Heroic Siege of Orgrimmar: First Six Bosses Cheatsheet
None of these bosses are all that different from their normal / flex incarnations, but I thought I’d share my notes that I took while working on them. For the general tanking strategy of normal modes,...
View ArticleHeroic Tanking SoO: Dark Shaman, Nazgrim, Malkorok, and Spoils
Four (and more) orcs that must die. And their treasure. Kor’kron Dark Shaman Most guilds use a three tank, split group strategy. Two tanks on Earthbreaker Haromm, swapping for the debuff, and one tank...
View ArticleHeroic Tanking Siege of Orgrimmar: Thok
You can either single tank or two-tank this fight. I’ll cover both scenarios to the best of my knowledge. Single tanking is fun, and useful if you need to increase your raid’s dps to beat the fight,...
View ArticleHeroic Tanking Siege of Orgrimmar: Siegecrafter Blackfuse
I find Seigecrafter Blackfuse to be a boring fight for a tank, since you’re just sitting there popping cooldowns every 20 seconds or so. But it’s hard for everyone else so you must do your best to...
View ArticleHeroic Tanking Siege of Orgrimmar: Paragons of the Klaxxi
I guess writing a guide for this implies I understand this fight in some way. That is far from true. I know what happens to me, and I sort of know what happens to my cotank. Everything else is a vague...
View ArticleThe Quick & Dirty Tanking Guide for Highmaul
This guide is the distilled essence of what is needed for tanks to jump into their first few attempts of bosses in Highmaul. You won’t find any in-depth strategies here (though you might find them...
View ArticleThe Quick & Dirty Tanking Guide for Blackrock Foundry
This guide is the distilled essence of what is needed for tanks to jump into their first few attempts of bosses in Blackrock Foundry. You won’t find any in-depth strategies here (though you might find...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty Hellfire Citadel Tanking Guide
As usual, this guide is the distilled essence of what is needed for tanks to jump into their first few attempts of bosses in Hellfire Citadel. You won’t find any in-depth strategies here (though you...
View ArticleLazy Tank’s Guide to Mythic Gorefiend
Gorefiend? More like Borefiend. For a verbal version of what one lazy tank and one very busy tank have to say about this boss fight, listen to Episode 28 of TankCast, starting at 01:45. Preparation...
View ArticleLazy Tank’s Guide to Mythic Socrethar
The only fight where you can carry your raid or take a nap, depending on your tanking role. If you are a true lazy tank, you know what to do. For a verbal version of what one lazy tank and one very...
View ArticleLazy Tank’s Guide to Mythic Iskar
Are you prepared to discuss the pronunciation of “riposte” with your raid team? For a verbal version of what one lazy tank and one very busy tank have to say about this boss fight, listen to Episode...
View ArticleFirst Draft of the Quick and Dirty Legion Dungeon Guide is up!
My raid tanking guides for previous expansions have been pretty successful, so I wanted to expand them to dungeons for Legion. Right now they just include simple tanking strategies for normal mode,...
View ArticleSunnier’s Legion Survival Guide
Brewmaster Guide Vengeance Guide Dungeon Tanking Guide Frequently Asked Questions Should I level as a tank? Definitely! With your survival, mobility, and AoE, you’ll probably level faster as a tank...
View ArticleNew Quick and Dirty Emerald Nightmare Tanking Guide!
Here it is! It’s still in progress, and I need to fill out some of the heroic, mythic, and LFR info, but normal is all there. I’ll be updating over the next few weeks as I learn these fights. Emerald...
View ArticleNew Quick and Dirty Trial of Valor Tanking Guide
Strategies for normal and heroic Trial of Valor are all there. As always, I’ll be updating over the next few weeks as I learn these fights. Trial of Valor Tanking Guide
View ArticleNew Nighthold Tanking Guide!
The tanking guide is up for normal and heroic Nighthold. As always, I’ll be updating over the next few weeks as I learn these fights, simplifying where I can, correcting what I got wrong, and filling...
View ArticleQuick and Dirty Tomb of Sargeras Tanking Guide is Here!
It’s still in rough draft state since some bosses don’t have a lot of information out there, but at least every one has a basic guide! Tomb of Sargeras Tanking Guide
View ArticleMythic Details Added for Antorus
I finally got around to updating almost all the bosses (I haven’t seen mythic Argus yet) with details for mythic! This has been a rough winter and busy spring for me, so I’m sorry it took so long! Hope...
View ArticleSimplified Eternal Palace Guide is Here!
I’ve been back from vacation for a week and finally had time to research. This guide is a little bit of an experiment. It’s far simpler than normal — no links or colors — just cleaned up notes. It...
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