Mana conservation tips:

• You're not a DPS class, and it's OK to drop a few things from your rotation to keep your run moving. If you run out of mana on every pull you're probably spending more mana than you should.
  
• If you're running out of mana, your primary concern needs to be threat:mana efficiency. Thus, your priority for attacks should generally be Seal > Judgement > Holy Shield > Consecration when tanking single targets.
  
• Watch your threat meter and don't spend mana you don't need to. If you have a massive lead over everyone else, just auto-attack and let OO5SR regen kick in.
  
• If your target is first for DPS to drop, build threat as normal, using all your tools. After it dies, judge/seal wisdom on any remaining targets.
  
• If your target is NOT first for DPS to drop, judge wisdom on it and remove Consecration from your rotation (maybe drop it once on the pull to ensure aggro, or if you're tanking more than 1 mob). If you're still having mana issues, drop Holy Shield as well. Auto-attack with SoR up generates plenty of threat to keep your target off the healers in low-damage situations like this.
  
• To reiterate an earlier point, stop to drink whenever possible. Even if you only get 5 seconds of drink time in between pulls, every little bit helps.
  
• To reiterate yet another point, BoW > BoK if mana is a concern. If you're running out of mana, that means you're not taking much damage, so the added HP and dodge from kings aren't necessary. You can always switch blessings when you get to the boss.

Alternately, I've found that chain chugging Super Mana Potions - while a little ham-fisted - works marvelously when you don't really feel like putting in any extra effort while working on your 25th bear mount.

I cannot recommend mana potion injectors highly enough.

Just a quick question.

What sort of stats am i looking for tanking the adds on felmyst? I'm new in my Guild and haven't been to sunwell yet, but the time to step up is coming. I have really only been gearing up in BT/MH and i still have no T6 tokens due to a burst in the lock, priest and paladin section of the guild.

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tanking the skeletons on felmyst really doesn't require that much. I basically did it with unenchanted t5 stuff the first time because our prot/ret paladin got lost. A question I'd have to those who are more experienced than me in tanking is how you handle the tps problem. I hardly manage to reach more than 900 and perhaps about 1200 while having wings up - little bit more on demon mobs of course. Is this the average I should expect or is there some way to improve it ?

Here is the character sheet of the paladin we had for our (<UnHoly>, Ner'zhul-FR) 1st felmyst kill :



Like Caydra said :

With a standard rotation those numbers are pretty much average, but part of the beauty of having tps scale directly with holy dps is you can always put in a little more.

Mind you the tanking concerns survivability along with threat, so as you raise one the other generally declines. The trick is finding the right balance of the two for a particular encounter.

Things like swapping a threat libram like [Libram of Divine Purpose] or [Libram of the Eternal Rest] in for [Libram of Repentance] or [Tome of the Lightbringer] depending on which you use gear wise, and whether you need single target or aoe. Don't forget that you can switch librams in combat, so you can start with threat, and swap to defensive once you have a comfortable threat lead.

A [Drape of the Righteous] is nice to have on hand to swap in for an extra boost when needed.

Use effect spell damage trinkets can also provide a nice burst, especially for JCs with [Figurine - Crimson Serpent] which has the stam and the use in one.

These are just a few examples, but it's always a survival vs. threat balance you can toy with.

Dendrah, 490 defense is so that you can never be crit by a raid boss (+3, -5.6% chance). It's not really an issue at lower levels, so I wouldn't worry about the crit cap (-5.0% - .2% per level above you on the character sheet).

However, defense is the best avoidance stat there is and you'll want to stack it anyway. There is no point at which defense is worse than dodge or parry rating as long as you have a shield equipped.

Ummm...no. Block isn't an avoidance mechanism. Furthermore, additional defense after uncrushable is worse per point than dodge.

For crit immunity, it's based off the level of your attacker, so it's less if you're in lower level instances:
Also, be aware that being crit in leveling instances is not at all the end of the world. They were designed around tanks that weren't perfectly geared.
Level 60 - 425
Level 61 - 430
Level 62 - 435
Level 63 - 440
Level 64 - 445
Level 65 - 450
Level 66 - 455
Level 67 - 460
Level 68 - 465
Level 69 - 470
Level 70 - 475
Level 71 - 480
Level 72 - 485
Level 73 - 490

That would have been with an experienced (and overgeared?) group though.

As for the skeletons on felmyst: they dont hit for much and once felmyst lifts off you are pretty much the only one taking damage. Picking up the skeletons is alot easier if you dont need any healing though. These days proximity agro and a melee swing/HS charge is all I need I think.

Our healers got so comfortable by me that I actually had to use LoH because noone bothered to be in healing range of me when the second beam decided to target me. (I HATE it when that happends)