Warrior Tanking Macro's

[Daveybutter 0]

So my plan is to grind it out as a prot warrior come release. I was an arms warrior during the vanilla days. Never got into tanking until WotLK. Anyone got some all around macro insight? All ideas are welcome! Thanks.

[Device 2]

I basically quit wow around the end of WoTLK and revisited to see the ever increasing suck that was cata and MoP and  walked away as the community was effectively utterly destroyed. I tanked through BC and WotLK.

 

There really isn't much need for many macros other than /rw (raid warning)  "pulling" "shieldwall" "last stand" spam, and /w the OT to "taunt". You could dig up the macros for baron Geddon's bomb target etc. What exactly are you worried about?

 

I am wondering what addons will work with 1.12. Will Recount, Bartender, DBM, Healium, and Omen still fly?

[Device 2]

here's a decent list:

 

https://forum.nostalrius.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=15825

[Daveybutter 0]

I guess something that auto taunt's when dealing with multiple targets. I know that protection warriors don't have the greatest AoE so being able to maintain threat is something I'm hoping to stay on top of.

[Device 2]

Idk, I've never been a fan of /tar macros (except maybe for bwl kiting and off tanking trash?) and I find those to be very particular to each encounter. For that I'd suggest you look at individual boss/ trash pulls/strat guides for tanking each encounter, I'm sure there are plenty of macros for that. 

 

Scholomance and stratholme are really good practice for click targeting problem mobs (perhaps this is just an aspect I enjoy from playing so much counter strike) and I really think it is beneficial to the player, as a tank, to get good despite any given handicap at this skill. For example the pathing core hounds when clearing trash before Gehennas or Harbinger in MC.

 

You want to be in a position mentally where the only reason you wipe is because too much was pulled (accidentally, by dps) and because your healers can't keep you up from unplanned adds. You should pride yourself on gaining and holding aggro on 90-100% of everything dps wanders into right up until you keel over from impossible hps then savor the decimation of dps after you die.

 

Threat is hardly ever an issue unless people aren't doing what they should be. There's a decent amount of tab (click) targeting as a warrior tank in vanilla and it has to be planned and observing the idiot dps activity. For example I might pull by shooting a target that I don't want people to dps down first but I want aggro on it initially because it's a caster, then I switch to the objective target which the dps is supposed to assist me on (if they know the event). Dps will initially pull aggro on the target but I'll steal it back with shield slam or w/e then taunt a third target blah blah. Now if they are assisting me when I make the pull they will attack the caster and pull aggro after the first cast. It's my job to make sure I see the arrows, shadowbolts, frostbolts heading to that target and efficiently manage my gcds to regain aggro after I've got the rest of the mobs under control. If some wayward meter hungry mage keels over from being too ambitious then so be it. If I can collect the trash and save him then more power to me.This is the essence of tanking.

 

Warriors are the best tanks in the game in vanilla, there are only a few encounters that a top apm player would fare better as another class in the tanking role. They will never be an autopilot class/role and require the most focus, flexibility in spell rotation and targeting, and response time. There's no macro for that.

[gotmilk0112 10]

I guess something that auto taunt's when dealing with multiple targets. I know that protection warriors don't have the greatest AoE so being able to maintain threat is something I'm hoping to stay on top of.

Macros can't automatically taunt mobs that aren't targeting you.

 

For AoE threat, you have Battle Shout and Demo Shout. Believe it or not, Battle Shout DOES generate threat, when you apply the buff to yourself and other players. It generates a certain amount of threat for each party member that you buff, and then equally distributes that threat to all the mobs.

 

Demo Shout applies a set amount of threat to all mobs it hits.

 

You can also Bloodrage after a ranged (bow/gun) pull, because resource generation generates some threat. So what you can do is stand within 20 yards of the rest of the group, hit your gun/bow, then as soon as the mobs start running toward you, bloodrage and battle shout. That should be a decent bit of AoE threat to get you started.

 

But for the most part, you just tab-target Sunders / Revenges / Heroic Strikes for "aoe threat".

Edited December 1, 2016 by gotmilk0112

[Daveybutter 0]

Thanks! I appreciate the advice. Is switching stances something that is done throughout a pull? I've seen strategies where switcing stances during battle helps to generate more rage and use certain skills to boost dps/threat generation. 

[gotmilk0112 10]

As far as I know, no. Defensive Stance gives you a flat 30% boost to threat generation, and then you have the talent that gives +15% threat while in defensive stance. I don't think switching to battle or berserker could possibly increase your threat.

 

Only time you'd switch stances is if you needed to cast something that requires another stance, like Mocking Blow (requires battle stance) or Berserker Rage (requires berserk stance)

Edited December 7, 2016 by gotmilk0112