Turn on Tidy/Threat plates and watch those big red plates grow while your dps’s using their aoe napalm. I don’t think it’s that simple to just spam swipe if you really want to hold agro in heroics. That being said, I’m eager to get those new shiny Cata tanking spells :)
Actually, thats how I do it, mangle glyphed to swipe, with glyph of mangle, tab target taking turns hitting the mob with swipe and mangle hitting my target and a friend.
I don’t bother with heroics much anymore..but when I do, I can easily hold agro with just Swipe. (of course, being in full 264 in a cat spec has something to do with that.) If I take the time to put in a Maul glyph, I can generally pull 4-5k DPS, depending on the instance.
I tend to use health bar colouring by threat myself… Nothing is easier to pick out than one mob suddenly turning from green to red ;).
Anyway, it will be very interesting to see how Pulverize works out. Along with Skull Bash it might just save me from rerolling prot warrior. Bear is just mind-numbingly simple ATM. Flipside of that is that it allows for superior situational awareness.
Well, too bad the chart is horribly wrong. Try that on a boss with current DPS values and it’ll not be you tanking the boss after a very short time…..
The bear rotation is lame, but it has a couple more buttons that what the chart is suggesting (at least for a boss).
In 5 mans it’s even worse. You won’t even have the time to stack 5 lacerates before the boss is dead. If the group is not providing a bleed, stack 1 lacerate for rend and tear and then go for mangle/FF/swipe/swipe, all with maul macroed in.
Even better, tank as cat, it goes even faster…..
Hehehe. It amuses me the vast difference between bear and kitty in complexity in the same tree. :)
Agreed. And thanks for the grins this morning :)
The sad thing is that it completely excludeds Mangle…and it still works. /sigh Such is the plight of the Feral.
Turn on Tidy/Threat plates and watch those big red plates grow while your dps’s using their aoe napalm. I don’t think it’s that simple to just spam swipe if you really want to hold agro in heroics. That being said, I’m eager to get those new shiny Cata tanking spells :)
Actually, thats how I do it, mangle glyphed to swipe, with glyph of mangle, tab target taking turns hitting the mob with swipe and mangle hitting my target and a friend.
I don’t bother with heroics much anymore..but when I do, I can easily hold agro with just Swipe. (of course, being in full 264 in a cat spec has something to do with that.) If I take the time to put in a Maul glyph, I can generally pull 4-5k DPS, depending on the instance.
I tend to use health bar colouring by threat myself… Nothing is easier to pick out than one mob suddenly turning from green to red ;).
Anyway, it will be very interesting to see how Pulverize works out. Along with Skull Bash it might just save me from rerolling prot warrior. Bear is just mind-numbingly simple ATM. Flipside of that is that it allows for superior situational awareness.
Well, too bad the chart is horribly wrong. Try that on a boss with current DPS values and it’ll not be you tanking the boss after a very short time…..
The bear rotation is lame, but it has a couple more buttons that what the chart is suggesting (at least for a boss).
Note the “5-man” header…
I stand by my comment.
In 5 mans it’s even worse. You won’t even have the time to stack 5 lacerates before the boss is dead. If the group is not providing a bleed, stack 1 lacerate for rend and tear and then go for mangle/FF/swipe/swipe, all with maul macroed in.
Even better, tank as cat, it goes even faster…..