11-16-2006, 11:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-16-2006, 11:32 PM by Pantalaimon.)
Quote:snip... the tank/heal/DPS hybrid gets just a tiny handful of tanking skills but the best raw physical survivability.
Yeah, because we all know how well that works<_<. You could say that about current WoW; they have best survivability but worst aggro control, and look how often we let them tank. As Lemekim has alluded to, the most important trait of a tank, imho, is to hold aggro. In 5-mans, that's on multiple mobs, in raids it's normally on a single mob. I'm sure nearly any healer would agree, it's much easier to heal a tank that has a little less mitigation but will glue everything to him.
After a little more beta playtime, I am actually quite concerned that warriors might become dps first, tanks second if you can't get a druid. Running AQ40 and naxx with 20-30 high sixties, warriors were really struggling to hold aggro - whereas we couldn't pull aggro off our two fuzzytanks unless we were specifically trying.