Greetings everyone. I decide since it feels like there is a shortage of tanks to work on my dormant VDH. I haven’t played it in many years. I managed to gear up to some extent pretty fast and I have had little issues in delves and raids. But M+ is another story. I am having a hard time managing defensive cooldowns on steady trash pulls pushing into keys 5 and Higher. I am currently 608 ilvl with mostly haste and crit. I have tried multiple trinkets including trinket from first boss of heroic raid, Broodsac, swarmgland, and others trying to fill gaps in my rotation with as much defenses as possible but heal back feels like it has been nerfed down pretty hard this expansion and I often find myself at the mercy of the healers skill. This is a far cry difference from what I experienced during BFA and my return at the end of Dragon flight where I pretty much was on auto pilot and hoping the rest of the group could keep up.
Does anyone have any tips they can provide to help keep moving on trash pulls without constantly having to stop and wait for CDs to come back up or hope the healer is capable of filling the gap?
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Tanks got nerfed into the ground because blizzard doesn’t know how to make utility roles enjoyable. Our souls should be healing 2-3x as much as they are, at least.
On 10+ you always want to have your targets hitting you either with demon form or fiery brand up, otherwise you kite. Demon Spikes and Sigil of Flame uptimes should also be maximized. Communicate with your healer and get pain supp, sac, or whatever if you need to stay in and have a hole in your defensives coming up.
That’s really all you can do. Blizzard needs to massively buff tank healing, otherwise people like me are simply not going to tank pugs and it’s only going to get worse.
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Yea I switched to a tank simply because you can hardly find one as it is. My main is heals. I noticed just healing that VDH was needing a lot more attention from me than warrior or DK though they aren’t as dependent on me as a bear druid, talk about a joke…
i was hoping there was something I was missing and VDH hasn’t been reduced to a “kite” tank. That is just wack. especially since kiting only half works anyway as most the time you are still getting hit by something even when you leaped half way across the zone from it lol.
i hihgly suggest you link a log in the felhammer discord for further help because vdh is one of the tankiest specs in the game., it just requires you to play it well and it punishes mistakes heavily.
i can also do a log review here if you want, if i can find a decent key or raid log