Comments on: Major Tanking Changes Coming

By: Rhaps

Rhaps — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 04:02:03 +0000

ok i play a prot warrior who is MT raids …and i have been looking into making a DK tank but im not sure how its looking…i dont understand most of their talents and im trying to figure out if they will be more similar to pally tanks with heavy aoe and not many threat based attacks or like warriors with lots of threat attacks like devestate, revenge and so on..?

By: AD

AD — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:03:05 +0000

Now if Blizzard get rid of frost immunity for mobs/raid bosses things would looking good for death knight tanking.

By: jfijolek

jfijolek — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:01:52 +0000

ive been looking around on the wow forums and have seen several people say they have tanked 10 man naxx on seperate occasions in all three different specs. Frost being the best for mitigation, unholy being decent, and blood being not so good but doable. Anyone care to comment on this? It would be nice to know i could spec unholy and still tank in 5 mans and possibly in a 10 man.

By: Bigstackstwo

Bigstackstwo — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:09:58 +0000

Haze, Death Knights weren’t just made for the storyline and fun. It was also made because their is a bit of a tank shortage in TBC. They know that there will be quite a lot of Death Knights being made, and think that this will probably raise the amount of Tanks. Also, Feral Druids CAN MT.

By: Vintheri

Vintheri — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:12:57 +0000

Sword blocks are not going to happen. So the whole “mitigation beyond armor” is a very moot point for us.

Remember that DK, War, Pala armor values are very close together. As long as stamina values are also close together you’ll see the
same reliability in tanking bosses from an effective health stand point between all three.

DK’s will pull ahead in the taking less damage for the encounter as a whole. If you are a skilled tank that’s smart enough to save some runic power for reactive abilities for when you take an hp float… tank viability is a non-issue. Fact as an MT I would prefer more avoidance or avoidance on demand (hellooooo pocket watch) to random reductions in the incoming values (hellooo block %.)

By: unknown

unknown — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:23:59 +0000

i like those buffs from a pvp point of view more than from a pve tank point of view lol….

and they did it again! they said that they know that avoidance isnt as good as mitigation as a tank and DKs still have ZERO mitigation beyong armor value and they AGAIN only buff fucking avoidance -.-.

By: NexmilitisNexmilitis

NexmilitisNexmilitis — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:51:18 +0000

Haze your a fool, Bear tanks are awesome in end game. My guild has a warrior and a bear MTing Brutallus and the bear has far fewer issues because of the huge armour and Health pool.

DK’s will be able to MT in Wrath – personally i wish they had come out in TBC as I think there are a few encounters where a DK tank would really shine.

By: Ashern

Ashern — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:10:26 +0000

Haze,

You really need to work on your english brother. And in regards to this:

“DK is design to be good OT like bear was.”

Your totally wrong. It has already been stated several times that the developers vision of tanking in Wotlk is for all 4 tanking classes to be able to main tank equally well in their own way. If there is a problem with one class in regards to this vision they will fix it. It might take a few tries I am sure but as you can see they will continue to work on these issues through patches until all the tanking classes are in line. Besides it is not like we are going to be tanking level 80 raid dungeons the first week of release anyway and I believe the developers are aware of this too.

By: Haze

Haze — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:03:17 +0000

DK is design to be good OT like bear was. Couple of month of whine from Druid community Druid can might become MT but never good as Warrior or Paladin. If you remember early stage of TBC raiding (When Karazhan was top raid) druid started to look like a great MT but in fact after plate scaling stated to take effect and mitigation taking its nature purpose, druid become nothing more then great OT. Therefor DK is and always will be OT. When he is not taking he is DPS-ing good I might add. So to pray the day DK will more the OT is silly. I do not know whats wrong with that fact.

By: Sithril

Sithril — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:46:15 +0000

Like the changes . Atleast in theory thes seem more than promissing :) . Anyone from the beta – how is the DK’s damage on raids comming up ? From the numbers I can assume than it’s just not pausible that a DK would do competative damage . Anyone ?