You learn something new every day. Thanks Theras, I did not know that - while this hardly changes the need for threat (again invalidated by taunt during a transition) and whatever small DPS I can add, I bet our casters would appreciate me being able to keep JoW up.

What about Halazzi though? I'm a Saber Lash soak and Lynx spirit tank and also do not auto-attack Halazzi while waiting for the Lynx to pop.

For bear tanking our taunt is best on the bear form (wait for him to transform, attack once, then taunt, never seen that fail, on the troll he can lose target after the first attack meaning your taunt can fail). If tanking troll, make threat, then go to auto attack on bear, stay close to the other tank in case you need to bop pull him due to the taunt issue.

Tanking the bear is more interesting, let the first tank get aggro, then generally catch up to them, and pass them for the transition (no need to taunt), saves any taunt issues on this, and lets you be in position to bop them if needed, bear hits like a truck, but not often enough, its a bit yo-yoey, so try and save pots for this part of the fight rather than blowing them while making threat. Ideal situation I have found is ideally dual avoidance trinkets for this guy, blowing 1 in each phase (or 2 if needed) to get past his massive damage potential, of course you still want about 16K+ buffed hits, else his damage can be horrible (2 bleeds + melee at the same time... ouch).

On Nalorakk, just hit the sucker, most other tanks don't generate enough threat on the troll form to out threat you attacking if you want to, and the bear is short enough to blow through (its not a threat gain phase really, its survival, the main threat boost is the troll phase). Being parried is less of an issue than the bleeds and suchlike (and as people said he seems parry gib immune), so just go for it.

Nalorakk does appear to non-resist taunts, however he does bug (or rather he doesn't the mechanics of our taunt requiring a target mean we simply fail, and then the taunt fails for the rest of that phase for some reason). Watch your taunt times (some people never see this effect, when you do you will get really annoyed by it... :P I love tanking troll, but my taunt timing sucks for it). Always try and be 2nd on the aggro list for this reason, its possible to do this fight with 2 dead tanks (our record is 3 tank deaths in the fight, I died on bear due to a silence + mangle [we messed up and changed tanks part way through], warrior taunts, I got ressed, warrior dies to mangle + bear on a failed taunt, I tank, die to mangle + bear, dpsers kill him :P).

On Halazzi, you might as well attack to keep up wisdom on the boss (don't bother loldps if you can, just keep wisdom up, then pull the lynx). One key is to this is take the first lash of each phase to ensure you are in the right position, then blow an avoidance trinket, this severely reduces the amount of healing you need, in the final phase, take the first lash (for positioning) then blow divine shield, will keep you standing with no healing, again make it easy on your healers.

SoV is highly situational, and generally takes a back seat to SoR for single-target threat generation, but don't forget about it in situations where you can safely stack it up to 5 then judge-switch to SoR for 10-15 seconds of massive burst threat. Most fights with aggro drops are good candidates for this trick, as it essentially takes a layer of complexity out of the fight by trivializing the transitions (i.e. Leo).

If your DPS has any issue at all with the threat ceiling on the bear boss, I highly recommend that you tank the troll phase. He attacks crazy fast, so your HS threat generation will be through the roof. As an added bonus, this gives your healers a break given how much damage your block value mitigates, so they can catch up with the bleed damage on the other tank. The bear phase does deal far more damage, mostly from bleeds, so your higher-health tank should pick up that phase if survivability is a concern. Every time I've been in on a bear boss kill, I've tanked the troll phase and it's worked great.

Also, your warrior should use his non-tanking phase to build his rage bar to 100 so he can dump threat after the taunt. If he's unloading enough to pull aggro while you build threat then he's the one doing something wrong, not you. Dual-tanking isn't an e-peen contest to see who can generate the most threat -- it's an exercise in teamwork, and it should be treated as such.

While we're on the subject, has anyone run into any problems recently with Righteous Defense not working on warriors? I've had a number of issues lately where I hit the button, it eats my cooldown and mana, but does nothing. I'm not talking about a resist, I'm talking about the spell literally doing nothing. It's hit and miss; sometimes it works fine and others I can't taunt off a warrior to save my life (ok, his life). And for some reason, it's only when I try to use Righteous Defense on a warrior -- on every other class it works fine. This is obviously a problem for the bear boss in ZA, but even moreso it's an issue in Hyjal with all the AoE waves and Fury warriors going on crit streaks and pulling aggro on 2-4 mobs at once. I've ruled out my macro as the source of the problem, because the same thing happens when casting directly from my spellbook. I've tried taunting the target I want to pull as well as taunting the warrior himself, and still it fails. I can't tell if it's a mod issue or just Blizzard having a buggy game. Has anyone else seen this?

I haven't done the fight, and have no idea how critical threat is, but if it's not very, you could try using [The Decapitator]. 3 minute cooldown, but it never misses.