The Horrors of Grinding Sohm Al as a tank

[Marxam]

My tanking experience was actually pretty good for the most part. Had a few healers who couldn't really play their class well so I adjusted the pulls and things went smooth. My horror stories start when trying to level my alt as an AST. Almost every tank I queued with didn't use cd's. I swear I've never raged so hard knowing that these people will populate the already diluted tank queues with their sub-par tanking. Most were tank off specs with DPS mains but some were legitimately bad that I seriously thought they had to be trolling. Lately I've also been running into DRK without Darkside on. WTF.

[Sessurea]

on paladin I would always sprint ahead, and literally unload all my mp into flash spam, and then spend the rest of the pull just getting mp back with mp combo. It's easy and relaxing. Also wearing str accessories helps loads too, I'd even swap out all my 30 stat points from vitality and add to str. Str = agro = easier levelling.

[Iagainsti]

The myth farm in bray hm back in 2.2 or .3? Anyway, rough stuff at first, never did get my monkey. But lotsa of horror stories at first. As gear progresses it'll become a cinch. If you're that demoralized now, wait till next patch and try again.

[Drtoxicmedica]

Yeah, it's really annoying because some tanks will do things like that because they believe they're "speeding up the run" but in reality it doesn't actually help.

Especially the ones that seem to entirely discount healer DPS and believe that if they just "pull faster" or something, then the run will be over faster, when in truth - in most group compositions - it's actually not making the things die faster, especially when the healer doesn't have time to DPS.

It's makes me sad when I pop hallowed and don't see any healer aoe's I also gauge my pulls size to allow for healers dps through out the pull. From max mob count with my Cd's popped to when everything dying and my Cd's fall off. Speeds things up alot if you can pull a decent amount while giving your healer breathing room to dish out some damage

[CodeBlue]

Welcome to tanking for random people. To put it simply, tanking with people in randoms in all MMOs has very simple ideas you need to follow to make ANY group as successful as you can make it:

1)Manage and take steps to prevent idiocy. Go in thinking they are idiots, no seriously it works. If you anticipate a dps will be going buck wild on one mob while you are aoe enimty spamming then rework your rotation for the mob you see him attacking.
2) Use the first pull to establish a baseline for how strong your healer and dps is in the group. I do not typically use CDs on the first pull to see how well the healer keeps me up to gauge how aggressive I can be vs how defensive I need to be.
3) Do not be afraid to use your toolkit, you have resources, i.e. mana/TP so learn to use them but USE all of your abilities. Learn to manage them.