Def Spec -- Should I, Really?

[Taeme]

The debate over protection speccing boils down to how your style as a tank works. While it's nice to think we all tank the same, the truth is, players don't. You really have to show a willingness to experiment and get a grasp on how you like the specific abilities involved, as some fit your play style and some don't. I personally find myself swapping to berserk stance a lot for whirlwind and intercept, meaning I probably take more benefit from cruelty and improved intercept than a tank who prefers to use rage up on sundering multiple targets or who feels comfortable bloodraging. Not that I don't use sunder or bloodrage, just to say I lean on other abilities which you may not!

You may find you actually like protection spec and it makes it easier. You might find it doesn't. Do you actually NEED protection spec to be a good tank? No, you need talents that work with your mindset as a tank and so forth.

Yes. I'm oversensitive, my panties are in a wad and certainly am a pansy carebear. Never mind that the ability to kill someone in an online game has nothing to do with courage. It doesn't make you any better than me that you enjoy playing on the PvP server. [right][snapback]69527[/snapback][/right]

You know, to be really honest here, you ARE oversensitive. You guys completely derailed the topic and got really into some heated debate over a term that, more or less, means exactly what it's supposed to mean and you in fact are. Never mind any sort of debate between pvp and pve, the reactions are telling.

Why bother being insulted in the first place? You turn a useful thread into something ugly over a word that for all intents and purposes is just goofy nerd slang. How revolting.