Glad I stuck around, at first I thought you were just gonna show retail tanking.

outstanding guide. Thank you for going into the deeper complexities. This is going into my classic guide playlist.

I was planning to level a warrior but stay away from tanking, but after watching this I think I’ll put my strafe tanking ability to use :) Thx for the awesome guide!

As someone who revels in Tanking i heartily appreciate and approve this video!

What I enjoy most is you cover the CONCEPT of tanking. It's not about the class as much as a wholistic approach. This is A+. I raided Nax as a rogue. Knew do inside out but had no idea just how technical tanking was. I appreciate them now. Ty!!!!

Really like your fresh 60 tank build, makes a lot of sense.

Real nice actually informative videos. This channel needs more attention!

You did a really good job showing some in depth tips and tricks on being a good tank without support. I wanna see a video on group dynamics, no one seems to mention it. Like how important it was to pick a kill target, backup kill target, and varied CC. How to work with your group comp, what to do with two saps, limited CC, etc. Also the incredible smoothness that comes with playing with people that know their toolkit. I started as a prot warr and moved to a hunter in classic, one of the things I brought over was how diverse and helpful a hunter can be to a tank without sacrificing too much DPS. And the same goes for many classes, The resto druid that will root targets himself to stall for the tank to get there; the feral druid that will sprint, pop form, and taunt something back to you. Mobility was a really big issue with warrior tanking often requiring alot of practice to be able to catch things that ran off because the hunter didn't understand kill priority. Everything you laid out in this vid goes alot more in depth, but I can't tell you how frustrated I used to get when it would be four mobs, first skull, second X, third sap, fourth sheep, and sheep would break and my healer is getting bent because the hunter couldn't be bothered to step in. Tanks were, and probably will be the strategists of the group. Our job wasn't just to get punched and make sure you didn't get punched, we dictated kill priority, CC priority, and when 1/5 of us was a dipshit, we picked up the slack. That comes with an amazing nuance that I have never seen anyone cover. You have to know how mob damage/CC abilities/Armor apply to you and the four that came with you. Spellcasters are always first kill, ones with disruptive CC before just "high damage/low armor". Tank mobs are always last, high melee DPS is always either a CC target or second kill for weak armor, etc. Do you have an LOS position that once you've marked and CC'd you can pull them to? Almost mitigating damage to anyone entirely? The truth is that being a really good tank works well, but one of the things I loved about classic is that if you grouped with a bunch of nubcakes you have to teach them their own toolkit, or leave. Your pick, you're the tank, you'll be back in the same instance 20m or less.

Wow! Great tips here! Good tanking is more complex than most realize!

Very well done. I have tanked for a very long time and was very impressed with the video and advice.

Outstanding video, thank you x

Great video, keep ‘em coming!

Glad I got to see this guide. Video is really in depth, and informative. Grats on the welp btw lol.

Great video this is exactly the type of info I was looking for.

Thanks a lot for this video, it's great! I really like getting tactical mastery in my builds and the ones you posted don't use it. I guess I can get used to not having it, but being able to berz -> intercept -> d stance has always been a huge tool in my tanking experience

Yo Punkrat, this beat is sick. You should use it as background music in some of your other videos! Love your content and just saw your video on the Blizzard Employee leak! Great stuff and keep it up!

I loved tanking in vanilla. Made me feel like a massive pro because so many other people were so bad at it.

Looks good! I definitely want to be the big boss tank on my server and will use all the tricks I can get.

Thanks mate, just got grilled in strath live for not holding aggro fighting the zombie mobs. It was getting harder to tank as a 60 fury war so glad to have watched this

I like the advice you give but the video does not match your advice. If you try to tank 10 mobs you are done for. No healer can outheal that. And your damage mitigation will never be so high. Not to mention that you can't kite-tank range mobs and your mobility is shit as you can't charge or intervene in classic. Also you will have a lot less rage. Most of your advice is correct though. Like the nameplates and using low rage attacks. Kite tanking has one big downside though. Especially in groups with people you don't know. If one fucker fucks up and aggros one of the mobs you are kiting... you can't just taunt him back and get aggro on him again. Also other Melee DDs need to move constantly to keep doing damage. So if they don't or can't your high level tanking might end up hurting the group more than it helps. It's not just stupidity that keeps many tanks standing still but consideration for their melee DDs. As a lot of damage in classic comes from auto attack you can really impair your rogues abilites to do damage with that. The consumables were new to me. Definetly trying that but since you are much less mobile (on the map) in classic farming might be a little more time consuming so I probably won't have these things on hand all the time. Great Video nontheless as it does something very important that many guides miss. It tells you HOW to play. Not just what to play. It's a little strange that not many "guides" cover this.

Aye brah this was by far the best tanking guide I have ever seen. I leveled as prot back in vanilla. It was the most brutal and gruesome experience ever. So bad that when I hit 60, BC had just dropped a month earlier so I retired my warrior never to play him again. Back then we were all NOOBS. But if I had known even half of this info, I would have had a better tanking experience. When WOTLK came out I was a holy pally but I always wondered why tanks and rogues always jumped around while fighting. Now I know straffing and jumping is the key. If you could answer a questions for me. The straffing, jumping and camera method you mentioned can that apply for all classes especially in pvp? Can't wait for classic to drop even though im going to start with a mage, after seeing this video I will DEFINITELY reroll a warrior. Thanks brah you are the MAN!!!

A good refresher for this week!

My main in vanilla was a priest and I found switching to warrior to tank a lot of fun because I was already used to paying attention to everything going on. It also gave me the appreciation to keep tabs on my health and help the priests threat by kiting and moving around.

Great video, just not sure about the background music..

Nice guide, some info drop on the warrior macros would probably be appreciated as well.

This! This is what i am talking about! When i ask i fellow warrior how to tank, this is what i mean. Thank you.

Hey Punkrat, great video! I remember tanking in classic wow on my tauren warrior, but I was never on your level with the different pots and stuff. You have some GREAT tips on here and I look forward to getting back into all of this. That said I have to ask, what song is playing I'm the background? It sounds amazing and I can't seem to find it anywhere lol. I'd really appreciate link! Thanks man, and keep up the great work, I love your vids. Have a good one!

Great video. I plan on playing a Warrior so this helps.

Great guide!

Bloodrage made agro as well in vanilla i know kungen used it don't know if it will be like that in classic its a hidden thing cant remember where they confirmed it

Another great video punk!

Cant wait. I love war tank in vanilla and bc

Awesome vid!

Subbing for this video. Great guide.

well done

Good video. How will strafing effect the mele dps you are grouped with the tank? the mele dps will have to move when the tank strafes lowering their dps

l like your playstyle, remind me of my own, i rolled a rogue in vanilla +a warr alt- pvp and semi tanking mostly for friends dungeon runs,and i would actually, ditch talents for stance dance and imp sunder and put them into unbridled wrath, cuz all your regen generators beside your normal ones also caused alot of threat,same goes for bloodrage,also i would spam alot of battle shouts in raids, and demo in instances, that is also metric ton of threat,just its divided by number of players you buffed on number of mobs that are actually hitting you. Also would take 2 from imp armor from items,and put into silece on shield bash,,cuz people where shit at silencing =D(talking bout dungeons).Never had any rage issues on warr so all reducing rage for abilities where not necessary..and yeah,force reactive disc

The aoe slow in fury is what I need on my warrior. It'll make it feel more like retail tanking to me on that part since I'll feel more in control of the mobs and when I'm gonna get hit. I'm just amazed at the learning curve with vanilla tanking and I love it. I just couldn't stand grinding mobs to level up and kinda feel like dungeoning to 60 or power leveling my Friend so he will power level my warrior.

yes but how do i stance dance? can you make a new classic video focused on this @punkrat

What is your opinion on Impale Prot? It was essentially king of the mountain back in the day, providing a mixture of high threat gen, high damage (for a tank, anyway), and retaining higher mitigation than fury tanking.

I'm getting into tanking now and I can say this is a lot of obscure information that is rarely discussed. It's good to know. My one question is, when you talk about strafe kiting, how exactly are you moving backwards? While still keeping everything else front-facing?

One note. Battleshout generates threat the same way healing allies does. Meaning the more allies you apply battleshout too the more threat it does.

Well i am a main holy priest in vanilla, but i really wanna switch things up this time. And really wanted to main a warrior as my new role of playing in classic, my friend told me ""i better never play tank because you gonna get flammed if you do one thing wrong"" but i wanna ignore that fact and wanna be a warrior and be a main tank for a guild for who knows. but i am happy to learn from this video and what you have said, encourge me to play one so thank you so much Punkrat !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When you hold down the right mouse button with A/D, and they are bound to their normal turn keys, you are effectively strafing too right? So you can sorta just kite sideways, no? :)

I don't think I've ever seen strafe kiting as a tank. Very interesting idea but god damn it looks spazzy. Great video though with lots of good information.

Thanks great vid !

Great video. Quick question though? At 3:55 what abilities are those on 2, 5, Shift-2, Shift-3 and E ? This looks like retail.

4:21, 4:22, 4:26 At those instances you switched between "A" & "D". When I do that I need to rotate the camera 180 degrees, but yours is practicly still. How?! I did this already back in 2004, and have only figured out how to do it by rotating the camera.

cool vid man. what you think of cleave? more of a rage dump thing? i remember using in dungeons and it being pretty good

I actually learned new stuff. I.e. not a low effort video. GJ

One other thing you should mention is to make sure to turn the mob you are tanking so that the back of the mob is facing the raid. This will reduce the amount of parries and blocks on your melee dps classes and will give a small boost to your overall raid dps. Also backstab rogues and feral druids (basically a backstab rogue) will thank you because they won't have to chase the back of the mob to dps. Healers will also thank you because there are some mobs and bosses that do a cone of AOE damage in front of them and if the mob is facing the raid then everyone will take damage.

gonna tank for the first time ever for my pals, I can't let em down so I'm doing my homework. Good video.

Does the enrage talent affect shield slam damage?

This may sound weird but... I need the song to rap on it, also great guide ^^

Hey you talk about strafe kiting to break attack timers, is that because the mob will stand still as long as your in their hit range and once you step out they have to take a few steps to get back in range? The reason I'm asking, im wondering if you essentially should be on a constant move during any multi enemy fight?

How do I know? I was hardcore tank in vanilla, clearing BWL and naxx

Ive never gotten the hang of strafe kiting. I always get dazed even rebinding strafe.

Hey man can you make a video entirely on the strafing? I can’t seem to figure out how to strafe and hit my buttons at the same time

As a Feral tank I was hoping to find something new, but naah :P OP warrior guide tho!

What about needing to hearth back for repairs during long dungeons lol

You forgot Either have a pure dmg alt to keep your warrior tank financially alive Or grab a guild willing to pour money into your repair bills and stuff

Does Demoralizing Shout generate threat if mobs already have it applied? Can it be spammed?

They key to raid boss tanking. Spam sunset armor. Even after 5 stacks. It keeps build high threat.

Background music is banging.

best tips for sure

To add to your aoe threat (via on hit damage) you can use crystal spires so you have another thorns / essence of pure flame. It's from the crystal spire questline in ungoro that eventually teaches you certain crystal combinations provide corresponding buffs. Do you think protection is outdated now? A lot of guilds on ND-horde (even myself atm) are rolling with fury-defiance or fury-anger management/impale. Feel like im starting to see prot a lot less these days.

Hey big homie should I level a warrior second so I can feed it gear? I want to be a tank but know how shitty it can be to farm. When I played vanilla our tanks were always crying about repairs. If we didn’t foot the bill and feed them consumables they were always threatening to leave the guild for greener pastures

Oh so we have heroic leap in classic? Can't seem to find that skill at the trainer.

Rebind A and D to strafe and remove camera spring, this is the best tank advice ever.

Okay, yeah I may as well try to tank some. I really want to play arms but I can get gear by tanking cuz most guilds are good about gearing tanks. I tanked heroic jaina and I hadn't even tanked a raid boss before that, I did alright too. I'm sure I can handle it. I also really want thunderfury and tanking is the best way to get it so, yeah alright. Leveling up I can still tank dungeons with an arms build yeah?

isnt battle shout good for AOE threat. ive heard that form a lot of people

Just the info my noob self was looking for, thanks.

Whats the Jump spell you are using? at 2:57

Dank vid bro

where can i find the addon KTM?

do you level as a tank? or should youswitch to tanking spec at 60?

dude, your tanking mobility is amazing :D i was a stand here type of tank, but now i'm going to be a damn captain america!

what race is he playing at @6:05? Looks epic in that armor

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I came for the comments also. I leveled one wrrior to 111 using FURY from the beginning..it was alright. I just made a another warrior using and starting off with TANK....soooo much better, Since I move around instead of standing in one space.I have heard about HAMSTRING,which I did not jse one the other warrior. I just jump and move around,etc, which keeps you safer than just STANDING THERE. GOOD CONTENT by the way

what rage add on is this ?

Would you level prot or respec at 60 only?

Kind of random, but the punkrat logo is fucking sweet I love it

Are the builds provided applicable for WOW Classic in it's current state?

what professions would you use?

Finally a useful guide!

I play as a warrior tank on classic. Kiting mobs is not an option. The idea is to hold the mobs in one spot in front of you,stun and aggro them,then DPS players will do the rest. DPS players just don't like moving at all. Thank you for your video.

background song anyone?

should i level as a prot warrior with the prot talents?

Playing Wow Classic Hardcore with this guide

I feel like I watched a guide on how to be a gansta.

And for tanks other than warriors? What talents or abilities? What tricks are there?

20 sec in: How did you get water on the motherboard? Vid end: Nice vid man I plan on going healer in classic but I may make a tank alt and I will keep this in mind

Could turn down the music a bit in the future. Isolated the music track, gets you insane to listen to. Ty for UL.

I love how this guide is for classic showing a bunch of shit that isn't even in classic.

I'm on of those people that are pretty scaried to tank lol, I feel like it's a huge responsibility and all eyes are on you, I'd be pretty sad to slow down a raid and while I know every other role should feel the same when cooperating with a large group of people, I feel overwhelmed when tanking lol, even if I know I'm better than the average but not the best. It's because I feel like I don't know enough even if I studied the boss.

so, classic has released, I'm a level 25 prot warr, who fails to get aggro because I am often rage starved. Any tips?

Hey guys, here's a question: is it worth leveling in prot spec if you have a pocket healer with you? I mean, you can pull multiple mobs at once and maintain good survivability and aggro while generating lots of rage and being healed. Or maybe you can do the same thing in dps spec and prot is completely irrelevant in any situation while leveling?

Does anyone know where Punkrat is from ? he sounds kinda Swedish/Norwegian. Anywhom amazing guide! Classic can't come soon enough. ^^

No druid included?