The Light and How to Swing It: The low level tank part 1

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12-05-2009 @ 7:24PM

paul said...

Be careful in the very lowbie dungeons. Ive seen way too many Paladins, who are usually ok at the game but might be new to tanking, try to pull multiple mobs in Deadmines etc.

There are 2 problems with this. Firstly, paladins get consecration at level 20, and if you are below that, then its going to be hard to AoE tank anything. Just pull one at a time, use CC and kill orders if you have to.

Secondly, healing can be incredibly hard at the low levels, harder than you would think. (Sometimes its could be argued its harder than it is at 80). At around level 18ish, your healers will only have a few spells, and usually that is a big slow heal that will likely heal for over 50% of your health, and costs a lot of the healers mana. An average healer would be able to cast this about 8 times before going Oom, so be careful that you dont take too much damage by pulling too many, and try and get as much health as possible if you have a healer less than level 20, to try and give them more breathing space.

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