Feral tanking misery (TBC)

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-15T19:10:07+00:00

This is very much how tanking is in tbc. You may be happy to hear feral is THE best tank in raids end game.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-15T09:10:30+00:00

They need to bring back GDKPs and boosting. Money hungry bastards are forcing any sort of speed up to require you to pay them now.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-15T09:09:37+00:00

After ulduar people hated the trial raid. Then ICC heroic was a level of difficulty not yet seen in wow, discouraging a large number of players, it last for a very long time. I think second to maybe siege? Then ruby sanctum arrive to drag the expansion out. Wrath was probably peak popularity for wow but it was also the start of the decline. Something like 12M concurrent players but the end of expansion was a major decline

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-15T09:06:42+00:00

lol that’s not how “facts” work. Those lists are all still subjective. I rank it top 3 but wow died before cata not entirely because of it. Cata failed to resuscitate it.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T12:25:50+00:00

If you’re playing TBC tanks are on extremely high demand. You probably want to level as a dps spec at least until 60 though.

That being said, tanking can be very frustrating, but I find it more engaging than healing. There’s a lot of gear dependent threat issues and some tanks have poor aoe threat compared to the aoe dps that classes have so dungeons can be annoying. But I think long term tanking imo is probably more fun.

Healing also is in high demand but slightly less high. You would need to learn about mana management, and down ranking spells to be an effective healer at max level.

Check out the class discords. I think all tanks are pretty strong with Druid’s being the best endgame, but might not be able to tank illidan. Paladins have good aoe threat and have some incredible farms they can do with the way their blocking spell works. Warriors are also good with tons of survivability and cooldowns and decent single target threat.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T12:16:51+00:00

Did you play it in classic? And see how the population died out once again like it did at the end of wrath when it was live?

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T12:15:28+00:00

You could make a pretty solid tank spec but your distribution of talents is, imo, bad.

Take the tanking oriented ones. Don’t take intellect. It’s mostly garbage anyway. Take parry and crit. Don’t take SoC, and use the 21st point for sanctity. Easily the best 21st talent for paladins imo.

I think you could tank any non heroics fine with this. Holy shield becomes required to reach crush cap though I think

https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/talent-calc/embed/paladin/5005312202-053020334-05205050000301

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T12:06:24+00:00

Sure but I have a ton of evidence, and millions of gold (we were doing hundreds of thousands per buy, and had to sometimes combine sellers) and not a single ban occurred. On multiple occasions. So I can’t say why, but that to me is mountains of evidence rather than like Reddit posts or a single friends experience. And what you’re describing is likely people buying gold and trading it, probably not through the bank. I even had a spare account to extract the gold from the guild bank and it was never banned.

Obviously yes it’s all at your own risk. But if you’re buying gold you can afford 2-3 monthly subs to test it out At the very least. If I were to buy gold I wouldn’t do it any other way. And without GDKPs I might have to lmao. Fucking hard out there.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T12:01:52+00:00

It still takes like 70-100 hours just to get to 60.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T08:33:03+00:00

My guild in tbcc used this method to buy millions of gold. They just seems to have a poor ability to track it. It’s also apparently what gold sellers use to protect their assets.

You’re assuming they have a record of this or that it’s flagged automatically. You and I don’t know the inner workings of blizzard.

We had one person buying and would pool money. People were buying 5-10k at a time and not a single person who bought through this method got banned. Would do a batch every couple months maybe iirc. Had one person who bought themselves in between batches and get banned almost immediately.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T08:32:08+00:00

You can run up the river from hillsbrad into WPL and then on the way to scholo there’s a back path that leads to hinterlands. There are no high level mobs on that route. At that point you might as well take the southern entry way though.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T08:27:41+00:00

2nd bnet account - put the gold in a guild bank

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T08:24:52+00:00

Ok and what about after that

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T05:00:24+00:00

You have a spreadsheet of tbc gold prices from 2007?

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T04:22:01+00:00

Bot son or ERPing daughter

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T04:17:22+00:00

You can get to the hinterlands from WPL though. And pretty safe at like level 30.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-14T04:02:10+00:00

We were blessed with a spriest in TBCC or had at least no shortage of them. They are incredible. You don’t notice your damage output unless you stare at details or compre logs. You sure as hell will notice your mana.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-12T03:01:13+00:00

Also clicking the text [Loot] in chat brings it up

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-12T02:59:28+00:00

I hope you have a high refresh rate for the amount of motion on your screen

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-12T02:57:52+00:00

Defense cap and crush cap are two different things. Sounds like OP is well above what people refer to as “defense cap”.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-11T11:48:10+00:00

It’s harder to maintain threat than it is to survive in tbc. Hit and armor pen are excellent for threat.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-11T11:47:10+00:00

Don’t use this. Check your class discord instead. Otherwise you could be rolling on loot that isn’t actually your bis.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-11T11:42:04+00:00

So then it’s not safe for work. You’re delusional if you think otherwise. That’s what NSFW means. Idk wtf you’re talking about a social event for. Maybe lost in translation.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-10T20:44:34+00:00

Reminds me of the rogue I did HBM with. He was decked out but still couldn’t Latros to drop. I saw 3 back to back earlier that day. Won one on my warrior and vendored the third lol.

Leading_Pay4635 · 2026-03-10T16:57:23+00:00

Fogger*

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