As someone who’s been tanking for past 12 years, I’ve had a fair share of finger pointing, harassing and praising. Best I can suggest is be vocal. Type short messages.
“b” (back)
“Los” (means you lne of sight on pull)
Get marking addon and call out ahead - sheep = moon / diamond = fear / etc.
Tell hunters where you want traps.
Warriors in TBC can be a little funky, but when Wrath comes around, you will have A BLAST as prot warrior. Wrath prot warrior was my, by far, most favorite tank to play as.
Generally, i’ve had quite a pleasant experience as tank in TBCC. I got a lot of “pug friends” who constantly ask me to tank heroics for them.
The more you play, the more you will learn how to lead. What to expect from next pulls, when to use appropriate totems or hunter aspect of nature. You can call out which mobs hit harder.
Make sure you can see your group’s mana clearly. It is important to have an appropriate pace. You can freely pull next pack when healer is ~80% mana.
I also do /readycheck before boss pulls.
Ice trap in front of the healer, I like you.
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What about tossing 7 seeds of corruption in the first 10s of the fight and then spending the rest of the pull absorbing tens of thousands of heals worth of my healer mana, then lifetapping to near zero. This seems to be the warlock default these days.
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A tank TURNING to save a dps is potentially wiping the party, you cannot block or parry from behind. So that quick turn absolutely cripples mitigation and potentially allows a crush. Dps need to understand mob placement is VITAL and you cant be pullin things willy nilly.
Ouh, story time, just had a group shattered hall, pulling a pack and was tanking the mobs, the mages go, “IMMA GET CLOSE NOW” and comes close, I get scatter shot and he gets cleaved in half under 0.2 seconds. I don’t think I’ve laughed as loud as that in a while. I love how stupid the average mage/warlock/huntard is.
What part of this statement says “accident”?
I’m not in heroics yet, but I just think of it as a rage builder 
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The worst part about being a tank is that when anything goes wrong, whether your fault or not, it is ALWAYS YOUR FAULT according to the rest of the group.
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Someone has clearly never played a hunter.
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What worse is when I am trying to maintain pace and a healer doesn’t keep me topped off, so I don’t have enough mana to drop all my abilities and threat is completely off.
Seriously, keep a paladin topped, it will save a lot of time overall.
Greatest thing about being a Tank is you get to choose your DPS. The more DPS who act out the more Tanks will blacklist them. I believe there is an addon to manage people you Blacklist.
Beyond essentially being the main protagonist, which is very cool imo, you have all the power in group situations out of necessity.
Don’t ever growl a target that is on anyone but the healer. DPS learn slowly, but they do learn eventually with enough deaths.
rofl, yeah I had a Mage today (Are Mages the new Hunters?) who died 3 times in a row blowing his AoE load the moment the Paladin used Avengers Shield. I told him to wait for threat, but he said it was fine. After the 4th death he left.
The funnest thing about TBC is adapting. Sure, some Paladins can make mobs stick to them really well, but they will go OOM after every pull. Some Paladins you have to adapt to, but they will keep mana and pace the entire dungeon. Theres different styles to efficiency and I LOVE this about the TBC Paladin.
However… some people expect the same exact Tank scenario to playout everytime and have no capacity to adapt and then rage. I guess its Natural Selection playing out.
Dont be afraid to charge in, its a good thing, unless uou need to LOS.
The best thing to keep in mind, is to enjoy your role, and stay lighthearted. There’s no shame in wiping, struggle through it, and you’ll always come out the other side.
Thank you for tanking but this posted just inflated so many egos that I can physically feel the price for tanking fees go up.
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should’ve made SV a tank spec, would have been fitting.
Until heroic blood furnace…
Too many people are now use to prot pallys.
In certain dungeons where there are 5 mobs a pull, a warrior needs to tab target each of them and use one ability on each (TC is not enough to hold aggro from healer for long), so people typically need to wait around 4-5 GCD cycles before starting.
Of course, people wont wait, so what happens is that you prematurely need to swap to skull to taunt it, then manually swap back to whatever target you weren’t able to get threat on before healer pulls.
Sadly, few people seem to have a threat meter; something that was considered mandatory in both BC and wrath. Hopefully people get the memo soon.
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"Turn your damage meters off. "