Primal News Transmute [29/01/2008] (It shall be engraved upon your soul!)
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I'm surprised it took them 3+ years and a second expansion to even plan for an official threat meter. When you're dealing with fights that require precise control of threat, it just strikes me as natural to help the players achieve that control without having to resort to 3rd-party addons.
Something like this should've been put in as early as BWL for Vael, or Naxx for Patchwerk at the latest. When you're constantly introducing fights that ask you to manage threat well, such as Gruul or Void Reaver, why is the community still relying on estimates and guesswork. Very accurate estimates and guesswork with a solid basis, to be sure, but guesswork nonetheless.
Skill. Good players were adept at judging and managing their threat even without addons, bad players were not.
Although I agree thats true, threat meters enable me to do more damage than without one, by giving me an approximate value, and letting me know exactly where I am, as before, I had to hold back on dps.