Tanking Illidan Stormrage - A guide for protection Paladins

im going to be tanking illidan for the first time tonight and i am petrified at the thought of it (we have killed him a fair few times, but its only ever been with our MT (warrior) tanking.

this guide has reassured me somewhat, since i meet and exceed pretty much all the requirements for it.

still, /scared x100.
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http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Tarren+Mill&n=Lolelf

Good luck, it's not that hard, i'd say tanking illidan is the easiest part of the encounter
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thanks, at the moment they are failing on council whilst i wait in orgrimmar (sitting out), getting more and more nervous -.-
im worried about how i have gimped my stats a bit to get unshearable though.
in my "unshearable" set, totally unbuffed im sitting at;

15.1k life
17k armor
29% dodge
19% parry
17.4% block (using libram of repentence to get unshearable)
498 defense
358 spelldamage


frankly im still not convinced that im well geared enough for illidan, but circumstances have conspired and i am the only one tonight who is available to do it because i havent got a full FR set.
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your stats are fine, i had less HP than you when i tanked him for the first time, and i think less dodge also.

Just don't panic, think about him like if it was Moroes.
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1-shotted that noob!
i was almost shaking throughout the fight, but he went down without a hitch.

now i feel like screaming out...this was a really important kill for me, since ive had a lot of grief recently from various people in the guild and generally people havent been taking me seriously as a tank, so to do it on the first try so perfectly feels sooo good.

thanks worldie for the support! <3
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yw, welcome to the club

altho you can't say you successfully tanked Illidan if you didn't take at least one shear
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hah legendary.
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Hum i did some improvements to the format, it should be more readable and less wall-of-text now.
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A little off Topic sry, but in the next few days our guild Will be doing Illidian for the first time and just would like to Know how SR should the Warlock tank have unbuffed.
Council took bout 7 goes, how many days or Weeks would be a rough idea for this fellow.

Illidan is "more or less" determined by the quality of your flame tanks. That is the hardest phase of them all in the fight to get right. When you get that down you are almost finished.

Haven't had the pleasure of seeing him yet (only hit council yesterday) but from what i've gathered the lock just needs capped SR gear, stamina and enough SD to keep agro. (Main part of damage done is in the tank'n'spank phase)

Oh err... since i'm probably going to be on the flames... is there anything else to do after their dead? And the usual kite plan is a triangle/box around the warglaive while dodging beams?
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For blish, capped. A unresisted hit will be 12k damage which will most likely oneshot him. During the Demon Phase there's almost no DPS on the boss, so the lock can just happily spam Searing Pain.

If you tank the flames you should just get a healing weapon/shield/libram and help healing, and maybe a little help in dpsing down the shadow demons, that's it.

Our complete uselessness in the rest of the encounters if we tank the flames is one of the reasons for which i'm for Paladins tanking Illidan. Warriors can still put some little dps and apply debuffs/intervene, we might as well go afk and nothing would change
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Mh i didn't talk about the Insigna since it's 3 minutes cooldown, that's it.

Scrolls of agility might be good to add, true.
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