I wish we had a classic class discussion board. Or I just didn’t see it and I’m sorry to put this in general.
Anyway I’m working on learning tanking this year and I’m mostly arms with the 5 into crit fury spec right now. I have been having decent success with 1H and shield and marking target order and then running around shield smacking/sundering everything and taunting anything that tries to look away from me.
Anyway Level 39 right now and was wondering what some of the next steps in working on tanking might be? Thanks.
Dude, I think you got it.
Step 2, Create a mage or hunter so you have gold.
Step 3, Don’t get a MT spot in guild raid and just play your hunter/mage instead.
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I tanked everything arms all the way to 59. It does start to get hard holding any sort of threat against 60 toons at the end. Survival isn’t really an issue, and I have to say that I enjoy the challenge and variety of tanking as Arms.
Tips: Make a weapon swap macro. There are plenty of times when you are better off tanking with your 2 hander on and then quickly swapping to sword and board only when survival becomes an issue. Or for bosses.
Defensive stance is where you’re headed to, not where you start. If you have space but no rage on pull, pop berserker rage, swap to battle stance and charge in. Shout/thunderclap, maybe even sweeping strikes, if survival is good swap to whirlwind. If not, defensive stance, tab/sunders. You don’t need or even want defensive stance unless you see your health going down.
Addons and macros are your friend. I use an addon that shows threat on the bar over the mob’s head. If I’m losing one, I can quickly swap and taunt. (or mouseover taunt bc macro) I also use an addon (IceHUD) that puts my health and rage right around my character. Every combat ability should be macro’ed to /startattack. Because white damage is almost all your damage later if you swap to prot, lol. But also a good smack in the face is often enough to get their attention.
Oooh, 1 more tip. DPS as arms in a dungeon if you are bit low, tank it when you’re not less than 2 or 3 levels below the end boss. It’s just too annoying otherwise.
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Yes make a mage or hunter for gold, lol.
Also you can get raid spots as dps as warrior.
Biggest help I can offer when you start to get to higher level dungeons is to Prioritize what mobs need to be tanked and what mobs don’t. I see a lot of tanks spreading out threat trying to hold aggro on 5 mobs at a time, but end up losing aggro on pretty much all of them. Tank the melee mobs, put a skull on a caster mob, put an X on the other caster mob ( if needed). The casters don’t do enough damage to need to be tanked and they should die very quickly if all dps target them first. This also allows you time to have lots of threat built up on the melee mobs before dps start nuking them. Makes tanking much less stressful if you do this.
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Scholo, Strat, and Dire Maul will start to get a little difficult to tank as arms spec unless you have the dungeons outgeared. It is possible, but would imagine it would be a little taxing on your healers.
Yes, I Arms tanked Scholo at lvl 59 and then hearthed to SW to respecced to Prot. BC there were too many times I had to choose between spending my rage on living and keeping threat.
Ooo, we can pretend that this post is a Warrior forum!
In today’s news, a dozen more mages put my green butt into the trashcan while asleep at the keyboard! 
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Thank you. Yes I was wondering about switching weapons around. I got a hold of Ravager and was enjoying the aoe damage I can spread about to make holding threat easier but switching back to shield after the first spin if a second didn’t immediately go up.
That is also a great idea. I would feel more comfortable going as a DPS for the first few runs until I knew the dungeon as well.
IIRC, the EU forums got separate class and profession forums. Small indie company cannot be expected to do so for all website regions.