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Originally Posted by promathus
in all my days tanking has never been to much of a problem of intelligence,
its all in the wrist...er keybingings i mean 
i hit 1 to sunder, a timer tells me when they expire so i can re apply before i lose all 5
(saves me from blowing a mercy point in devastate)
hit q to shield slam (when the cooldown timer tells me its up)
and hit revenge (2) when the warning tells me to
other than that im right clicking to use heroic strike until q or 2 is back up,
bloodrage is e for whens its up, and taunt is r
stances are f g and h respectively, tanked all of kara with my left hand
except for taunting i suppose
one more thing, intervene is better than you think, a nice macro is intervene immediately following /assist %t
you'll find that in most mt interfaces |
Devastate is far more useful then just refreshing all sunders. It creates a HUGE amount of threat which is very necessary for a good tank taking a lot of damage and thus being healed.
The sequence you've described for the most part works for what a tank needs to do for abilities but hitting the target alone isn't enough. They need to be smart enough to know when they need to use an ability.. shield slam, shield wall, shield bash, etc etc. Also, standing there like a noob will get you and your raid killed. If the tank doesn't have the skill to properly manage aggro and know what abilities they use to do it and how to do it (ie a tank with more skill than a single clicker) then s/he definitely doesn't have the skill to know how to do a given fight. Gone are the days of a tank standing there and getting beat on and healed through everything that happens. Tanks need to move, kite, get out of range in certain circumstances, etc. yous also mentioned intervene, useful trait but requires a tank to be aware of wtf is going on around him.
Single clicking tanks are as useless as.... well ****, I can't think of something as useless as that.