To kick or not to kick?
 

Hi folks!

Quick question: while main tanking a raid or raid-esque mob (ie, Vindi), do you kick? My baby warrior is (kinda sorta) approaching Level 60, and I'm curious for your input on whether kicking is worth the risk of a big riposte? To me it seems like it wouldn't be?

Thanks all!

I generally try to avoid kicking when tanking 55+ mobs, also giants and dragonkins generally (basically stun immune things that can hit hard).

The exception is if a terrible spell is being cast, as I believe kick has a better chance to interrupt on hit than a normal hit (and defiantly better than not kicking at all!)

TBH I haven't given it a terrible amount of thought and look forward to seeing other posters responses.

Isn't Kick just free damage? Unless you're using it as a spell interrupt, why wouldn't you burn it at all times the second it comes off of cooldown?

Because some of the mobs you fight as a 60 warrior can riposte it for 700 damage.

This fuckn game amiright?

The alternative is you can stand there with your hands off the keyboard auto attacking so why not

Yes! This is exactly my concern. I haven't parsed it but I guestimate kick is worth 1-3ish dps , which is nothing to sneeze at considering the lengths we go to to upgrade our weapons by a similar amount.

On the one hand, I want all the white damage (aka threat) I can muster, but on the other hand I don't want to introduce an additional opportunity for Mr. Vindi to thwack my squishy self for another 700.

kick is nowhere near 3 dps. its like 0.3 dps.

Good to know, thanks! I had figured 10-20 per kick per cooldown plus some misses, but I was probably under estimating the number of misses.

Do you kick while raid tanking?

generally i dont; but i checked for logs where i have and i had no joke 0.3 dps. kicks do like 10 damage when they land and are on like a 6 second cooldown.