heroic dungeons.
as for whether you can tank heroics with 500 defense… probably, but it depends on other factors, the less geared you are the more geared your healer should be, and of course you need enough health to survive a critical hit should one happen. I would say if you’re spec’d into ardent defender and have more than 25k hp and an average healer you should be ok
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You’ll be fine. Heroics are a super easy and your a prot paly. Ezzzz clap
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Thank you for the help
Yeah but we don’t enjoy chain spamming almost going oom to keep an undergeared tank up who thinks he can pull the entire room.
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There are a ton of trashcan tanks. Being undergeared is fine if you know the dungeon. Too many times these fresh retail tanks pull entire rooms and then cry when they die and leave.
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You need 535 defensive to not get critically hit by heroic dungeon bosses. Whether that’s a requirement for you and your groups depends on how much effective health you have and your healers.
As a DK, I started tanking heroics after I had 535 def, but if you’re a block tank it might not be as important. If you find you’re getting 1 shot from boss crits though, you’ll want to work on that.
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I tanked heroics in green gear with 0 defense as arms revenge spec. You’ll be fine. I think I had like 14k HP and no one died a single time in a world tour
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tanked heroics with less than 500 def and less than 24k hp. just go 1 group at a time instead of 3
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You basically just need a pulse to tank heroics, questing gear will do you just fine.
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For speed heroics I like using Seal of Command, with the Seal of Command Glyph, Glyph of Spiritual Attunement, and Glyph of Hammer of the Righteous and never have to worry about mana or keeping 100% uptime on plea.
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for mob 82 you need 535 def to be immune to crit. But you definitely don’t need that to tank WOTLK heroics as they are all jokes. I tanked them on my pally tank literally 20 minutes after I hit 80. I was in 70 Brutal gear and a few tanking gear from 70-80 dungeons. I had probably 4% crit reduction from from resil + def.
The only thing gear does for your for heroic is to let you pull more and do more damage.
SoC for AOE and SoV for single target.
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