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My first character was a Warrior. I leveled for a while as Fury. After hearing people repeatedly gripe about being owned by “MS Warriors”, I switched to Arms. My plan the entire time, however, was to level to 70 and switch to Protection so I could tank for the guild I had joined.
That is eventually what happened. Around level 68 if I remember correctly, I respecced to Protection. I had done a good bit of research on tanking specs and had settled with one I liked. Shortly thereafter I was 70 and it was time to start tanking.
Lucky for me (and everyone else who grouped with me) I was tanking with a Paladin healer most of the time. Lucky because Paladins wear plate and will take a good licking before they die. And that is exactly what our Paladin healer did. A lot.
I sucked at tanking. Not that I’m Uber now, but my skills and knowledge of tanking - and WoW in general - have vastly improved since then. That much I can say with confidence.
Being someone who more or less looks to science for the answers to everything, I started researching the science of tanking. I know, I know… It’s as much an art as it is a science. But without the science - the facts - even the most artistically inclined of tanks will not do well in the end.
One HUGE hole I found in my tanking ability was my complete lack of knowledge of the mechanics of threat. And as I continue to play, it seems to me that there are many, many other players facing that challenge. And lots of them don’t even seem to realize it. And not just tanks either. In fact it’s mostly not tanks who don’t understand threat. Tanks and healers seem to generally have a good handle on it.
My point here is that I’ve been thinking about writing a series of guides on how threat works. Not because I think I understand it better than anyone else, but because I want to. By doing the research it will take to write such a guide, not only will I (hopefully) help the WoW community by creating that resource, but I will help myself understand it that much more.
And that is what I want from my WoW experience. To be the best damn bear tank I can be.
Which, in turn, is why I recently rolled a Warlock. Those SoB’s are always pulling mobs off of me and I want to know how. First hand.