Ok, so I'm a tank you know.. and as a tank, I control the fights, minimising the damage my group takes. And as the tank, I'm expected to be the first person to attack, I'm expected to be ahead of everybody else, I'm expected to mark targets, and to mark targets during boss fights, I should know the boss fights, and I should be able to explain the fight to the other party members, and tell them how i want the fight to go, so they can follow orders.

That being said.. I run the same boss fights on a daily basis, and it gets repetitive explaining the fights, what im looking for, is an addon that i can type a battle plan into, and it saves the plan according to whatever mob I'm targeting. Next time I target this mob, I press a button, or type a command, and the fight is explained! shuzam! aaah.. im glad I didnt have to type it again..

The text limit on the notes should be unlimited, though it should indicate where your typing will break because of the character limit on in game chat messages.

Maybe set it up so that you can.. ctrl, alt, shift, right-click the boss or mob to open a menu to explain the fight.

You could enable mutliple explanations per mob, and show the titles of these explanations in tooltips.

Thanks for reading my post, if you know any addons that already do this, please link!

If you like my idea, please bump!

It sounds as a very good idear - no really !

And it could help peps out pugging raids and doing HC's and stuff .

Please make this happen since I don't know any AddOns doind this !

There is a mod called Ghost:Recon that remembers the abilities of mobs.  once you see them once, you get a little icon bar where you can shift click them to output them to chat.

I believe if you search for "tactics" or "battle planner" you maybe able to find a mod that allows for the kind of boss, strat planning you are looking for.  i've seen some tactical mods out there but it's been awhile.

I do have a small fear that you could possibly use this to heighten the primadonna tank syndrome though.  The tank that acts like a know-it-all and lets everyody around them know it.  I could be way off of course but I've definitely seen the type before.

haha.. well.. i admit to picking up this attitude when doing some really easy instances.. but usually i keep the.. "silent expert, be quiet and do the instance" attitude. Most people seem to pick up on this attitude, and take it on too, which makes for a fast, easy, no complaints run.

I'd rather have a primadonna tank than one that doesn't know how to do their job. Just ran VH last night and the tank failed so hard that I used my warlock to pick up the adds and drag them back through the tank's Consecrate. >.<

Here I was thinking that VH was a Tank and Spank.

tanking is, in most cases, the most challanging role in the game, though blizzard is fighting to make it easyer (too easy imo) especially when, as leveling, its in every players nature to try and do lots of damage, not trying to make things attack them.. healing comes more naturally, see low health bar, cast a heal.. easy peasy...

anyhow.. from what ive experienced, dps is easy, healing is easy, tanking is a challenge, and everybody depends on you. thats the reason i like to play it, because i like a challenge, and i dont like to depend on somebody else to do something so important.. when most of the time, the tank, makes or breaks the instance group.

we should have more tools to do our job.

Having played every tanking class and every healing class (save for a priest), healing is far less easy than you think.  You need to make split second decisions on heal priority, mana conservation and actual healing spell selection.  As it stands right now, pallys are still boned when it comes to 5 man healing when AOE dmg goes out.

DPS used to have a more involved job when CC was more prevalent.  In vanilla wow, hunters used to have to trap 1 specific, or sometimes 2 (if they were skilled enough in combat trapping) of the dragons per pack that you pulled across the bridge in UBRS going to Drak.  Now a days, with all the AOE tanking available to all the tanking classes, CC is largely a thing of the past.  Still, no not everything depends on you.  Everything depends on everybody doing their job.  No tank in the world can stay alive while the healer (no matter how good or bad) OOMs out from crappy DPS not killing mobs fast enough.

try looking for the keyword "minna" or "mina"  I think that was part of the name of a tactical mod.

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/minna-plan-raid-planner.aspx

all members must have the addon installed for it to be usefull.. not gonna happen with pugs, thanks though

tanking is still the hardest role to play in the instance, not as much as it used to be.. but i was exadurating the ease of other roles just a tad, to get my point across.

bump

Not sure if this works well or not yet, just found it myself. A mod called Tactics (GD)

http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/tactics-gd.aspx