Originally Posted by Webbers
Why did we do that??? TPS. As DPS there isn’t much close to and Arcane mages Damage Per Second – Threat per Second Ratio. I haven’t seen the TPS argument anywhere. To me it is one of the great strengths of an arcane mage. The fact is threat limits total damage output, Period.
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If your mages are limited by the TPS of your tanks, it's not the fault of your mages, it's a problem with your tanks. Between misdirect and the changes to warriors, I only pull aggro my main tank if I blow all my cooldowns within the first 5 seconds. Low threat is a bonus for arcane spec, not a selling point. Yes, threat limits total DPS output,
but not just of your mages. Having your rogues/hunters/shadowpriests/mages/warlocks take the spec which has a bigger thread reduction talent is approaching the problem from the wrong angle.
Back in the days of AQ40 my guild had a tank who was nicknamed 'Rogue Killer' because the rogues would outaggro him without even pushing hard. The rogues didn't go splat with our other tanks, just this one. Once that warrior finally got a Thunderfury, said rogues no longer died when he was tanking. Which begs the question of why, because nothing had changed with the exception of Thunderfury. The tank just had threat production that was that terrible, and only Thunderfury's proc allowed him to cover up his horrible TPS enough to hold aggro.