» Matojo Admits She Has a Tank Addiction

Matojo Admits She Has a Tank Addiction

I have been pretty much tanking non-stop on various toons – two warriors, a druid and two death knights – over the past several weeks. With my mood being jumpy it’s been a great way to distract myself while continuing my hermit habits, though it also means I’m really behind on Roleplay and a lot of people are getting twitchy with me.

I digress.

After I dropped Gahiji’s tank gear and turned it into DPS gear, I switched back to tank gear (regemming and reenchanting the entire kit) and turned over to The Frost Side. Gahiji is now sporting a two-hander-centric Frost Tanking spec (admittedly copied from what was pointed out to me by Lodur after I bemoaned my favourite spec’s shitty AoE threat). Since I can’t get dual disease to flow worth shit with Frost, I’m going single disease and having a ball – my threat problems are few, I crit like crazy and my confidence in my Death Knight tanking has started to come back. With Dariahn’s lists and guides combined with the Tankspot DK Tanking Guide, I am pretty much set to work on gearing him up. For what? No idea. He has the DPS sigil, the one with the 200 STR proc, but I’m not replacing that until I get rid of some blues (I think of it as a little extra threat, y’know?). I also, unfortunately, dropped my dodge trinket (from Brewfest) in favour of the +170 STAM trinket from Brewfest, so I have two +170 STAM things on me. This puts me around 30k health and average avoidance with dodge gems, though I will probably replace the pure dodge gems (which are probably A Bad Idea and will get me laughed at) with Stam/Dodge.

First thing’s first – new pants.

I’m also enjoying my warriors. Matojo, who hit 77 this week, is a rage machine – he generates rage like whoa and puts out very high threat, which makes me happy and means I’m getting a lot of compliments about my tanking. One thing I have to say regarding the Vengeance battle group: my shitty experiences have been few and far between. Thank you, Vengeance. He’s not getting very many upgrades, but this is okay! These things happen.

Tecila on Zul’jin is level 20 and making me realize how stupid the low-level dungeon groups really are, though even Vengeance had a break from the stupid. There was one awesome druid on Ruin somewhere that made me want to hug her, can’t recall her name anymore. Overall though, I know my tanking is solid and I can’t fault myself for the idiocy of others – it’ll get better as I get higher.

The other DK, Nyarah, is Dual Wield and built according to the TankSpot guide. I really, really like DW tanking and haven’t had any difficulty with that – stylistically speaking, it’s pretty similar in rotation to 2-H. Of course, she isn’t 80, so it’s difficult to really gauge the similarities.

I think my favourite is turning out to be my Druid, Varkev, because Druid tanking is so simple but so damn effective. I’m hard to kill and I’m a fucking bear. This is a character that I really want to get to 80, and considering he’s in the Harbingers I can see this happening sooner rather than later.

So that’s what I’ve been doing – tanking. I like to think it’s something I’m good at, I seem to have the instinct for it, even if I’m not the most theorycrafting-minded person out there.

Rambles, Tank Talk | admin | February 19, 2010 4:31 pm

1 Comment

By Tohu, February 23, 2010 @ 2:35 am

Tanking is a rough thing to do for me – it requires leadership skills, and it can be stressful. I admire people who can do it, and do it well.

…By the way, this is Tohu. >_>