Official expansion talent previews

[Concillian]

Unless the tank is overgeared, the MT in a 40-man has near-unlimited rage to work with from being hit. If they don't, then their gear is good enough they don't really *need* the excess rage to hold aggro.

Expansion is 25 man content, not 40 man. I expect there to be less rage available than currently... more on the order of AQ20 type content, and in that content you have somewhat limited rage. Plus, even in 40 man content, the "unlimited rage" factor doesn't come in until you start hitting the Tier 2 bosses. I know in my tanking in MC I still didn't have enough rage to be mashing the HS button every swing cycle along with my cooldown skills. Until that happens and you still can't spend all your rage, you aren't hitting an unlimited rage situation. It's going to be more difficult to generate content with that kind of damage done to a tank when you're bound to have fewer healers around just from the 25 vs. 40 standpoint.

Gauging how much threat you NEED is difficult, because DPS classes will "test" their threshold on trash and scale their boss damage appropriately. Shake is an example of this... GG mentioned the hunters would scale back their damage so tehy wouldn't pull aggro... So the tank has little indication that he is not generating as much threat as another tank would. It's difficult to gauge how much extra DPS can be liberated by improving threat generation. In some fights it's zero, while in others it's significant.

It works hand in hand with things like the warlock complaints that they can't utilize their DPS because of aggro concerns. Warrior threat handling capability has been improved... so warlocks will be more able to utilize DPS. Also I see "good tanks" tougher to come by simply because of the parallel tasking you will have to do while tanking. As it is it's a cycle of shield block, heroic strike, and [insert global cooldown skill here]. The expansion will add a layer of complexity with the Shield Bash / Heroic Strike mechanic and the sunder / devastate mechanic.