So i like to think im a decent prot warrior, but we are now muddling through heroic progress (4/13) and im starting to have real threat issues in certain situations..
the other 2 tanks are a Paladin and Druid.. both are so much better at getting snap threat over me its really getting on my grill.
here is my armory - http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/characte...ufang/advanced
First off, any sort of trash, i might aswell afk. I could run in first.. get hit first.. start attacking back first. Then either of them will run in pop one of their aoe abilities and the mobs jump to them after a few ticks of whatever it is, im then miles behind on threat with nothing i can do to catch up.. my rotation on pull is > DR+BB followed by thunderclap, mixing in dev/ss/rev depending on procs... only if i am first to attack a boss do i not lose threat.. and that is only because i have misdirects.. they would easily out threat me without them.. dps often overtake me on threat at the start and its outside of a taunt every 7 seconds, theres not a lot i can do if this happens.
I kinda understnad why i have less threat, these 2 tanks can utilise dps stats to up their aggro.. but it seems to me i am doing something wrong also because the gap is massive.. on bosses like horridon.. i sadly get the shittier job of tanking adds on every door, but outside of using mocking banner i am lucky if i can keep everything on me for more than a few seconds.. as we have dps assigned to many different adds at once to deal with inturrupts etc... During our kill just this evening, i was unable to get more than about 30/40k vengence on these adds and often it was lower, this meant i had no real meat behind my attacks so they were being pulled off very easily by the dps, who although just handled it.. complained that i wasnt doing enough threat.
I know im coming off as a whiner but its kinda hard not too. i love the mechanics of the prot warrior.. its great in certain situations. Im untouchable on Hc ji kun (assuming i can get threat back off our druid or paladin). i just feel like im a 2nd rate tank now esp on heroic stuff where our dps are going all out from the start..
am i missing a trick, or is this something i just have to live with.. am i gonna have to start gimping myself to take more damage just to get my threat up?
if you wanna go through our logs and tell me where i might be going wrong (im not in all fights, i feel like i get benched more often than not.. ive not been included in a tortus kill.. or even more than 1hour worth of tries, some of which i was just dps, as our pally tank is just so much better for the fight and we use a monk tank to kite.)
logs - http://www.worldoflogs.com/guilds/63159/
.... rant over...
. A frustrated warrior