WoW Rookie: Learning how to tank

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3-03-2011 @ 8:23PM

AlmtyBob said...

TIDY PLATES: THREAT PLATES! Highly customizable but even out of the box it will show a small green nameplate for the mobs you have adequate threat on and large red nameplates for mobs agg'ing on someone else. It is the single addon I couldn't live without as a tank and should be built into the Blizz UI.
Also works the opposite way for your DPS/healing roles so a great addon even for non-tanks.

As for your AoE issue: if you're not taking huge amounts of damage then you, as a tank, aren't required to focus on the mob you set as skull. If you glance at Omen and you have triple the threat on the mob than the nearest dps, go ahead and forget skull and start building up more threat on the other mobs. Don't wait until skull is down and people are burning down X before you start building threat.

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