Well last night I went through Blood Furnace on my warrior. Now before TBC I had extremely limited experience tanking in instances. My warrior was basically used to dink around when I wasn’t on my Mage but now I am trying to make him a viable character and with that into a good tank. What I am running into is that I had a hard time holding multiple mobs at once and I want to see if I did everything I could or it was just the massive dps in group.
Group
Warrior (Prot)
Rogue
Rogue
Paladin
Priest (Level 70 Shadow)
Now 99.9% of the instance we had great CC and the majority of the fights were controlled one at a time with little to no aggro issue. I had the 5 sunders, taunt, and used shield bash so by that time I finished that the Rogues just destroyed the mob. But we got to the second chamber where you have to fight the locked up Orcs before the boss.
I would head in before the group and mark the kill target and immediately throw down a Thunder Clap to gain their attention. I would then throw up 3 Sunders on the marked target (X) and then stop focusing on the X to start throwing sunders on each of the remaining mobs so they wouldn’t get tempted to run on healing aggro. But I noticed that when I stopped attacking the X the rogues would gain all the aggro (I had expected this) and when switching back from the others to the X it kept acting like a domino effect where I was continuously fighting to gain control of all the other mobs to prevent the rogues/healer from getting wailed on.
My thought was either I wasn’t adding something to my tanking order like more Thunder Claps or by chance in the confusion one of the rogues was hitting the wrong target and bouncing aggro between him and me. Now we came out ahead with very little loss in health but I am trying to understand the issue so I can correct for future instances.
Edited, Apr 26th 2007 1:11pm by Wales