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The Feral Tanking Guide, Part 5: Addons and Other Resources
December 8, 2009 by Chase
December 8, 2009 by Chase
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Hi.
As a long time reader, never ever poster, just wanted to thank you for a brilliant guide, and also the mass of other good post. (Perfect for me as a semi-serious raider)
You are getting less recognition for what you do than what you deserve!
Goryus
Goryus,
Thanks. Posts like this keep me blogging. π
As a new bear tank I’m really enjoying these guides π
I have Omen but Aloft looks fantastic for trash tanking, and I really like the sounds of the way you’ve set it up.
It would be brilliant for when I’m tanking a pack of mobs and the death knight can’t resist whacking the wrong target, so I could give his mob some extra love.
Are you able to share how you set it up? I’ve just taken a look at the Aloft page and there’s so many options, I’m a little intimidated.
Kassi, I’ll have to look at it when I get a chance. Unfortunately, I do most of my blogging during work downtime, which means it’s hard to just pull up WoW or a WoW website (filtered) to check something. π You can also try TidyPlates/ThreatPlates; that solution works out-of-the-box and it’s pretty good (been testing it in 5-mans this week), but I find Aloft more intuitive. From what I remember though, easiest thing to do is turn everything on, go run into Violet Hold (the mobs alternately aggroing on the guards/you makes it good for testing) and then start turning off stuff you don’t need. There should be some built-in templates that you can start from.
Thanks for all the info
had to read it 3 times for it to sink in and still not sure if it all has
It’s okay…you learn a lot as you go. π
Great blog, thanks for posting! Here are some other addons that I find invaluable for bear tanking.
1. Tauntmaster – this is basically an auto-grid like aloft, but it provides some tank-specific capability. Basically, it shows the party members’ current health (and mana, if you configure it) and turns their grid yellow if they are approaching your threat on a mob, and red if they gain aggro. Then you can left-click on their box to taunt the mob they have aggro on, or right click on the frame to use Challenging Roar. Makes the “crap, the healer has aggro, which mob do I taunt?” panic basically go away. Makes tanking about 200% easier.
2. Optitaunt – this one has two important functions, one for the tank and one for everyone else. For the tank, it tells them if a taunt missed or was resisted. For everyone else, it notifies party when certain spells are used, such as Barkskin or Survival Instincts. This gives the healer and DPS some knowledge of the state of the fight that is very useful.
3. Badkitty – okay, this is largely touted as a feral cat addon, but it’s very useful for tanks, too. Hate tanking without it.
Cheers,
Harr@Rexxar
I’m a addon buff, but since I’m new to tanking I learned of a couple nice addons! Thanks.
As an alternative to aloft, which I didn’t like, you could try Tidy Plates (thread), which is at least much easier, but perhaps not as flexible. Aloft was a bit too big for my liking.
(Mh, seems like I can’t include the link to Tidy plates, but you’ll find it easily on curse.)
Jakob,
Already have TP + TP in the post. π
Au, you’re of course right. Well at least I’ve left your readers an opinion. π
Hello and thanks for the great guide. It is still very useful to me!
I wanted to add that this specific part (5) of the article is not available via the link in the index, which points to a different URL.
Yay for WP and their automatic page naming. Fixed. Thanks.
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