This is the first post on my first blog ever. I am kind of excited. This all works out well with the annihilation of the meatshield in my first heroics ever.
Mind you that I am fully prot and have just over 12K life. I tank on a pretty regular basis and get positive feedback from most any run. Not that tanking is really a difficult job...or so I thought.
I have a pretty solid string of events for when I tank. I hit shield slam whenever it is up, sunder when nothing else is up, Thunder Clap when needed and pop revenge as often as possible (if shield slam isn't up). Depending on the healer I will pop shield block and be more active in spell reflection. This avoids them from being drained of mana or decreasing time between pulls.
Anyways, back to my point about the heroics in which I got owned. I had never run heroic and was anticipating a stronger version of the instance. Nothing major. Simply keep up the DPS, stay alive and hold the aggro.
That last part of 'holding the aggro' is where I dropped the ball. I have successfully help aggro from a mage going all out. A mage with 1136 spell dmg and a 30% crit. I can hold aggro just fine. Somehow I couldn't keep up with em in Heroic Ramparts. I would Thunder Clap andShield Slam the guy, but by the time I threw a few sunders on him another mob would go after someone else. Even as I got the second mob away the mob I was originally tanking would run after someone else.
I am not sure if I just had a crappy run or if my pug group simply sucked balls and didn't what the hell they were doing. I want to say they were in Heroics and this knew what they were doing....the tank inside of me remembers the basic stupidity of pugs....I hate them.....
I reckon I will try again tonight with some guildies on vent to see how it goes. I could be freaking out cause of the last name and the fact that its a heroic. Gah!
