Originally Posted by
Embermoon
Welcome to heroics. It's simply a fact of the damage scaling of the mobs. I could nitpick a few enchant/reforging things, but your biggest issue is your gear. In mostly 346 blues, ZA and ZG are going to tear you a new one. In those zones, you have to fall back on tanking 101 things, like:
- Make sure you reposition so that no mobs are hitting you from behind.
- Use CC heavily
- Know certain special mob abilities, like the flame casters' fireball volley, and their haste buff (that can be stripped after they cast their 1st volley)
- Use interrupts
- Move out of earthquake
- Move out of green stuff/fire
etc., etc.
Your post is a little bit confusing, because you say you take a lot of damage in raids and heroics, especially, but you seem to be able to tank raids, but not heroics. Where exactly are you okay, and where exactly are you having trouble? Please name specific bosses, or if it's just trash.
Also, who is healing you in your raids? Who's healing in the 5 mans? I always had an easier time w/ resto shams and holy pallies healing me, than I did w/ holy priests or resto druids. I can't speak for disc priests, as they don't seem to exist much in PvE anymore.
As for nitpicking your stats, consider reforging all your gear to dodge. If your issue is gear, that will help. I suspect your issues *might* be more along the lines of gear level vs. content, tactics, and the gear level and/or composition of your healers.