Quote:I followed some of the warriors-need-multi-mob-tanking-buffs threads (read: whines) on the beta forums and the supremacy of swipe for developing multi-mob threat was a common point of complaint. So chalk up a win for the Whine-iors of the beta forums, perhaps;).
Although I'm not in the beta, I imagine the developers' intent with heavy duty multi-mob pulls was to increase the opportunities for non-warrior tanks--not to mandate the use of Druid tanks, so this is probably a reasonable change for PvE balance.
I can do multi-mob tanking when I need to in 5-mans, but I'm not worried about the fact that pallies can do that better than I can. I just let them do it and I help kill stuff. In my alliance guild on Uldum that is our 5-man method. Nasty single or double mobs? My problem. NOt so nasty 5 or 6 mobs? Pally, have fun. If I have a bear around, they can help, too. I don't get all up in arms about druid or pally tanking. Good tanking still requires some skill, not just talent points. Skilled tanking = good for the raid or instance, whether it's bear/druid/pally. Of course, I'm not going to be joining any ultra min/max raiding guilds that force x talent specs anytime soon, either.
And on prot warriors getting possibly a bigger threat differential versus the fury/arms warrior. Fine. We gave up a ton of damage for our 41 points in protection. Let us use our threat. We're *no* threat to you on the damage meters. Maybe it's only fair that the threat gap between prot and fury/arms should be the same as the DPS gap. Doesn't mean you can't offtank stuff.
However, in that vein, I think the times of the arms/fury/super DPS warrior being asked to tank may not be as prevalent as they used to be anyway. Pallies and druids are great offtanks, and maintanks if geared and skilled, in some/many situations. Why lose the DPS of a Skybreak when a pally or druid who can't do near that much DPS can tank it, as long as you can spare the healing. It's really going to be situational, I think. Who's in the group on any given night may decide who offtanks, who heals and who DPSes, so I don't think any one change will be the death of something, but, I think having more viable tank options may make the super DPS warrior tank less, simply because they're better for the raid doing the DPS they've specced for, rather than the tanking they haven't.
Of course, this is all guessing. We shall see how it shakes out.
--Mav