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Braque · 05/22/08, 6:06 AM

How are other people handling the problem of going OOM?

I don't tank full time, but this of all things is becoming my main weakness as a tank as my gear improves.

Specifically, on ZA trash, during a bear run, when there is no time to drink, and very little scope to down-rank my threat output, I find myself going OOM even with 2 part T6, a spriest, and frequent mana potions! It's not game breaking, but it is annoying to go through 2 stacks of mana potions and still have threat dips due to mana starvation. If nothing else it's wasting a potion cooldown that should be saved for emergency health pots.

My tanking gear is a mix of paladin tanking items and more warrior orientated pieces, almost all of which is T6 quality. I use the spell damage mace from Hyjal as my main weapon.

In ZA I bless myself with BoK if I'm the only paladin, and BoW/BoK if there are 2 of us. I use spelldamage food for threat (though that could be sta/mp5), and elixir adepts/fortitude.

Is this a fundamental problem for paladin tanks? Or could I be doing something differently to make things go smoother? I don't feel I can risk down-grading my gear in a ZA run to take more damage and thus gain more regen. More importantly, I don't feel like I should have to do that, as none of the warriors I know suffer from rage starvation in the same content & gear-level.

05/22/08, 6:06 AM	#1444 (permalink)
Braque Von Kaiser Braque Dwarf Paladin <True Knowledge> Turalyon (EU)	Mana How are other people handling the problem of going OOM? I don't tank full time, but this of all things is becoming my main weakness as a tank as my gear improves. Specifically, on ZA trash, during a bear run, when there is no time to drink, and very little scope to down-rank my threat output, I find myself going OOM even with 2 part T6, a spriest, and frequent mana potions! It's not game breaking, but it is annoying to go through 2 stacks of mana potions and still have threat dips due to mana starvation. If nothing else it's wasting a potion cooldown that should be saved for emergency health pots. My tanking gear is a mix of paladin tanking items and more warrior orientated pieces, almost all of which is T6 quality. I use the spell damage mace from Hyjal as my main weapon. In ZA I bless myself with BoK if I'm the only paladin, and BoW/BoK if there are 2 of us. I use spelldamage food for threat (though that could be sta/mp5), and elixir adepts/fortitude. Is this a fundamental problem for paladin tanks? Or could I be doing something differently to make things go smoother? I don't feel I can risk down-grading my gear in a ZA run to take more damage and thus gain more regen. More importantly, I don't feel like I should have to do that, as none of the warriors I know suffer from rage starvation in the same content & gear-level.