Can you tell what stance a tank is using?

[Finu]

In a raid, during a battle (not after via combat log, SWStats etc)?

Other then if you see him shield block (buff on him)/if you see the shield block animation, which you should, meaning that he's in defensive?

[Morail]

Taunt and shieldblock are good giveaways. No visual way to tell unless he switch stances theres icons above his head briefly.

[xmuskrat]

Taunt and shieldblock are good giveaways. No visual way to tell unless he switch stances theres icons above his head briefly.

I liked WC3. You could tell defensive stance if they looked like they were trying to take a dump.

[Seluhir]

Abilities are really your best bets for telling... whirlwind = zerker, taunt/shield block = defensive, mocking blow/thunderclap = arms(for a few examples)

[Thors]

Huh, pardon my noobness....

But why would you need to know that? :ponder:

I'm the tank (well, when I play my warr :grin: ) and I don't see why other members of the party would need to know which stance I'm in.

[Twoflower]

to be able to point theyr fingers at you and yell "his fault his fault, he was in zerker stance when we wiped"

[Aesop]

If that is what you are failing at ... buy a new tank please :)

[ruinz]

But why would you need to know that? :ponder:

I'm the tank (well, when I play my warr :grin: ) and I don't see why other members of the party would need to know which stance I'm in.

You're not being a noob, that would be my question as well. Whilst I'm perhaps unfairly second-guessing the OP, it sounds distinctly like the sort of question asked by someone who wants to tell other people how to play their character.

Personally, I think whenever anyone dictates such things to you, you can tell them that the day they pay your monthly fee is the day they get to tell you how to play.

As Twoflower says, people love to find someone and blame a wipe on them with very little logical justification. Due to mob psychology, other idiots will often join them in the finger-pointing once it's started. Logs encourage this because people will see that so-and-so cast such-and-such spell and they will magically determine this was thus the cause of the entire wipe (often when there's no possible way it was the case).

I saw a great case of this a few days ago, watching a deeply pathetic ZG raid over a friend's shoulder. They were all using an autoheal mod (SIGH) because the Priest Class Leader insisted they must (SIGH) except my friend, who was a non-member who had been added to the raid because they seemed to be having so many problems. The Priest Class Leader (who later proved their amazing stupidity by insisting that the Mages were failing to decurse Mortal Strike - SIGH) attempted to pin all the blame on a wipe on my friend for not having the right mods, despite the fact that we could plainly see she was the only thing keeping the raid alive at all (as all the other healers kept healing the same target at once for zillions of HP more than it had!). At least in this case no-one joined in the finger-pointing, but it's clear that people in WoW will seize any excuse or percieved "fault" to use to as a blame-weapon in the fallout following any kind of difficulty or wipe.

It also serves to show, given that Priest Class Leader's later actions, just how stunningly stupid most people who try to tell others of different or even sometimes the same classes how to play themselves are. A guild I was in had a Mage who'd once been a 60 Priest, and who insisted on attempting to dictate how the Priests should play (despite being a spaz as a Mage and giving very poor advice to the Priests). She'd never shut up, and the guild leadership, none of them being Priests themselves never understood quite how stupid and unecessary her "advice" was.