How to become an MT the wrong way

If the shoe fits...wear it

If you pulled agro as a warrior on grull 2 minutes or more into the fight I'd say your other tank needs to step it up. Ask the guild if you can tank bosses occasionally just so you can be in good practice assuming your gear level can handle it.

You need to do it more so you get used to the pressure of raid tanking, of being in the spot light and knowing that if you screw up theres a good chance the raid wipes. Hopefully this will build your confidence and you won't be nervous about it in the future.

Your guild should be happy to have someone other then the person who's always been the MT be willing to tank. A single member shouldn't be that important to the guild, what if they leave the game tomorrow?

This is not a case of doing wrong. As the OT and especially as a warrior, you have to go all out threat working with limited rage. If you pass the MT and become the MT, its his/her problem.

Definately on Gruul, you have to push threat as much as possible so all the melee doesn't get threat capped...if the other tank get's left behind inthe process, that's his fault, not yours.

Do you want me to hold back and let him pass me?" "Fuck no, we ain't got time for that. You're tanking Gruul."

LOL

I can just imagine the anxiety on your face. Well done, you may see yourself in the MT spot sooner than you think

I ran Gruul last night myself, and me and my druid "OT" (I hesitate to call him OT) ended up switching back and forth like 4 or 5 times. That wasn't very nice to the healers, but they were all superb and did very well.

I generally go with this philosophy -- if you 1-shot a raid boss, I don't care if you danced on your head while turning your back between spamming Rend. You didn't screw up. Congratulations.

Man, all I have to say is... I feel your pain.

Except I did it as a paladin OT w/ no misdirects.

I had run as the 3rd tank last week (the guild uses three tanks building threat just in case), and I found myself struggling to stay ahead of melee DPS from rage-starvation. The hunters swapped over to MD me and keep me up and I know the melee were watching Omen close. So this time I decided that I was going to put out as much threat as I possibly could, and boy did I. The other two tanks are not bad at all, but it was just one of those fights were every single SS was a crit. That had me at second on threat, I ate a hurtful, dumped some rage on a couple HS because I was still in max threat mode, and BAM. Rewinding it, I would have been better off not dumping rage on HS after that first hurtful, and maintaining a TPR rotation.

Since the guild has several good tanks, I don't mind OTing, but I gotta admit, having the responsibility of keeping 24 other from being eaten by a giant dragonkiller is fun as hell. Sure beats clicking cubes!

Great post...thanks.

Although my guild has not progressed to Gruul yet (still making our way through Kara), I can relate to the original post, although from the other side of the fence. I am the MT...and have the privilege of working with a truly excellent OT (Druid). While we both seem to be pretty good at grabbing our assigned targets, there have been times when she ended up with a mob that was mine. A problem? Absolutely not! Our clothies didn't get hit on...the mob goes down...and we go forward. My own take on this is that I am grateful. As they say in the aviation business..."any landing that you walk away from is a success."