Maximizing your Void Reaver Threat
Void Reaver is a great gauge of how strong your threat generation is. To effectively generate threat during the “off-tank” portion of the fight, it’ll require you working with the other warriors as a team.
Shout it Out!
Both Commanding and Battle Shout need to stay active. If you are assigned one of these two make certain in never leaves.
Be a Noisy Main Tank
The Main Tank should be renewing Thunderclap and Demoralizing Shout. He/She should also be calling out when he’s suddenly got aggro.
Shield Slam, Devastate, That’s it.
Shield Slam > Devastate > Devastate is your rotation for generating the maximum amount of threat when you don’t have aggro on Void Reaver.
Unleash the Rage
Just before Void Reaver does his Pounding make sure you’ve burned up all your rage then switch to Berserker Stance to active Berserker Rage. Get ready to Heroic Strike spam cause you are about to get a ton of rage!
Intervene a Brother
Intervene the “Main Tank” when the pounding isn’t happening to get some extra rage. Make sure that you are at a decent life total though.
Gear Tip:
If you have [item]The Decapitator[/item], it’s going to be your best Threat Generation weapon for this encounter because you’ll be Devastating a lot more than usual.
September 18th, 2007 at 10:36 am
If you can get an enhance shammy in your group for windfury that also helps a great deal. You get the extra threat and also some extra rage.
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September 18th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I don’t really view Voidreaver as a threat test in the normal tanking sense but rather a DPS test. I do things on VR that I don’t normally do on other bosses such as:
Use Flask of Relentless Assault instead of Fortitude.
Use Roasted Clefthoof instead of whatever stam food I currently have.
Swap out heavy Stamina pieces for hit orientated DPS gear. Probably could make more swaps but I would lose out on some Defense although I could find some other ways to cheat.
If I’m the only warrior in my group its always Battleshout.
I don’t normally use Health Pots in general and since VR hits like a sissy, armour pots aren’t needed so I chain chug Haste Pots instead. If I get in trouble a Healthstone (or anything thats uses the HS cooldown) is more than sufficient although I would be lying if I didn’t blow Flamecaps.
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September 18th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Agreed the key to the encounter is dps. What I mean my threat gauge is that its a great way to measure your TPS as well as the TPS of the other tanks in your guild. It’s a long encounter that gives you plenty of time to test what works and what doesn’t. What you actually need to do for max threat is pretty simply, but regardless its nice to have a long, easy tank fight to confirm this.
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September 19th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Recklessness executes are a nice way to increase DPS/TPS after 20% has passed. You just have to pay attention for if he switches back to you to go back to defensive and probably pop last stand. I like to fill the rage bar, pop recklessness, execute, rage pot, execute, berserker rage, execute spam.
The only problem is if he switches to you and you aren’t prepared you can easily get pwnt. I have 2 piece t5 and full epics (cept for cloak, stupid al’ar) and he hits pretty hard if you’re in berserker with recklessness on:)
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November 26th, 2007 at 9:25 am
I’ve tanked VR from 100% to 5% on one kill. This isn’t because of my complete awesomeness, but rather the 3 hunters on an MD rotation. My threat ceiling was so high above the other tanks that I didn’t lose agro until that 5% mark. This helped make the kill a lot cleaner, as there were only 2 tank swaps.
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June 18th, 2008 at 8:23 am
I think it’s good to dual wield if you’re not currently getting hit by Void Reaver. This will provide faster rage accumulation in between poundings. If Void Reaver turns to you, be ready to smack a sword/board equip macro. Also, demand windfury totems from the raid’s shamans.
Ever notice VR’s ‘vroom vroom’ idle animation? It’s pretty funny.
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