I have been seeing a ton of willing furry tanks, allowing me to sit back and DPS. It’s nice as I do not have to roll against other plate wearers. That said, when I have to step in and off-tank adds of any number >1, the severe lack of (often enough) AOE aggro ability of warriors is abundantly apparent.
Still enjoy the class as it is, but furry tanks have a clear advantage with group pulls.
You can cheat the system for this problem. Just open a browser window to the WoW general forums and jump in to any one of the hot button topic arguments. Soon you’ll have more rage then you know what to do with and you won’t be hearing that anymore. It’s the secret sauce to warriors in vanilla.
Try playing a bear tank, you hold threat and obtain it more easily so when your with idiots who don’t understand threat its less of an issue.
CCing mobs is counterproductive. Any DPS who’s clued up enough to follow CC marks and do it properly is also capable of hitting a skull, which is a much faster and easier way to clear dungeon trash.
Wrong. It takes a small amount of time and mana to sheep a mob. It will take far more time for the healer to regain the mana they lost healing the tank for hp they lost getting hit by a mob that could have been sheeped.
Mark targets and if people pull other targets let them die. Let the healer know you’re going to do this and work with them. Kick bad DPS from the group and replace them. Easy money.
It really won’t though. And you’re giving up all the cleave damage by having the mob sheeped on its own.
Wrong
Not all groups have cleave damage
I know, you can’t be bothered to cast polymorph. Just admit it and stop making excuses
The odd thing is, you do not gain rage in game from missed/dodges/parries, yet you do in real life.
That is a fast track to my ignore list.
You never played vanilla. You just couldn’t do a lot of pulls without cc. This isn’t vanilla though it pre BC patch and we all out gear it.
You’re a druid. It is different for warriors.
Yes you could, you just weren’t any good.
Nice try. Those that played know.
ikr?
TBC noobs…they think they know vanilla…
Its the same thing when I’m tanking. I can tell you though that most players that take aggro from you don’t do it on purpose. In some cases players will down rank, or count to 5 before starting to dps. But they will get a wild crit and pull off you no matter what. And many of these players unfortunately don’t realize, after getting threat, that they need to basically come up and hug you so you can get threat back. They assume you can taunt at distance like in later expansions.
There are players that are too elite though and think that its a git gud kid situation if you cant hold threat. That’s the bad dps. And there is a lot of them unfortunately. For example I sometimes don’t much like tanking with certain warriors in the group on dps because they are always trying to get hit for more rage, thereby taking rage from me.
Edit: Just noticed that i participated in a thread necro. O well, my comment is still highly true.
When I use recklessness + bloodfury + deathwish all at once I become main tank
You must the be the tank I ran WC with. Mentioned that stacking sunders is a good way to get threat, and the tank told me to f off and left. I am full tank on my druid and I agree it is frustrating, but let them die a few times, and they will let you get threat moving forward lol. GL man don’t quit
LoL
I mean, I appreciate warrior dps because its very good. But its just hard to get rage sometimes. And I’m a druid so I can power shift. Ive tanked with 2 warriors and a mage before. I was basically there to mark targets and just stand there lol.
You’d expect someone taking a leadership role to have a thicker skin.
Also, the “go go go” mentality was very much alive and well in MoP/WoD/Legion, specially if you did any Challenge Modes or Mythic+.