Tank Hard!

Kadomi over at Tank Like a Girl has posted a nice write up on Level 80 Tanking Consumables.
I used to always use Flask of Fortification, but I am finding that Flasks just aren’t giving the punch I want these days. My new combo of choice is:

Battle - Guru’s Elixir - 20 to all stats [...]

The Oculus is not your standard instance in any way. There are several elements not found in other places that make it a very interesting instance.
Once you enter the portal to the instance, you’re confronted with a long, circular hallway. The trash needs to be cleared entirely up until reaching a portal on the other [...]

There area bunch of new/reworked warrior glyphs in the next patch and they are all awesome.
Glyph of Bloodrage – reduces the health cost of your Bloodrage ability by 100%. (up from 50%).
Not a huge deal, especially in a raid when you are going to be healed anyway, but it’s a nice change for soloing [...]

TankingTips posted up a reminder of the changes that have come about with the increased cooldown to Shield Block. Basically it is something I have been advocating in game moreso than here on the site, but here it is.
Defense is where you want to be.
http://www.tankingtips.com/2008/12/12/how-good-is-defense/

So you’re level 80 and getting all those nifty gear upgrades. Now you just have to decide what to enchant them with! Here, I will break down some options for level 80 tanking enchants.
Level 80 Weapon Tanking Enchants
Let’s start with our weapon. This piece of gear has many options depending on what [...]