Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

Okay, so you leveled as protection. Let’s assume you intend to tank on said warrior. Since you’re now level 85, it follows that you should look up what the top raiding tanks are doing and do that, yes?

No.

Sweet candy-coated Garrosh clusters, no, you should not do that. Those guys are wearing gear you haven’t even started to collect and are in 10- or 25-man raids that are composed of some of the best players in the world. You’re just starting. You’re most likely going to be tanking in pickup groups where the other four players are complete strangers who neither know you nor care one whit about your gameplay. In some cases, sure, you’ll get a good group and everyone will work together and kill the monsters as a unit. That’s great.

I’m here to write columns to help you out, and frankly, you don’t need help with good groups. You need my help for the groups with the fury warrior in full Firelands gear who shows up in your heroic Deadmines run and does 28k DPS. (I said I was sorry.) You need my help for the ret paladin who doesn’t know what his interrupt is called (Rebuke) or the mage who won’t cast Polymorph because it’s just going to break anyway when he starts jumping around casting Arcane Explosion constantly for no reason.

This week, we’re going to talk about how to gear and play a tank starting out in normal level 85 instances and the first tier of Cataclysm heroics.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank bluesFiled under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Wrath of the Lich King, CataclysmThe Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank blues originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

Okay, so you leveled as protection. Let’s assume you intend to tank on said warrior. Since you’re now level 85, it follows that you should look up what the top raiding tanks are doing and do that, yes?

No.

Sweet candy-coated Garrosh clusters, no, you should not do that. Those guys are wearing gear you haven’t even started to collect and are in 10- or 25-man raids that are composed of some of the best players in the world. You’re just starting. You’re most likely going to be tanking in pickup groups where the other four players are complete strangers who neither know you nor care one whit about your gameplay. In some cases, sure, you’ll get a good group and everyone will work together and kill the monsters as a unit. That’s great.

I’m here to write columns to help you out, and frankly, you don’t need help with good groups. You need my help for the groups with the fury warrior in full Firelands gear who shows up in your heroic Deadmines run and does 28k DPS. (I said I was sorry.) You need my help for the ret paladin who doesn’t know what his interrupt is called (Rebuke) or the mage who won’t cast Polymorph because it’s just going to break anyway when he starts jumping around casting Arcane Explosion constantly for no reason.

This week, we’re going to talk about how to gear and play a tank starting out in normal level 85 instances and the first tier of Cataclysm heroics.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank bluesFiled under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, The Burning Crusade, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors, Wrath of the Lich King, CataclysmThe Care and Feeding of Warriors: The newly 85 warrior tank blues originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments