Against single target I can keep threat without much problem. However in ZG or other instances I struggle to hold threat when mage/lock start aoe.
I have option to go as dual wield or 1H/shield. What rotation do you use when tanking multiple mobs? How do you start, what situation things do you look for?
You have no special benefit for any spec of warrior AoE tanking. Just tab sunder/Cleave/BT or Bshout and work super hard.
Biggest thing is to mark a skull and completely ignore it while the dps kill it themself so you can get baseline aggro on every other mob.
believe me, if mages are AoEing a group they have little to no expectation that you will hold threat on all the mobs
Don’t ever HS during AOE. Cleave is better.
Eh yeah whoops, I don’t even bother with AE so often I almost forgot it was a button you could use
You do your thing and ignore the mage.
I am not here to blame mages or anything just want to know how to best generate max threat when dealing with large number of mobs.
So far I gather
Charge→Bloodrage→Bloodthurst→Demo shout→ Cleave (rinse and repeat) .
Would love to hear from actual Fury/Prot tankers.
No one’s blaming the mage. I’m just telling you how to do it.
Step 1: hire a druid tank
Zerker rage beforehand and charge into zg trash with a thunderclap and demo shout then go d stance and blood rage for tab sunders
You’re probably not going to be able to hold more than a few mobs against mage AoE. You just get initial aggro on everything with demo and then cycle through them and tab bt, revenge, sunder. But if it’s more than 3-4 the mage is going to rip the rest off of you at some point and the healer will then switch to spam healing the mage and hope everything dies before the mage does. Your job is to just grab what you can to lessen the damage on him. If you can hold 3-4, that’s pretty good. No more than that can be expected.
Disc shield, food from the fire breath, and more. Paladin is best aoe tank you will not beat them next is feral.
Best strat is to have either bear/Paladin tank. Then you taunt off one mob that hits harder.
Use your strength taunts and more mitigation. Make your weakness as above tips but you will not beat a Druid or Paladin in aoe threat. Just use them it’s called team work.
It’s almost as if those other tanking classes that excel at AoE threat actually have a purpose.
Dynamite. Zerker rage > Def Stance > bloodrage > dense dynamite > demo shout spam > sunder/ revenge tabbing through targs with maybe some bloodthirsts in between and 9 times out of 10 youre not losing aggro until the pack is less than 10% hp. Not sure how noone in this thread has mentioned using bombs yet. Im sure someone will reply to this and say " well not everyone is an engineer". If youre gonna be a dedicated tank for an extended period of time, you should absolutely be an engineer and be using bombs while tanking
If you’re fury prot you’re going to lose rage when you charge and then switch to D stance. Try and build full rage at the end of every pack so you have more to work with the next. Tab cleave is your best hope for multi target agro and like others said Mark skull and let dps nuke it while you build on others.
Arms/prot does some decent aoe dmg.
If they want AOE tank so bad. They should have went druid or Paladin.
lol
im a deep prot tank and i usually charge->ww or zerk rage->ww or zerk rage->dstance->tab sunder and spend excess rage on cleave, use ww roughly on cd, sometimes use tclap if i dont lose over 20 rage by doing so
tclap doesn’t just generate damage+130 threat before the bstance penalty(which amounts to something like 650 threat spread across 4 mobs, compare that to a dstance sunder for 389 threat on 1 mob), but it also slows enemy attacks, causing enemies that you don’t have aggro on to deal less damage to other players
having concussive blow helps too
fury prot can’t stance dance like this, unfortunately, and ww and cleave will both be bad for aoe threat if you’re not using either a slow weapon or thunderfury because you won’t actually have infinite rage
as fury prot, the best you can do is smack a critter before charging, charge, use tclap mid-charge(but not too early), switch to zerk stance immediately to zerk rage, then swap to dstance regardless of how much rage you have, then hit dshout and begin normal dstance stuff while zerk rage dramatically increases your rage intake, and use bloodrage when you’re sure you won’t go above 100 rage
do also note that you can use thunderclap while you’re disarmed(but not silenced), and that shield bash generates damage+180 base threat, and can also be used while disarmed
but you should be wearing death grips if you care about disarms anyway
Charge in demo, swap pop zerk and WW, swap and tab sunders, BS when melee get in range