One of my targets for HC is to level up a Warrior and play as tank.
Surelely I’m not the best tank ever, but I have doubts around the setup of the tank (talents) and their worth.
Context
Well, as you all may know, there’re are two (2) Warrior-Tank setups once you raise level 60:
From experience of actually having tanked as a warrior during classic, the old deep prot spec will be a lot safer for both you and the rest of the raid everyone else will just have to watch their threat a dead boss is a dead boss even if the fight take slightly longer
Edit: You will also be able to spec into deep wounds and drop points in both cruelty and improved HS as we dont have a debuff cap in HC, its not something you will find a guide for but early on it could be viable while not making you drop as many points from prot as fury prot would make you do
First of all worry about this at 60 as the above poster said. But broadly speaking, there aren’t any tight dps races in Classic until Patchwerk, and maybe a couple super elite no life guilds will ever even attempt Naxx anyway.
So go prot with deep wounds as Cupid said and gear for pure survivability, you can bet your last dime all damage dealers will play with their eyes totally glued to threat meters, completely ignoring dps.
If I ever limp my way to 60, I’m playing deep frost with 2 ice blocks and a barrier and never so much as looking at the mob until the tank has had like 5 GCDs at it.
The story will go as its always gone. Dps dies to overaggro and die. It doesnt matter if its hc because the mentality of people is to think about consequences after when its to late.
Dps dies until death to overaggro and die to the point of actually being dead because they got killed. To death. Until they die. Ded. Kaput. Finito. Mort.
I don’t think it is fixed in any way, it literally just perma gibs 3-4 players from your raid. Even gaddon bombs must be pretty spicy on a fresh char. I bet the team that cleared MC all drank fire pots there and had several healers juat on bombs to top them up in the air.
