Seal of Command now "cleaves" 2 extra targets....

[shoju]

That's not your fault. Really. That's us tanks being lazy and letting 'late targets' just have aoe threat moves build on them, instead of tabbing and using some of our formidable single target moves on them. There's a tension between doing than and the primary target. Depending on who is dpsing the primary they very well may pull it off in the 4-5 GCD's it takes to move around and hit each mob in the pack. Since there is more of a stigma with losing the "skull" on threat than the "circle", we tend to focus more on it.

The other day in (H)ToC with Conc along Bladestorming I had to revisit my old multi-mob tanking habits and tab-revenge, tab-shield slam, tab-heroic strike+devastate, etc... and then we had no issues as long as he waited to do it until the 2nd-3rd rotation. So if you're dying regularly tell your tanks to stop slacking and Shield of Righteousness/Shield Slam/Mangle/Rune Strike more than just the mob that's being dps'd. Good rule there is if you have ~70% in threat of it's total life pool, you can forget about it.

And, if it happens to be as bad as you think it will be (which rarely happens, bub), well, just think of DS as a repair button.

Cheers,
~Frag:P

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not thinking it's going to be a bad thing. I'm just worried that after not having to pay attention to the DS threat, I'm going to newb it up. Even though it hasn't been that long, it's far easier to untrain than to train a behavior.

I'm am 100% in favor of this change. I can't wait to see the kind of ridiculous things I can do with it when I'm screwing around. I'm wondering things like:

1.) If DS kills the first round of 4 mobs, will the SoCom jump out to the next mobs. In a sense, Could I 1 shot 12 things in a low level situation with it?

2.) If I only have 4 targets, will the seals proc all around

1 hits 2 and 3
2 hits 3 and 4
3 hits 4 and 1
4 hits 1 and 2

In some kind of logical progression? Or would it be possible to

1 hits 2 and 3
2 hits 3 and 1
3 hits 2 and 1
4 hits 2 and 3

and end up getting Soul Crushing Seal procs that would 1 shot AoE things in the world, but Overload threat on something in a raid?

I'm really only worried about the threat problems that the 2 extra seal procs are going to give when we get into AoE situations. Other than that. I WANT MY NEW SEAL NOW:)

Who knows, maybe I will need to turn Omen back to the "You...Will...DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE" voice to get ready for it:)


EDIT:

And thanks Tori. It warms my heart to hear you say that:)