The sky is falling
Posted 10-30-2009 at 04:01 AM by Shortypop
Two days ago it was the flood of pally tears that greeted me on the WoW sites I normally visit and today it is tank tears in general. While I am eternally grateful for anyone who takes the time to do the maths, time to explore PTRs and post sensible concerns and suggestions I am always dumbfounded by comments like "this is the end of warrior tanking" and "no reason to bring anything apart from a druid after this".
Despite my recent discovery of my heroic strike macro problem (I'm desperate to go home (but can't) and fix it and am currently feeling like a complete and utter idiot for not spotting it earlier) I am confident that I will not be "benched" for Icecrown. I count myself lucky that I don't play at the "bleeding edge" of WoW but then most people posting that the sky is falling don't either.
I've found the discussions on several forums really interesting, as the threads go from "oO that's a lot how will that effect us", to "stupid blizz", to "X tank is worse of than Y tank" often via some fairly creative mathematics. It's an indication of human behaviour that these conversations often start out as "that's bad for all of us" to "I'm much better off than anyone else" or "I'd hate to be XX after this change" - while I recognise that we all want to be the best tanks there is I hope that there are very few guilds who would bench a tank for an entire instance just because they theoretically suffer the most from any global change.
Personally, I plan to follow the blue posts and responses from people I can trust with interest, remain silent on forums until the details are cleared up, fix my heroic strike problem and give my guildies a couple of extra hugs (in order to apologise for my idiotness). I have no doubt that the tanks who currently tank in my guild will still be tanking in Icecrown, it will take a lot more than 20% dodge reduction to shake our determination to lead from the front.
Despite my recent discovery of my heroic strike macro problem (I'm desperate to go home (but can't) and fix it and am currently feeling like a complete and utter idiot for not spotting it earlier) I am confident that I will not be "benched" for Icecrown. I count myself lucky that I don't play at the "bleeding edge" of WoW but then most people posting that the sky is falling don't either.
I've found the discussions on several forums really interesting, as the threads go from "oO that's a lot how will that effect us", to "stupid blizz", to "X tank is worse of than Y tank" often via some fairly creative mathematics. It's an indication of human behaviour that these conversations often start out as "that's bad for all of us" to "I'm much better off than anyone else" or "I'd hate to be XX after this change" - while I recognise that we all want to be the best tanks there is I hope that there are very few guilds who would bench a tank for an entire instance just because they theoretically suffer the most from any global change.
Personally, I plan to follow the blue posts and responses from people I can trust with interest, remain silent on forums until the details are cleared up, fix my heroic strike problem and give my guildies a couple of extra hugs (in order to apologise for my idiotness). I have no doubt that the tanks who currently tank in my guild will still be tanking in Icecrown, it will take a lot more than 20% dodge reduction to shake our determination to lead from the front.
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Yeah, the whole discussion is without merit or purpose except having and announcing an opinion.
I guess the IC bosses are still being tuned so wether the sky is falling or not can only be told when it has actually hit us.
But they have been quite clumsy in announcing it without saying what philosophy they want to follow in the design of the boss encounters to actually make this a good thing.
We'd like to see the plan, dear sirs.Posted 10-30-2009 at 05:16 AM by Mačl 
- In my opinion this is the sunwell radiance QQ all over again. If this means that bosses do not work along the lines of "2 consecutive hits and you are dead" then I will be very happy, making the tank take 40k hits to make the boss hard is not fun, nor does it make the boss hard on anyone except the healers.
There is a reason IC is still in testing.Posted 10-30-2009 at 06:10 AM by Pyrea - I'm just thinking about how much better Glyph of Indominability is going to be we arn't dodging so much.
Posted 10-30-2009 at 11:12 AM by Eraser - This is the same as always Shorty. Unfortunatly. I have come back to troll people and I'm still reading essentially the same things that were on the forums from back in the day, over a year ago. It depresses me.
Forum silence is always great. People fail to realise that there is a specific role for each different type of tank and different reactions from content to each unique style of tanking (not just from different classes but different players as well, scripted as encounters may be). More than ever now, in Wrath, it comes down to player skill.
If a good tank is benched because of changes made to their class over an average or bad tank of a class that benefits from any changes made, that particular guild is going to find themselves in a world of hurt with any new content (even if it isn't bleeding edge).
This is a good post and you should spread the word as much as possible.Posted 11-01-2009 at 05:21 AM by Sanelora
