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  Cataclysm raids requiring 2-3 tanks? -_- |
09/17/09 08:24:40 AM
Patch 3.2.0a
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Is this what's going to happen
again?
I won't bore people with a wall of text, because it needs none.
There's too few tank jobs in raids, and people enjoy tanking, we
just can't ever do it. Finding a guild as a tank is a joke. Please
address this and make Cataclysm encounters require 4 tanks.
Thanks.
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09/17/09 10:05:27 AM
Patch 3.2.0a
Ghostcrawler
<Lead Systems Designer> |
We think we can design better
encounters that generally take 1-3 tanks in 25-player content and
1-2 in 10-player content. There will probably be exceptions from
time to time, such as the occasional caster tank (Maulgar and
Razuvious perhaps).
It's very easy to get burned out on raiding, and we think having
fights that all felt the same would contribute to that. That goes
as far as comparing raid tiers. We don't want it to be "Here's the
Patchwerk fight. Here's the council fight. Oh, interesting, they
switched the lots-of-adds fight to position 3 this time." ToC is
fairly small as instances go, so you're not going to get the
diversity that you do in larger raids. Heck, the Eye of Eternity is
one boss with no trash. There is no way to make that a typical
fight with a sample size of one.
We want you to approach every fight differently, and that includes
shifting people around to different roles. Sometimes you need more
healers and sometimes you need less. Sometimes the casters have to
handle the adds and sometimes the melee have to be on interrupt
duty. Sometimes you need to split the group up. Sometimes your OTs
have to go dps since the fight only requires one tank.
It only gets to be a problem, in our minds, if the OT is such a
liability on single-tank fights that she gets swapped out for
another rogue or whatever. That has happened in the past in the
history of WoW. It doesn't seem to be happening too much these
days. All of the tanking classes can do much higher damage in a
tanking spec with dps gear than they used to be able to do, and
there is always dual-spec if that isn't enough for you. (The truth
is also that very few fights only ever require a single
tank.)
It's awesome so many players are interested in the tanking role,
but no, we're never going to promise that every encounter will
require 4 tanks.
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