WoW Stratics IRC Chat

[TheDragoon]

Sadly this is true. Spellreflect in its current incarnation is barely situational.

Yeah, it's clearly a niche skill. I brought it, mana burn and silence up because, from what I read, there are quite a few situations in Tempest Keep where the mobs use either mana burn, silence or a really big magic attack that needs to be reflected (or absorbed by a Druid's superior life pool). I think it's really sad that there are encounters where the game basically says "Paladins need not apply." At any rate, they are no more niche, generally, than those encounters where a paladin might tank better than a warrior... the difference is that warriors can still do pretty well in those situations where they aren't *quite* as good and paladins basically sit on the sideline. :(

At any rate, I think crushing blows are obviously an out-dated mechanic that doesn't really add any fun to the game. People just use their knowledge of combat mechanics to try and not take them. Since only two classes (Warrior and Paladin) can negate them and only one of them can do it easily (Warriors) it seems a really stupid artificial block against the tanking ability of the other classes.

I'd really like to see tanking become more of an open activity like healing. All have distinctly different flavors yet they can all get the job done fairly equally. This is in a stark contrast to tanking which has an artificial block to ensure that Warriors are top of the heap in basically every situation. They should either remove crushing blows, given paladins and druids a better ability to handle them, or put it on a different combat table so that you can't abuse blocking to mitigate them.