Originally Posted by the KRIS
My situation's similar to yours, Kodus. I'm playing a feral alt to tank entry-level content like heroics and 10-mans while our mains farm Illidork. I've run into quite a different issue, though. I'm having a hard time staying alive versus heroic mobs, even though I have all the standard recommended blues for feral tanking (Heavy Clefthoof, Honored kara ring, Braxxis staff, etc). I'm sitting at about 15k health fully buffed, 22k armor, 25% dodge, and I'm getting SMOKED. The massive amount of healing I require causes our healer to pull insane threat, even though I usually work with a paladin. I can't imagine how bad a shaman or druid healer would get smeared across the floor trying to heal me. What can I do to solve this? I can't very well get my Earthwarden if I can't handle tanking the requisite Coilfang heroics... not even PUGs do Steamvaults normal on my server these days.
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Your gear is a mixture of good and bad. You posted *fully buffed* stats but that doesn't mean anything (To me fully buffed means Kings, Blood Pact, Fort, GOA etc), always post stats selfbuffed (ie. MOTW only). Anyway you are probably undergeared slightly (or just on par) for heroics (Which are more difficult than Karazhan in your situation). Your Dodge is average, health is fine, armor is fine, you havn't posted if you are crittable which is worrying.
Asking gear advice is not the goal of this thread, however I would suggest than you post which skill rotation you use for threat (Like Cat DPS it can make a huge difference). Having said that you shouldn't be getting hit *that* hard enough with your gear (I was tanking in similar gear both Heroics + Karazhan last year).
Oh Noes! trinkets can be very helpful during enrage/ability timers on bosses/mobs. I would buy Badge of Tenecity and try and get Moroes Pocket Watch also.