What do you watch while tanking? - Page 2

**Cynocide** · #21 07-11-2008, 10:58 AM

Full House...Brady Bunch...

Oh...you weren't talking about that. :P

Rage, Shield Block/Shield Slam/Revenge CDs, sunder timers...the usual

Wao · #22 11-04-2008, 09:42 AM

I rarely watch my threat, that's the DPS' job as far as I'm concerned. But then again, my TPS has never been problematic really.

I find that watching cooldowns and debuff durations (TC, Demo) is the best use of time. That's probably about 60% of my attention, with the rest being paid to situational things if the need exists in an encounter.

**Gwailo** · #23 11-04-2008, 09:45 AM

I watch everyone else, because my brain just knows how to play warrior blindfolded.

Inaara · #24 11-04-2008, 09:48 AM

The monitor.....

CyCy · #25 11-04-2008, 11:25 AM

I watch my rotation and my main healer. Threat is my job to generate it's dpsers job to work with what I make. My Hp is my healers worry and his Hp and mana are my worries.

Rage is another thing I watch there is nothing so annoying as not dumping it and have 75 rage cool off while mana drinks are being served.

Other than those things stand in the right spot and listen to a little rage against the machine and spam the hell outta the keyboard let the RL do the yelling on vent. "O btw my mic is broke" lol.......keeps me out of debates and lets me worry about me.

Krashtork · #26 11-07-2008, 12:57 PM

I have no idea in what order I watch it in, but I watch pretty much everything at once. Including what other people are doing.

**Ciderhelm** · #27 11-07-2008, 12:58 PM

Starship Troopers at the moment.

Inaara · #28 11-07-2008, 02:47 PM

Source: Ciderhelm
Starship Troopers at the moment.

Love that movie. Dizzy's jumblies are BEAUTIFUL.

Caudates · #29 11-07-2008, 02:56 PM

My enhancement shaman, he will stormstrike a mob before you get to it then blame you for not tanking it.

If you want to tank for him make sure you're 1st, 2nd and 3rd on aggro.

**Tervel** · #30 11-07-2008, 03:04 PM

On new fights I end up watching what every1 else is doing and taking notes what can be improved and redone better. In any case all u do most of the times is do your rotation(have to actualy pay attention to that since 3.0) and if you dont have your camera rotated -stare at the boss's crotch.

ndb1983 · #31 11-07-2008, 03:09 PM

I watch Star Trek quite often

Petninja · #32 11-07-2008, 08:01 PM

It's my opinion that as a tank there is much more to doing your job than threat generation. It should probably be the first thing you learn to do, but you should never stop there. If tank = threat healer = health were true you're probably not using your shield wall, trinkets, and lock rocks. A bad tank can wipe a raid, a good tank can keep the raid alive, a great tank can make the fight feel smooth and well oiled. The latter isn't required, but the feeling it can give is more rewarding than the purples at the end of the encounter.

In short, I'm always looking for a way to improve.

Krashtork · #33 11-08-2008, 01:24 PM

Source: Ciderhelm
Starship Troopers at the moment.

Awesome movie, better book.

Naaven · #34 11-08-2008, 08:32 PM

Source: Krashtork
Awesome movie, better book.

You know what I liked about the movie? No reading. (j/k)

If tank = threat healer = health were true you're probably not using your shield wall, trinkets, and lock rocks.

That's true, except that if you have a proper notification when you reach whatever low health you've decided on (30% for me), you shouldn't have to watch your health and can be focused on more important things. Like Battlestar Gallactica.

Durendall · #35 11-12-2008, 05:36 AM

Most healers get really uppity if you start calling out what your HP is like. I have tried to say nothing about my health, and just call out if I have to use a cooldown to buffer myself. I may call out when spike damage is about to cream my face if it is timed, but most healers will take offense to anything more. Typically if DPS start saying something profound like "Durendall needs heals" in a raid, I will tell them to STFU before the healers do lmao

The last thing I need is for my healers to get overly-frustrated and re-roll DPS or something

Normally I glance at my HP occasionally to see if I need to buffer myself, I glance down at cooldowns, glance at debuffs, boss positioning... raid positioning... etc.

Something that I do try to do is keep an eye on the rest of my raid. I am in the unfortunate position of trying to MT and RL at the same time, which is fine for some encounters... but like when we were just recently working on Archimonde (amazing fight even post-nerf... was a lot of fun for us

) I stared at health bars like a hawk for our last 3 attempts calling out whenever anyone had the doomfire debuff as that was mostly what was killing us. I have a good feeling that half of the guild hates me now, as I was pretty much screaming it over vent... but hey... the boss died... so sue me lol

CyCy · #36 11-12-2008, 07:06 AM

Ahhh....ty for the criticism. And ty for turning this into the wowforums. The thread asked what other people watch when they tank. I answered honestly.

Petninja doesn't wanna share what he watches yet wants to call me a bad tank.

So popping laststand and shieldwall and all your trinket CD's is a good idea when your healer is about to hit you with a 10k heal and he just notified the rest of the healers to heal you too. So yeah then you sit there watching all your lifelines cookoff while your now being overhealed.... makes sense to watch your own HP.

My style of tanking is communication, communication, communication. If a healer can't keep up I expect them to tell me before I go down. Then it's my decision if the fight can be saved or take the wipe and unequip my sword and shield before I go down.

In short if a healer would to say over vent that they are "close to pulling aggro use devastate" I am gonna freak so why am I gonna state the obvious that my health is low heal me? In low level instances on an alt I dont' mind compensating for other people's mistakes and yea I will assume the heals aren't coming but in a raid everyone should know their role or know enough to say they don't know.

BTW Battlestar Galatica ROCKS however I miss Gerri Hall as Seven of Nine in Voyager....borgs are HOT!

**Galushi** · #37 11-12-2008, 07:14 AM

Depending on how hard the fight is, i might be watching a movie on my other moniter..lol

sorednbored · #38 11-12-2008, 07:58 AM

On a little side note to watching bars and stuff, when I need to really max out the threat and nail the rotation, I hardly flicker from my action bars and swing timers etc. So I don't have to even look ar my rage bar, does anyone know of an addon or a configuration for an addon that could show my rage in large, friendly letters without a Bar?

Something like this excellent home-made screenshot (I'm at work, so Google Images and MSPaint ftw!)

**Xav** · #39 11-12-2008, 08:00 AM

Didn't Satrina release his self-made mod that does basically that exact thing?

As to what I watch, eh. I watch my surroundings, the raid frames, and what's going on, and to a lesser extent my cooldowns.

sorednbored · #40 11-18-2008, 10:48 AM

Source: Xav
Didn't Satrina release his self-made mod that does basically that exact thing?

As to what I watch, eh. I watch my surroundings, the raid frames, and what's going on, and to a lesser extent my cooldowns.

Digits would appear to be what you're on about, Xav.

Digits : WoWInterface Downloads : Combat Mods

Thanks for the tip.