Tankadin primer sent to brother planning to make a tankadin

I'm sure there are things I missed and things I didn't need to say, but I just sent him this massive text dump to get him started and to try and get him 'shocked out' of the DPS mindset he has from playing rogues and hunters.

The tone and style is also written mindful of the fact that I sent it to my brother, but I still thought it would be handy here for those not looking for reasons to take offense at things I say.

I read through most of it, and skimmed the end. Nothing I can really disagree with other than some things that are just personal preference, but one thing caught my eye. 15 fps? Heh, I get 15 fps in the empty parts of Shatt. 20 is a good day. I don't know what kind of computer your brother runs though, so maybe 15 is a good number for him.
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People try to start conflicts on a public internet forum?

NEVAR!

Good read though. I like it, W.

errrr ... edit: There isn't a faction specific blessing. It's the seal.

We all have the same blessings.
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I'm shooting for 15fps in a run as a way of telling him, and I forgot to include this part, to cut down on his addons and graphics setting if his fps gets low enough to cut into his reaction time. I'll have to add that last part next time I talk to him. Its a balancing act though. I once cut my graphics down so much to boost FPS that I didn't see the spell effects of the boss I was tanking and so didn't see the masive AoE burst of damage he kept popping... That was the final boss in Slabs, who has the pulsing thing going on on the floor. I cut it out to save performance... but its pulse pattern warns you that you're about to get smacked. Three wipes later I corrected my situation.
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Very nice! I have a friend stressing to me the beauty of decursive, but I didn't think it was necessary. I'm rethinking that now.

So I've been healing forever and never had decursive.

I have been using grid. Is it fair to say that grid is an acceptable substitute?

I found decursive to be much more essential Pre-BC when you'd click the Decursive icon and it'd heal the next affected party/raid member. I remember Lucifron fights on my mage being 90% decursive spamclicking. Nowadays I just have remove lesser curse macro with mouseover and the groups dragged out.

Should probably check it out though.

Also, is there any addon setup that could be considered "essential lite"? I generally don't like having more than 3-4 addons running, and am wary of any addon that modifies the look of the general interface.
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Nice piece, I'll definitely think about decursive, though I usually just clique my way out of those situations.

If your brother played hunter, he should have some basic idea of aggro - thus he should be very fine with that text. If every tank I've ever been with in any level instance knew that, I'd have to tell them alot less. Everytime. Everywhere. Gahh...

And thanks for the /sleep tip, I just haven't been hardass enough I realize.
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That decursive lights up is why I advocate it. There's nothing to learn. You just put the addon into the Addons folder, log in, and wait for a red box to light up on your screen. When it does, you click it.

It's a wack-a-mole debuff removal.

I find that even when tanking, I'm responsible for 90%+ of the debuff removal because the rest of the group, PUG or guild or friends, can't find their spells...

And nearly evertime a CC hits me and stuns, petrifies, or polymorphs me; we wipe... Even if removal would be an instant cast click and the entire rest of the group has a spell to remove it...


On the note on blessings and seals and me getting them mixed up... Oh well. point still gets across. Show you how much I use that blood elf seal.
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