Infraction for Mara: Useless Post

Kaubel · 08/15/08, 2:37 PM

Post: [Druid] Feral talents/abilities - WotLK preview / discussion
User: Mara
Infraction: Useless Post
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

These aren't the kind of forums where you can hastily post the first thing that crosses your mind.

Original Post:

The below post, while admittedly a "gross simplification" is rather worrying.

WoW Forums -> Tanking in Wrath of the Lich King

"Currently we are talking more about HOW classes tank, not WHAT they tank. Potential examples: The warrior tanks by having a shield, a lot of mitigation and avoidance. The druid tanks by having a huge health pool. The paladin tanks by using passive reactive abilities. That is a gross simplification, but perhaps you get the idea."

I don't tank with a huge health pool? Do you? I may have 1-1.5k more health, at most, fully buffed than our Warrior MT when we are both wearing stam-whore gear.

A warrior tanks with "a lot of mitigation and avoidance"? Wasn't the sunwell radiance debuff introduced largely because Druids could hit avoidance cap on bosses? And when have warriors ever hit the armor cap like Druids do?

Tanking has traditionally consisted of threat, mitigation & avoidance, where health was often considered merely a part of mitigation. Health doesn't give us more threat (unless you are counting being alive vs. being dead as more threat). Health doesn't give us more avoidance.

I like the Natural Dispersion idea in that it gives at least one idea on how a druid could tank with 'a huge health pool.' However, do we want to encourage Blizzard to take this route? Better yet a Feral on Beta who can make a persuasive post re: how tanking with health will require Blizzard to give us additional new abilities and creates an unwanted tax on healer mana, when they are already facing new issues due to the elimination of down-ranking.