12-09-2008, 05:11 PM
I don't think anything will ever really solve the tank/healer shortage. Putting together 2 decent sets of gear is pretty time consuming, so most people are only going to focus on 1. If they focus on tanking gear, and there is a glut of tanks, they are just as screwed as if they were dps and there are no tanks. Tanking/healing is also much more gear/skill sensitive that dps. It doesn't take more than a couple pulls to figure out how good a tank is, as long as dps doesn't do something horrible you can't tell how bad they are without damage meters. And even that isn't a good measure if you don't know what their spec is capable of.
Blind pulling bosses (if the whole group is on the same page) is a blast. I haven't done it much in raids, but in 5-mans it can make things a lot more interesting. It also really quickly shows who really understands the game. (don't stand in AoE, clear debuffs from the group, etc) I would like the opportunity to do more of it, but at the only real timeframe to do it is right after new content comes out, and before the strats are published on every site in the world. WTB 3.1
Blind pulling bosses (if the whole group is on the same page) is a blast. I haven't done it much in raids, but in 5-mans it can make things a lot more interesting. It also really quickly shows who really understands the game. (don't stand in AoE, clear debuffs from the group, etc) I would like the opportunity to do more of it, but at the only real timeframe to do it is right after new content comes out, and before the strats are published on every site in the world. WTB 3.1
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