PvE Bible - WoW Pve Guide
There are two roles in raiding that can be among the hardest and most stressful in World of Warcraft. The first is that of a healer. The other is that of a tank. A tank is responsible for maintaining the focus of encounter bosses and trash mobs throughout an encounter, taking major damage and trying to hold agro with AoE threat attacks and numerous other cooldowns all at once.
One small mistake from a main tank can quickly lead to a raid wipe. So, it’s important that a tank knows exactly what they are doing before taking on such an important role. For those interested in tanking for their guild, here are three tips to ensure you are prepared for the demanding position you’re seeking:
1. Practice Often
Step one is to practice daily – ensuring that you get a good feel for how your character operates and what is expected of you. If you leveled up your character under a different talent spec (e.g. an Arms Warrior), then switch to your tanking spec and start practicing with it in PvE solo play. You can run daily quests or play around with your friends while getting acclimated to the different abilities that your character has available to them.
2. Start Off Small
Never start out by trying to tank a raid, no matter how many videos you’ve seen and practice you’ve completed. You should start out small, and by small it should be very small. Go on 5 man runs in Outland and learn how to pull an encounter and hold them in place. It may only take your team 15 seconds to kill bosses in those early instances, but the practice you gain by learning how your character operates as a tank is vital. You’ll never be able to gain that experience effectively with 24 other players filling your raid channel with expletives when you get them wiped.
Even when you’ve gotten to the point that you feel comfortable running those early 5 mans, move on to the Wrath 5 mans with teams, even before you hit heroic. You shouldn’t do anything challenging until you feel comfortable in the role of the Main Tank. That might take a few days or a few weeks to accomplish.
3. Gear and Consumables
All the knowledge and preparation in the world is meaningless if you’re not fully geared and stocked for an instance. A good tank needs to be as maxed out on his or her stats as possible for the instance you’re running. This means you should have 20,000+ HP for any 10 man raids before Ulduar and 25,000+ HP for any 25 man raids before Ulduar. After that, scale it accordingly to the gear you acquired during those earlier raids.
The same goes for consumables. Choose your buffs wisely, ensuring you get the necessary boosts to your Attack Power and Haste that are needed to keep your threat levels high and reduce the impact of high level bosses.
If you can do these three things and spend a good chunk of time preparing yourself effectively for what it takes to be a good raider, you might find that your guild quickly elevates you to a status of prominence. Good tanks are hard to come by. Prove you worth and you’ll be welcome for plenty of content to come.
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