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Miles to go and Dragons to kill; An Endgame Tanking Reference
I don't deal with theory. I lead raids and I kill dragons. The following is a reference guide written to help those new to the endgame. This is not a replacement for guild strategy decisions, nor is it the end-all and be-all of tanking.
This guide should help those who need help with specific encounters. To that end, I have given detailed help for each encounter which can be implemented into a guild strategy if you choose. Ultimately, this is for warriors, not for walking people through the endgame; as such I have not provided details about encounters that do not directly affect how warriors play.
The guide also serves a secondary purpose. The difference between the 40-man dynamic and the 5 and 10-man dynamic is significant. If you are a warrior applying to a raiding guild that has seen a significant amount of endgame content, you are strongly encouraged to read this and familiarize yourself with the encounters.
Finally, I do not pretend this is a be-all or end-all reference guide. Your guild, your experience, and your intuition comes first. Our videos never attempt to show clean-cut kills where nothing has gone wrong; instead, they show the general reality of encounters, what can go wrong, and how you can recover. Details in this guide may be off; abilities may be misrepresented. I apologize.
Thanks,
Patrick O'Callahan, Ciderhelm, Guildmaster of Eventide
An Introduction to the Endgame
0.1 Raiding
Main Tanking
1.1 What is Main Tanking?
1.2 Time Commitment
1.3 Guild Loyalty and Guild Gearing
Gearing
2.1 Pre-Molten Core
2.2 Blizzard's Itemization Theory
2.3 Head, Legs, Breastplate, Shoulders and Shields
2.4 Stamina: Magic Armor
2.5 Resistance: Magic Defense
2.6 To every season: Defense vs Stamina in relation to Healing
2.7 Self Sustenance; Consumables
2.8 Aggro verse Mitigation Weapons, Enchants
Tanking
3.1 Attack Power, Crits, and Steady/Irregular DPS
3.2 Talents, Skills
3.3 Positioning
3.4 Multi-tanking
The General Warrior's Reference Guide
4.1 Encounters, by instance
4.2 Movie Listing (Page 2)
4.3 Dynamics of the Dragon[ post edited by Ciderhelm ]
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