Originally Posted by Tamral
Ultimately, skill always > gear. Gear will greatly enhance your ability to display skill, and the combination of both leads to ezmode raiding. Ultimately, you can try to tank all bosses in a single set of gear, but that ultimately results in making some bosses for which your gear is not perfect much harder. The best players will ultimately overcome it, but just because you’re that damn good and you can eat soup with a fork, doesn’t mean soup is meant to be eaten with a fork. You’d be amazed how much easier it is with a spoon.
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Nice wall of math in your former post, crit me for 9001 =D
Anyhow, about skill...
Is it just me, or is tanking really that hard? What you need is just proper UI, some situational awareness and not sleep on your keyboard. I have a confession to make though: I use macros, and I use them a lot. It just makes things so much easier, even if they're not always the optimal way to do things. For example:
/cast [modifier:shift] Thunder Clap; [modifier:ctrl] Demoralizing Shout; [stance:2] Revenge; [nostance:2] Defensive Stance;
/cast Shield Block
/cast Heroic Strike
/startattack
/cancelaura Greater Blessing of Salvation
Binds both important debuffs conviniently on one button, less bars etc, helps keep up shield block and heroic strike, while giving me free finger for movement (strafe in Q with mouse). Also applying debuffs won't affect shield block uptime. This is great in limitless rage situations, and what's best, it allows acceptable level of tanking even when tired. We're still humans, right? I know this doesn't offer the best TPS in limited rage situations, that's when I spam it less and use more Devastate and Shield Slam (and those are just the skills, no /castsequence macros). That macro is clickable with less than 10 rage, if GCD isn't rolling, it just makes revenge since there is no rage for SB or HS. So if I'm fully awake, I can limit the effects on TPR with my awareness on my rage. If I'm not awake, I can still get by with simple buttonspam.
That kind of macro is possible since SB and HS are not on GCD, and there was such a macro in Quigon's original post.
Actually, now that I think about it, my whole setup is /castsequence macro. I push buttons 1,2 and 4 in succession, like dancing my fingers on the keyboard. 1 is bound the macro I gave, 2 is Shield Slam, 4 is Devastate. Spam the whole set, it becomes: cast revenge if GCD not rolling, cast SB if enough rage, cast HS if enough rage, cast Shield slam when GCD not rolling (that means revenge is on it's CD), cast devastate when GCD not rolling (Shield Slam and revenge on CD). Then just move little finger for shift and ctrl when it's time to apply debuffs.
Hopefully I won't be flamed by non-macro puritans who raid with default UI :<
And for reference, I *could* bind all those skills on different buttons, waste lots of space on my display and lose some awareness for "purity". But it's my choice not to, this way I can keep stuff simpler and let me concentrate on the game.