So I wanted to give my hand at tanking and for the most part I enjoy it. The only thing I’m having a problem with is that in raids it’s hard to stay alive. In dungeons i seem to be ok but it’s worrisome when my health keeps dropping. Is it because I’m ilvl is too low or mine not using demon spikes right?
That’s the nature of the game, raids are tougher for vengeance. For raids you might want to consider swapping fracture for feed the demon.
This handy Macro might help with your leap consuming some of your souls :
#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Infernal Strike
That’s just vengeance. We get a small boost at the start of 8.2, but we a still one of the weakest tanks. Especially for raids.
Back in Uldir there was a DH in my old guild who felt the opposite. She could tank Normal and Heroic raid pretty well but could tank keys well at all.
True, but not by any large degree. Vdh tanks are doing very well in mythic prog.
VNG is perfectly fine for the content 95% of the playerbase does, and still has a good presence in the other 5%.
22k sustained single target makes a lot of problems look smaller.
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It is probably your iLevel being a bit low. But I started tanking the new raid at around 400 iLevel on my Druid.
Demon Hunters tank very well once you know the fights and especially the cast times of the tank busters. Infernal Brand(or whatever it is called, I’m on my phone typing this) is a great CD if you know when to use it for the maximum effect. Also, try to get a tanking trinket that offers an additional CD for bosses.
I tanked all of Uldir for my guild on my Demon Hunter back at the start of the expansion and I had no problems. Also, feel free to bank some souls if you know you are going to get hit with a tank buster to heal it back up quickly.
when it comes to tanking u want to stack as much of everything as possible.
what i mean is.
you want:
- tons of stamina
- tons of tank items such as tank trinkets, tank enchants, tank gems etc.
- good buffs like flasks, food buffs, fortitude etc.
- lots of good azerite traits and the right talents . when it comes to VDH i feel like having the right talents is crucial. soul barrier is a fairly nice absorb and with fracture can be used easily