Forum: Tanking Discussion

Quick question on how the priest power word shield mechanic is applied. In what order does WoW compute the effects of various effects. If the...

I feel like a nube jes asking this, but I can't find any info on it anywhere. How does armor degeneration effect your armor? i.e. If you have...

hi guys, AS per my prev post im new to wow 5months and have newly rolled 80 on my fury warrior and am still gearing up, i have been told my crit...

I am constantly confounded as to why people choose Shield Specialization over focused rage and improved disciplines. Talent Calculator - World of...

I looked over our most recent Heroic 10m Anub'arak kill to see how my specialized block set stood up as the ad-tank. WoW Meter Online - Combatlog...

I was wondering why there is no more Block Rating on the newer gear/t9? How is this going to Effect warriors and paladins? Is block rating useless...

Morning All, Well, I have some confusion about the fact if Tier 9 4 pc bonus for warrior tanks is worth it or not. I already have 2 pc T9 bonus...

Having picked up some nice gear upgrades recently, I'm now at a stage where I have sufficient Defense Rating to consider picking up the Quel'Serrar....

Hey guys, I hope you can help me out! Lately I've started swapping out some of my T8.5 pieces for the i245 T9 gear and noticed that a few pieces of...

Sorry if I had to start a separate thread specifically made for DW Tanking. The other DK DW thread is a bit hard to follow because of the mix of both...

I read somewhere on these forums that threat generated from bloodrage is good enough to use in your rotation whenever it's off CD. I believe that...

I've been having problems lately tanking multiple targets. This is no longer the time of BC where people let mobs get to tanks before DPSing them...

So we have been doing ToC 25 every week, and I am the MT for all the raids, Ive been picking up gear and atm have 3 pieces of 9.25 and I am about to...

i was wondering if the t9 offset's are better then the t9 sets as far as stats go, i was somewhat under the impression that tier pieces are usually...

I wanted to get some opinions on my current spec and possible switch. I am currently running this spec: Talent Calculator - World of Warcraft ...

Hello. Well im a fairly good geared warrior tank in a decent raiding guild and ill start of by saying that I enjoy my class alot. However I have...

This whole thing spawned because of an argument I had with someone on Wowhead forums about tanks using rend. It got me to re-download the threat...

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Important stats for threat gearing III. Frequently asked questions IV. Example gear sets V. Gear ranked by...

I have two things to ask about. The first is about the T8 4-piece set bonus: 20% magic damage reduction while shield block is up. As I slowly...

Hi. I'm currently working up a little prot warrior. I know a bit about level 80 tanking but I've never actually had a tank above about level 50...

I am currently replacing my Valorous Dreadnaught Handguards - Item - World of Warcraft with the new Hellscream's Handguards of Conquest - Item -...

I'm now at 14% Parry/Dodge reduction from Expertise (w/ no Expertise gems). But my Hit is only at 1.4%. There's pretty much no Hit gear in ToC,...

Gleaming Quel'Serrar - Items - Sigrie +65 stamina and on hit +1400 armor and 100 defense rating. Anyone know if the uptime is 100%? And/or if...

This is my current ideal gear-set compilation pre Heroic ToC25 (because my guild is meh and not doing it yet lol) so no ilvl258 pieces yet. See...

I'm a fairly visual person, and I was somewhat bored, so I made a graphical representation of the warrior threat rotation, in the simpliest way I...

Hey Guys, Just need some help deciding on what trinkets should be using, first to explain my situation. I raid only 10mans - and so far we're up to...

Hey all, Just got lucky in VoA 25, and won Hellscream's Legguards of Triumph - Item - World of Warcraft , which seem very, very appealing. ...

I have been going back and forth between Arms and Fury trying to see which would produced the best DPS. Here are WoWHead profile stats: FURY...

Last night in ToC (25) Im tanking Anub. Cruising along doing just fine kinda in my "ok this is boring" mode as this is not a very technical tank...