01-31-2007, 05:26 AM
Quote:I imagine that when grinding, or even in a 5-man, it could be easy to get way ahead of a tank relatively early in a fight, with a few big crits. In that case, a 50% threat reduction might not do much.
But I agree that in raiding, the ability would be much better and it would be very hard to be at a point where it would not help. After 30 seconds of a boss fight, the tank and DPS all have tens of thousands of points of threat. After that, to get 70% more threat than the tank would require crits of extraordinary magnitude!:)
However, a warlock getting 23K of damage in two back-to-back crits on a shadow-vulnerable wyrmguard will rip it right off the tank, until the warlock gets squashed, then the mob goes right back to the tank:D
--Mav