Ok, I,ve checked out this forum and apparently the verdict is that dk tanking will be done in a high parry or avoidance fashion. So pardon me but you are very uncreative people. (if that sentence hurt your feelings don't QQ to me about it)
Now I don't know much about the four healing classes in place but I do know druids HoT, shaman have big heals but aren't mana efficient, paladins have small heals that are, and preists do a little of each. So they all cover different situations.
What I know about the tanking classes is that Warriors have the best single target threat, druids do great against melee mobs due to uber high migitation, and paladin's can take many mobs at once. So to say how a dk will be able to tank is irellavant, thats blizzards job to figure out.
What I think tanking a dk will be like from a speculative stand point? Now that is the real question. If you switched dk from the previous question into druid the answer would be by turning into bear. I personally think a dk tank will tank by sucking life from mobs with auras and spells renplenishing a fraction to his party.(so like a shadow priest) But being a tank the damage would be small compared to a shadow priest. Maybe it will be high but a good majority of dk tanking abilities require health to use? Maybe he won't heal at all, but I strongly stand behind a leech-tank for the fourth style of play.
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Kerpop wrote:
So to say how a dk will be able to tank is irellavant, thats blizzards job to figure out.
So... how a Death Knight will be able to tank is irrelevant to the question on how a Death Knight will be able to tank?
How can you be so sure that the way that a class can tank is determined after the situations a tank is ideal in? Could it not be that first, the unique idea of how to tank is thought up, and then it is decided in which situations that would be ideal for?
Also, your examples outlined exactly what you weren't talking about. Shamans are ideal at raid-healing because of their multi-target group-crossing Chain Heal. Paladins are good at main-tank healing because they have efficient single-target heals. Before a because, I said the situation--after the because, I said why.
Perhaps the Death Knight generates a high amount of threat because of a higher damage output, while dealing with multiple mobs in a sort of off-tank fashion by summoning undead tank-type mobs temporarily, and mitigates damage by sharing the damage with accordingly-buffed party members.
Maybe he won't mitigate damage at all, but I strong stand behind a mob-summon-tank for the fourth style of play.
I strongly stand behind politeness when joining a new forum, but thats just me.
There is a problem with the 'leech tank' idea I am afraid; leeching generally relates damage caused to damage healed. Since in tanking situations a tank can expect to lose (and regain) his entire health bar in under 10 seconds (against even minor bosses), to be significant the 'leech' ability would have to be extremely powerful. This would be overpowered for PvP, so it aint happening.
There is a problem with the 'leech tank' idea I am afraid; leeching generally relates damage caused to damage healed. Since in tanking situations a tank can expect to lose (and regain) his entire health bar in under 10 seconds (against even minor bosses), to be significant the 'leech' ability would have to be extremely powerful. This would be overpowered for PvP, so it aint happening.
Kerpop wrote:
shaman have big heals but aren't mana efficient
Shamans don't have massive heals. We have chain heal, which is a very mana efficient heal and is the best multi-target raid heal in the game.
edit : Other than chain heal our heals are the smallest.
Edited, Apr 18th 2008 9:39am by Draeneipally
I plan to tank by donning a pink tutu, hopping up and down, and screaming "HIT ME HIT ME HIT ME!!!!!"
I call it threat generation.
I call it threat generation.
I know I'd try to kill you.
Ialaman wrote:
I plan to tank by donning a pink tutu, hopping up and down, and screaming "HIT ME HIT ME HIT ME!!!!!"
I call it threat generation.
I call it threat generation.
What players don't see their warriors actually do when they hit "Taunt"...
I used to just take my pants off when I was having threat problems. Made them hate me more...
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Posted: Apr 22 2008 at 8:20 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) If a tank is having threat gain problems in a group I typically tell them to give the mobs some cheesy mother jokes.
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