Healing Heriocs

Fayera said:
Have to admit Pally tanks are OP tank sadly(aka the best at the moment), and everyone is one now. They do take less dmg than most but they are also the easiest to play, they alos have so many oh sh@t buttons its not even funny, that being my reason to drop my pally tank and re-rolled a Druid tank.

We do take huge dmg in the beginning of a fight but after a few second savage defense kicks in. We do have some problems with group aggro but can get around that sometimes and some experience.

If you are pulling aggro of a Pally/warrior tank, then there is something wrong with the tank, but if its a new Druid tank then I think its due to his lack in experience, takes awhile to get use to Druid tanking, you don't just run in and consecrate and drink coffoe while the rest DPS ^_^.
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I actually got up on a boss fight in Naxx once because my girl was screaming and needed to go check it out. I was afk for about 30 seconds. When I got back I was still holding aggro :D
 
lol...have to admit they have massive aggro these days compared to TBC...lol

Wish they have a look at Druid taking gear...just flippen add some!!
 
To be totally honest druids are also good tanks, and like i mentioned there are druids in my guild that you cannot pull agro from at all. I had to taunt the crap outa the boss to pull it, but then when i have agro its also kinda impossible for him to pull agro off of me.

Problem with pally tanks its kinda hard to fine decent guy without ten thousands stacks of BV. And to point out something, the reason why paladin tanks take less damage is because they are usually avoidance tanks.

What oh **** buttons are you talking about, divine shield, oh wow 10s of less damage, when you have xt or thorim pounding on you a few 18k hits you need them, and warriors also have oh **** buttons.

Barkskin for druids? i havnt tanked on my druid in months so cant remember there talents
 
Fayera said:
lol...have to admit they have massive aggro these days compared to TBC...lol

Wish they have a look at Druid taking gear...just flippen add some!!
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If you arent generating alot of threat on your druid, you are stacking on the wrong stat.

Agreed paladins are the best for aoe agro, that is why paladins usually always get the task of off tank trash tanking.
 
Pallies have blessing of salvation reduce dmg take with 50%, Druids have barkskin, dmg reduce by 20%, They have lay on hands, Druids can regen health at the cost of rage, they have the talent that a killing blow buts HP back to 30-40%? They can still bubble even( I know resets aggro to 0). Don't wanna argue, I just believe Pallies are OP, thats all. Boss fights I keep aggro with a Druid.

One on one I think Druids can keep aggro but the gear in wotlk is really crappy for druid tanks, and Druids stack dodge(sitting at 35%) so we are also avoidance...right? ^_^.

Ps. Don't blame a girl if I have some few facts wrong ^_^ Always open for corrections, just my view at the moment, Blizz forgot Druid tanks....

Maybe I do stack wrong....I have all the leather gear I can get....and those stats are , Agi,Stamina,hit,crit and AP.
 
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Shouldnt it be stamina priority for druid tank?

As for lay on hands, it has a 20min cd, yes it helps in those situations where the healers are under stress. Yep bubble resets agro table, wipes raid:) hardly helpful in a end game encounter unless you have another tank take agro to reset debuffs. Ardent defender returns life yes.

Lol Fayera the gear for druid tanks is not crappy at all, go do some toc heroics or ulduar hard modes. You will see the gear that drops. I think the max dodge i've seen on druid tank is 40%, not sure if diminishing apply below or above that %

Link me ur char in a pm so i can check it out plz
 
Agreed with Fayera. Druids need some decent tanking gear. The best tanking weapon in the game at the moment still comes from Naxx afaik.

For a group of mobs I usually just let the pally tank all the mobs and then taunt them off him one by one. Single target I can keep aggro from the DPS but if a pally gives just a bit of effort I have to taunt again. Some of our pally tanks are sitting on 2.5-3k DPS, I'm on less than half of that. I've even started wearing some rogue/cat dps gear to try build more aggro than the damn facerollers :/
 
Crowley said:
Agreed with Fayera. Druids need some decent tanking gear. The best tanking weapon in the game at the moment still comes from Naxx afaik.

For a group of mobs I usually just let the pally tank all the mobs and then taunt them off him one by one. Single target I can keep aggro from the DPS but if a pally gives just a bit of effort I have to taunt again. Some of our pally tanks are sitting on 2.5-3k DPS, I'm on less than half of that. I've even started wearing some rogue/cat dps gear to try build more aggro than the damn facerollers :/
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If you believe that you seriously have done no progression.


http://www.wowhead.com/?item=46033
 
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To be honest that pretty much explains it. The new patch and the announcement of Cataclysm seems to have killed off half of our raiding force.
 
@ snow

i would also welcome some advice about gear and rotation on my druid if you don't mind, we are busy with uldar hard modes 10m. i passed on the staff that drops from hodir (realise that was a mistake, but the guy begged so, and he has not come on another raid).
but if u see where i can improve (talent and gear combo's) i will like to hear so.
 
@semaphore

Thanks I will send you my characters name and realm, the gear I am wearing is basically leather gear, I don't think there is much of a difference if any between us and Rogues.

I did read up on some forums, that you can either use HP as a form of mitigation or stack agi to get dodge up as a form of mitigation.

Appreciate all the help, I just don't wanna do PvE heal....I love tanking
 
And you could answer my question and maybe try sticking to the topic.
 
My point is there are awesome tanking staffs for druids, and if your guild is dieing, transfer to my server, and do faction swap, we need a druid tank:P
 
Not sure the effect as I haven't read the detail but I believe pally tanks are getting a small nurf soon
 
Blatman said:
Not sure the effect as I haven't read the detail but I believe pally tanks are getting a small nurf soon
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Minute nerf. And it's only to their threat generation like Semaphore mentioned before. From 90% to 80% which is still more than needed tbh. But Semaphore will post that there is never enough Aggro. He is correct, but 10% loss in Aggro generation will still not make someone pull a mob off me ;)
 
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