Last night I ran Blackrock Caverns in a mostly guild group of Shaman, Paladin, Mage, Boomkin and myself as the furry bear tank. Despite having a fair amount of crowd control available, I found that more often than not, we just CCed one of the mobs and I would tank the rest, on pulls of up to 5. Despite the group being in a mixture of half heroic gear and half reputation epics, the pulls all went well.
Now, the first time I tanked a heroic I had to use all the crowd control available, I even had to CC some mobs myself, I was only wanting to take two mobs max at once. In other runs I've been DPS on, the tank has not CCed anything, although I put that down to them being a paladin and having the AOE threat to pull it off. Now I am thinking when I get full 359 epics (and a swipe on a 3 second cooldown), I will be able to tank everything in a mob pack and just mark up a skull and cross.
I'm somewhat surprised that we can dispense with crowd control in Heroics in the first tier of the expansion, I thought it would take until the Firelands raid hit.
I am still having to work to hold threat on well geared DPS when we are on a single target, not sure how it will go with AOE tanking. Perhaps along with their plan to nerf content, Blizzard will also buff AOE threat moves to keep up.
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I recently got my Pally to 85 and just managed to get the ilvl to run random heroics.
ReplyDeleteI find people are already impatient with CC, Despite the fact that some of the plate wearing DPS will have more HP than me.
I find I am already spamming HoTR, consecrate and Avengers Shield whenever it procs.
I feel bad for the heals sometimes because I know they are in a panic to keep me up.