tuskerdu wrote:
So swipe and tc are aoe tanking moves now? They'd hit every mob in a SH pull? To this I say:
BOOO.
Druid and warrior tanking should be different flavors than pally tanking. There will still be some differences, but they went way down. I want to sweat on big trash pulls. Just like a pally tank should sweat more on hard-hitting bosses than a Druid or, certainly, a warrior.
I fear tanking just got a whole less fun.
And with it, we'll encounter fewer fights where nobody wants us because "zomfg u need pally tank for dis!!!"
Swipe is still directional as far as I can tell. You can't just stand there in the middle of a cluster of mobs and load up the swipe spam.
I've tanked heroic Shattered Halls with only one real CC class. It was a pain in the ***. We're stilll limited by how much damage we can safely absorb before our healers are overwhelmed (or dead). Paladins aren't the ones sweating vs. hard hitting mobs. Their healers are the ones sweating. Now we can make our healers sweat, too.
Edit to add: If you're one of those players that will walk into a WotLK encounter featuring 6+ trash mobs and after downing them with ease thanks to unlimited target swipe and all you have to say to your party is along the lines of, "zomfg that wuz 2 ez wtf Blizz" allow me to save your party members the trouble:
/slap
Edited, Sep 30th 2008 5:25pm by AureliusSir