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My last post addressed getting into raid tanking for those of you stuck in the 5 man scene and really was geared more towards those of us that aren’t in an established guild. But, what about those of us that are in established guilds? How do we get a chance to tank? Perhaps, the most importance advice on that subject was brought up by Tinaria in a response to that last post.

You don’t impress people by being awesome, but by being reliable.

Which begs the question…

What makes a tank, reliable?

• Be awesome
• Be a Warrior

I’ve covered the topic of making the leap from 5 mans to raid tanking more than a few times, but with such a vast topic, there’s always another trick out there… you just have to find it. Today, we’re going to look at Fans and Favourites and why both of them are so effective at getting you into raids.

What? You don’t know who your Fans and Favourites are? Okay, I’ll break it down for you.

Fans: DPSers that think you’re an awesome tank.
Favourites: Healers you trust that would run with you again.

With every patch comes undocumented changes, but I’ve got to hand it to Blizzard, this time they’ve really caught me by surprise. It turns out that the Kael’thas encounter in Tempest Keep now has a chance to drop a permanent copy of the legendaries used in the encounter. For those of you unfamiliar with them, here they are:

• Cosmic Infuser
• Devastation
• Infinity Blade
• Netherstrand Longbow
• Phaseshift Bulwark
• Staff of Disintegration
• Warp Slicer

W.O.W.

Yes, it’s a lot to take in because while these weapons certainly lack the stat bonuses we’re used to on level 80 gear, they make up for it tremendously with amazing abilities and usages.

(Image ninjaed from the fine folks at rawrcast.com)

Just a heads up, I’ll be discussing the current and future state of tanking with Lore from Tankspot.com and Arment from the Reawaken guild on US-Staghelm on the Rawrcrast show on Friday, April 2nd at 7pm CST. (LIVE) Feel free to show up and join in the chatroom fun or leave me some questions that I can blindside my fellow participants with.

Note: If the question is too Warrior specific, but really, really good then I’ll probably just write a post about it here!

With Patch 3.3.3 hitting the live servers today, the first thing I did was go respec my 15/3/53 spec into a 15/3/53 spec. Out went Improved Spell Reflect and in came the new and significantly improved, Improved Revenge.

I can’t say enough good things about the change to Improved Revenge. Not only does it give a massive boost to the already massively boosted damage of Revenge, but it’s secondary bonus is also a lot more enticing. If I have to choose between a little, crappy stun that I have no control over and turning my now massive damaging Revenge into a cleave, I’ll choose the latter every time.