Forum: Tanking Discussion

First of all, pardon my ignorance, I've played a DPS class for most of my WoW career and never really cared or paid attention to who tanked. I've...

So im up against trying to decide whats best for a red socket choice. Regal Dreadstone or Shifting Dreadstone. Any input? The World of...

My guild is currently on Anubarak Heroic 25 and I am tanking all 4 adds that spawn. My unhittable set works out very well, except every once in a...

I was wondering if the Purified Onyxia Blood Talisman would be better for me than the Bubbling Brightbrew Charm, here's my char The World of Warcraft...

I have been scratching my head on this one for some time now. Been searching the net but all i find pretty much is ppl saying that you should use...

I've heard that instead of gemming stamina you can gem +defense rating, for the dodge and parry. Right now i am 15 above the defense cap, because of...

Hey guys, I'm a feral main tank for a fairly small guild, and we're starting our 3rd week of ToGC 10man. The first two weeks we cleared to Anub with...

I just got yesterday the Koltira's Handguards of Triumph and gemed them with 30 stamina for more health pool, but i lack expertise, should i enchant...

First off let me say that I have extensively gone over nearly every thread on these forums. The issue I am having is that most threads that give...

Does anybody know if you have to have a certain faction level with Silver Covenant to buy gear from Aspirant Forudir at the Argent Tournament Grounds?

So far, I have seen many paladins and warriors who gemmed their gear differently. The most normal is the stam stack tank, witch pretty much puts a...

So what are the mechanics behind Deflections? After talking to a few tank friends, it seems like Hammer of the Righteous is what is being deflected....

I've come to realize that my dodge rating is hitting a fairly heavy DR (my trinket should give about 7% dodge on use, and I'm getting about 4.6%). ...

(Should this be on the Help section? :| ) So, my DK got to 80 yesterday and i'm starting to do instances for gear and badges. I'm a Frost...

I will preface this by saying that these items are for tanking Naxx and after 3.1 may no longer be as good as they are right now. (Best Items...

ok well my DKs guild needs me to tank and well I like to PvP a lot, I was thinking of a spec along these lines Talent Calculator - World of...

I posted on the Blizz Druid forums, but I figured I'd ask for a second opinion here. I'm a feral tank and most of my set pieces are in the 226 range....

Warr prot, been using Black heart and Eithriggs oat trinkets, add indestructible pot and all raid buffs i got to 75%dmg reduction from armor when...

So I tested this evening in heroic ToC(25) using two fast tanking weapons with the change to ToT and the threat was actually pretty good. I...

Hi I just had a little question regarding the fight with Anub in heroic 10man. My guild gets to him rather easily, in 2-3 attempts but we still have...

Now of course I know that unhittable sets with high block value are the "I Win" button for this fight and I have a reaonable amount of gear with...

I'm currently using the T8.5 pally tank chest. I have enough triumph to get the T9 chest (the lowest grade, for 50 triumph emblems). It's a...

sry wrong section.

Reading up on the Parry formula, I came across this note on WoWwiki. NOTE: When a mob parries an attack, its swing timer also advances in the same...

Hi all, i am quite new as postwriter on the forum and I hope this is the right place where to put it. Btw I'd like to know your impressions on...

So basically i'm asking as a dk tank, whats better overall, 1h's or 2h's? Currently i'm using a 2h'er with the rune for def to 2h weapon, What is...

On Tuesday i saw a minor update to ToC "The Anub'arak encounter has been changed on all difficulties. Anub’arak now attacks faster, the Nerubian...

Here is the question: I got 2 pieces t9 (shoulders and gloves) and am thinking wether it would be a good idea to combine them with 2 pieces of t8....

After reading the enlightening threads about threat values for various Warrior abilities (from Satrina's addon), I started wanting similar info for...