10-23-2007, 05:33 PM
Quote:The issue isn't Nightbane, who is pretty trivial right now. I'm not sure about the guy in Hyjal, but at somepoint they will have Deathwing or another end-game dragon with standard dragon abilities. Not only are extra crushes a big deal for that, but if the dragon wiggles and flames the raid, many will die.
You will still need to keep the tank fear free, or you are rolling the dice. Between stance dances and all priests having FW, there is no reason not to.
Where Archimonde in Hyjal is concerned, getting feared post patch will be just as lethal as being feared pre patch. Usually, the tank on Archimonde is standing near a number of Doomfire streams, which deal 2400 damage per second to anyone standing in them and also inflict a DoT that ticks for 4500 fire damage at the start. These streams start outside melee range and generally head outward, but also loop back so that there's generally a lot of fire near Archimonde's base. A feared tank runs into one of those, and the fire damage on top of Archimonde's 9-10k hits means game over.