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[WoW] Death Knights Hoo!: Druids don't need shields to tank, and neither do we!
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But really, there are so many different ways Blizz could handle their tanking, with any number of new mechanics just for them.
And while they can work out new mechanics, that either means that the mechanic has to be based off something (perhaps block rating does something different for DK's, even if they can't block) or having more gear that's class specific, and we all know how popular class specific drops are. (oh look, more leather healing shit!)
However, if they retain the sunmote "mechanic" of making most or all class specific drops pull at least double duty, then I suppose they could just make as much of the stuff as they wanted, and allow "tanking plate" to be transmutable into anything useful for a warrior, paladin or DK.
More like "3 DKs LFM NEED TANK AND HEALER" am I right? The problem with tank shortages is not that no one rolls tanking classes, it's that no one wants to tank. Or at least less people want to tank than want to DPS or heal apparently. I sort of think it's because tanking brings a lot of responsibility, you're sort of the de facto leader of the group, it's often a tough job, etc. When MrT opened, everyone in my guild was desperate for tanks, including a lot of holy paladins and resto druids who could have easily respecced and done it themselves. Or like last night our fury warrior bitching on Vent about how people always run heroic MrT when he's not online, and he needs a trinket. And someone was like "hey I hear YOU CAN TANK, start a group sometime, we have healers always looking to go" and he was like "fuck that." Yeah, my sympathies, friend.
Or, it could be the reverse, with some debuff-based mitigation, where your damage(so then they use fury gear) increasingly debuffs the damage that the enemy does. I think we've got enough current stats to play with, even within their current purposes. I mean, druids are already so simple, hp/dodge/armor.
Edit: I feel that any possible issues that we'll run into with raids, will be more than offset by the massive gain of an entirely new class with it's own playstyle, for all of the people who will never raid a 25 man.
Verily. A few months ago, when I was in the crunch to get Honor Hold Exalted, I joined a PuG via the LFG tool with a paladin and a druid. Shortly after I joined, they announced in LFG "SH group LF2M need tank and healer".
Personally, for me it will depend on what the "backstory" for the class is. I play on an RP server for a reason, so for me it will matter how comfortable I am getting into character with the class. Since there is so little (read: none whatsoever) info on that point, I'm reserving judgement.
Now tanking is often another issue, as I find tanking as a non-prot warrior terribly frustrating (of note, my warrior is not overgeared, or even geared to the point that I can just slap on dps gear and "dps tank" things), and tanking as a non-prot paladin / feral druid to be an exercise in futility. I guess that's one thing I hope; we don't have to spec purely in the "tanking tree" in order to effectively tank as a DK. I do expect that the deeper you go into certain trees that the better a class will perform in pvp, tanking, dps, healing, etc, but I'd hate to spec as a tank and find it infringe my ability to solo heavily. Though I suppose that's really only an issue for warriors, and they've been looking at ways to fix that, as feral druids and prot paladins solo quite well in many regards.
Anyway, that all said, if need be I'll spec mine to tank and lead 3 dps noob DK's to victory along with a bored healer or healer alt.
"Our DKs are two handers!"
"Man, WoW was great until LK, now everyone's a DK."
"Male Blood Elf DKs everywhere!"
:lol:
Surprised no one else had tossed out that pun yet.
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
Yeah, maybe every now and again, but Zoro, for the record, triple wields.
Lv 90 Tauren Shaman Lv 90 Pandaren Monk
At least, until we hear otherwise.
:^:
That "someone" would most likely be your RL friend, making the whole thing pointless?
Lv 90 Tauren Shaman Lv 90 Pandaren Monk
Also, I'm another one guilty of waiting for DKs to reroll. I love the horde side of my guild, but leveling is a pain in the ass. I made a warrior to 38, and all I want to do is nuke the horde zones.
From what I understand, you get to 80, do a questline, then unlock the class for creation. So Perhaps you can only be a Human/Orc DK since its a new character slot all together.
This has to be the most pervasive piece of misinformation still circulating.
That was going to be part of the original design, however, they (Blizzard) thought about it some more and decided that having people rush a character to 80 just to unlock a DK and go level through everything all over again didn't make much sense. To the best of our knowledge, that plan has been scrapped, and they are now aiming at possibly a questline doable between 55 and 70 (thus, something just about anyone can do right now) or even just having a 55-70 character might make you eligable to make a DK.
last i heard a block with a sword was called a parry :lol:
Nah, a parry is deflecting the attack entirely.
I'm talking weapons so big you could plant the tip firmly in the ground and hide behind the flat of the blade.
Gay for you. My sweet man-child.
hunter weapon
Those are called shields. And I assure you, a shield is a weapon too.
a ranged weapon
This is EXACTLY the issue. For the past week or so I've been trying to group with my rogue and I can't tell you how many motherfucking warriors and druids are more than capable of tanking (69 druid not wanting to tank mana tombs? Give me a fucking break) but simply don't. It's extremely frustrating.
Ghalan - Tauren Druid
Also, I really hope they take a long look at how the 3 current tanking classes play, the popularity of using them as tanks (in 5 mans up to 25 mans) and make ALL 4 of them fun as hell to play as tanks.
The problem with that is that your fun can easily be ruined by aggro-happy DPS McRetardpants no matter how fun the actual mechanics of tanking are. Combine with the fact that 90% of WoW players fall into the McRetardpants category and you've got problems.
My fun as a dpser can also be ruined by a slow as molasses tank. Anyone in a group can ruin things for anyone else.
I'm curious to see how the "insta leveled to 50" impacts upswing. I'm sure we'll see a ton of DPS Death Knights but I'm wondering if the built in power leveling might cause some people who might be interested in tanking but unwilling to level to give it a try via their Death Knight.
Like rogues.
Me: Hey, do you guys use Omen or KTM or something?
Warlock: wut's omen?
Me: It's an addon that graphically displays your threat.
Warlock: wut's threat?
Me: *whimper*
Yes, that run went EXACTLY as you expect.
I hope that's true.
Hey!
I use 3 abilities, thank you very much! (actually 5, 6 if you include a timely vanish).
Which is so much less work than cursing them and spamming machinegun shadowbolts for lawl dps, right?
But that was pre-BC, so I dont know if it's any different now.
And then there's Timbal's Focusing Crystal, which shoots Shadowbolts FOR you.
I deleted all the armour and items, will the restore it? (at least the last set I had on)