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Kaubel · 02/20/09, 11:34 AM

Post: Imbalance in Tanking Classes (AKA Avoidance, HOOOO)
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Originally Posted by Psy

This. And it would have worked, if not for those meddling kids!

I mean, those talents that ignore diminishing returns.

I don't like the idea of making Blade Barrier a clicky ability. DKs have a lot of clickies as is. I feel like if the avoidance runeforges were removed or placed on DR, and Blade Barrier had its Blood Rune requirement removed and was just a flat 5% parry, it'd be more balanced. It'd be a straight nerf, it'd be boring and normal, but it'd be balanced. Right now, it isn't.

I understand the concept. And we are powerful characters but lets not forget that pallies, warriors, and druids get special things too and we need that extra avoidence from our talents to compete with the rest of the tanks .

Warriors and pallies both get shields and actual tanking weapons. So a geared tank has 60%+ avoidence just from dodge parry and block not including miss. Druids don't really have to worry about def and only have to worry about one avoidence tree and have a lot more HP then all the other classes.

Most DK's dont have the ability to use Swordshattering enchant because of the low def on higher level items. So.....

It is easy to hit 540 with 213 gear if you use the Gargoyle rune but you would either have to use [Repelling Charge] or [Seal of the Pantheon] to stay at 540 and use the Swordshattering rune. (excluding the def you can from the icy touch def sigil or roll without one of the DEF trinkets (listed above) and hope the Icy Touch/Def Sigil brings you to 540 and you don't have any down time) Or option C stack def gems and nerf your hp and avoidence.

If you do use one of the DEF trinkets above you then you now lack 1 trinket slot. For, atleast myself, i like having the ability to switch out trinkets. I can stack stm with Eseence and Monarch Crab or i can stack avoidence with Rune of repulsion and Valor or War dodge trinket.

To sum it all up and the point im trying to make is that with warriors pallies and druids ability to tank is very different from ours. I guess we should say we are in a class of our own when it comes to tanking and because of that the WOW gods don't seem to subject us to the same laws as the other tanks. (Another good point to back-up that we are in a class of our own is that we are the only tanking class that doesn't need to be hit to generate or version of "Rage")

When it comes to physical Dmg, imo, all the other classes have a step up on us. When it comes to magic dmg tanking. Then id say there is a unbalance