I brought my prot pally into hfc to try tanking for the first time and noticed that he tried to argo all boss adds not just the one hes suppose to sit on. Does anyone have any ideas how to be a good tank in hfc and not look like a complete idiot steeling argo from other tank and timng taunting for when you need to taunt off the other tank. Im new at the whole tanking thing and wanted to see if their was anything i could set up to make it so i can control the taunting/ holding argo on certain fights?
Who's Cr are you running is the first order of business?. Most good CR's have detailed descriptions for options including, manual movement, taunting, and cooldowns. I would level a tank and become familiar with the class as well as the CR's operation before jumping into endgame stuff without having a thorough understanding, otherwise you just end up looking like a bot.
ok thankyou i would use tuanha's but his crap is broken atm so i use hazzmat's cr i know their is a way to config just wasnt sure and i used the bot to level all my alts so im clueless as to how to play on my own if i had to play on my own i wouldnt be playing thats how much i hate this game now. ill play around and see what i can come up with. And the reason i post this here is due to no other section will allow this question to stay without getting deleted.
I use Tuanha's paid paladin CR in HFC. First off, you want to turn off most of the settings in the general tab. Auto taunt, face, move, buff, etc. must all be off. If you have any on-use ability trinkets, turn that off too. They can be used as an additional defensive cooldown, and should be saved for such occassions on boss fights. Under the protection settings, set the rotation to maximum survivability so that it prioritizes SotR at 3-5 holy power instead of using other abilities. I get 90%+ uptime on SotR with Tuanha's CR, which is really impressive. Finally, make sure auto use of Divine Protection is turned off. Divine Protection is your second most important active mitigation ability, and you need to have it available for special boss mechanics. In addition to the mandatory settings above, I also suggest you set Word of Glory (self-heal with holy power) to be set to use whenever you get below 30-40% hp, but ONLY used with 5 stacks of Bastion of Glory. This will make you look like a pro who can self-heal when he's low because setting it to use only at 5 stacks of BoG will result in a 300k-400k heal on yourself. Also, since you set the rotation to max survive you will almost always have 5 stacks of BoG. The last setting you'll want to look at is Guardian of Ancient Kings. I set it to automatically cast whenever I get below 25% health. If my healers ever let me get that low, I've already more than likely used word of glory to heal myself, and my stacks of BoG will be gone. So, using GoAK at 20-25% health is a good idea because it will help them to catch up while keeping you alive. Good luck, and with the right configuration, Tuanha's routine is the BEST protection pally routine available.
