Being rage starved, yeah sucks but reviewing your comments, I am thinking you are not using the correct rotation, and losing a lot of threat per rage.
That's rich, coming from a guy who doesn't even know the correct approach himself.
Pre-Raid, keeping shield block up should not be priority and should only be used to proc revenge AFTER you've already got revenge on CD. Which means Revenge > Shield Block > Revenge in that order.
Shield slam > Revenge > Shield Block > Sunder > Heroic Strike.
In a rage starved situation -
Shield Slam > Revenge > Sunder.
Spamming shieldblock is absolutely viable for threat by using a
Thorium Shield Spike attached to a
Force Reactive Disc.
I'll always use shield block to get instant revenge even if you don't tell me to. It's by far the highest TPR move the warrior has.
Even if you don't have this shield: 5 rage for 2 blocks, that means shield block is 3 rage only. IBR gives you 15 rage immediately, more than enough.
I'd always go for
Revenge -> Shield Block -> Shield Slam -> Sunder Armor -> Heroic Strike.
You can't always pool for shield slam in the beginning so you may start with Sunders until revenge procs itself, don't waste rage on shield block at the start. Wait to be crit on purpose and shield slam. (for a threat per second/rage perspective).
"Hey guys, please wait until I RNG out block/parry/dodge with dps"
^ This is how a failure of a tank plays.
@OP 1H weapons - you should put a Mitigation 1H and a TPS 1H. TPS Alcors - Julie's Dagger.
Julie is a toothpick which doesn't deal any damage, generates no rage, no threat.
Alcors costs thousands of gold on the AH. Have fun.
Do you even play on Kronos?
Gloves and boots enchant 3 DEF coreleather armor kit. While the recipe is in MC, this is obtainable w/o stepping foot in raid.
I agree. Would put 3 Def on Chest as well, over 100 HP enchant. With ZG and Kings, 7 stam is 88.6 HP. On that note: If you want to place stamina somewhere on your gear that is Chest/Wrist/Gloves/Legs/Boots, do it on the Wrists. 9 Stamina is worth 113.4 HP to Alliance. On Horde I'd put +3 Defense on all 5 parts of the gear if I had no troubles with money.
@Quel being TPS due to Human.... no. With this arguement (because Heroic strike spam clearly wasn't being considered here) you would want a Vis'Kag Bloodletter.
You must not compare a weapon which is easily obtainable with money to a rare Onyxia drop.
Shield Enchant 7 Stam > 2 Block. Block values in full T2 at 168 block, coupled with already having 75% block and dodge parry count first, 1 block % = 1 stam in full T2. I'll post another thread with the math if people wanna challenge this.
About your 1% block = 1 stamina, I'm don't know about that, since I believe 2% block enchant on shield is absolutely worthless in encounters in which you only tank a Boss.
Love the post, very informative. It seems I am getting a link that do not load though.
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For 8/5/38, I'd go with something like
this for raids. Personally I see little point in 3/5 TM, 2/5 is plenty. Improved Shield Bash is very useful for 5 mans and ZG.