Warlock Pet Tanks Satharion

[Pippin]

Yea that's my guild, the orc shaman in that video is me ( green cloak is about all you can see due to low quality though ).

The peeps on the warlocks den would love to hear from. He is kinda a star.

[torytrae]

Interessting. Do you think a lock group would be able to do heroics at 80 with the new pet buffs?

[Multibocks]

LOL here we go with the new flavor of the month, ALL LOCK GROUP! That is until Blizzard catches wind of it (like the blood presence stacking) and nerfs them into the ground. /sadpanda

[mrmcgee21]

No way, the VW has almost no threat gen. The thing does about 500-1k TPS which is just awful for any kind of instance ( barely covers heal aggro ), in Sarth 3 drakes you don't actually DPS sarth for awhile into the fight ( once all 3 other drakes are dead ) and at that point your drake tank picks it up and tanks. The VW could never solo tank a mob that is being dps's as it has no true taunt and awful threat gen, so no worries there. It is a damn brick shit house when it comes to taking damage though =). For trash, maybe could work it out as trash die's so fast a VW could jsut delay it's arrival at your caster's doorsteps. However on a heroic boss it would just lose threat around 90% and never get it back.

[Bigfish]

the VW building threat isn't really an issue, so much as one of do you have the time and patience for it to do so?

[Maxion]

Yeah, I solo stuff with my vw tanking all the time, works much better than a felguard in every other way, just gotta have the patience to wait for it to build up threat.
Threat management is key, and long term survival soloing a hard fight is much about that anyway when using a pet tank.

Soloed the raptor boss in ZG a couple weeks ago on my lock using VW to tank with demon spec.

Another important key to vw tanking threat is the demonic empowerment ability which increases its treat output.