World of warcraft

War Beauty wrote: That's how I know you haven't played for a while. haha :laugh:

Actually, it's Pally tanks and Prot Warrs that make healers cry now! Bears and DK's are the best tanks for the current raids. They have FAR more CD's and Dmg reduction tricks than Warrs and Pally's. However, a BAD DK tank still makes you cry. NOT as much as a stupid DK DPS. You know, the ones that pop Army of the Dead at the start of a boss fight and pull aggro off of the tank and onto the rest of the party....

I'll hand it to Blizz...Dragon Soul was a Tank and Healer and DPS check to the max. If you're gear and your skill wasn't there, until the nerfs, if you got far in that raid it's becuase you were good raiders. But now they nerfed the crap outta it so it's free for all on regular. Heroic is still a beast if you're not skilled or geared. But it's not impossible.

Actually, before I stopped playing, my 85 Pally healer(s) never had problems keeping up good tanks. A bad any kind of tank used to make me cry, before DS came out. Then dungeons just got stupid easy, and I could keep up even the bad ones. I'm pretty sure I quit before the nerfs... SWTOR came out, and I like that much better. On my server, most the major raiding guilds were almost done with heroic by the 2nd or third week. I found Normal to be relatively easy compared to Normal FL, it's a lot more forgiving. Of course, we two healed most fights on Normal.

Oh yeah, FL and the original 3 raids for Cata were fair tank game. But DS has a few fights that are tank dmg specific. ummm...for example...
(speaking PRE-nerf)

Fading Light and Hour of Twilight on the Ultraxion fight. If you're tank is a retard, he's gunna die no matter HOW good your healers are. And if one of your tanks dies, your other tank better be a bear or a DK for the dmg reductions and suvivability of those attacks to save the raid from death.

And the Madness of DW fight. The Corrupted Mutations (the big tenticle that slams the ground before the bolt)....if you're tank doesn't have a CD for Impale, he's dead. And people are sacrificing a traditional 2 tank system for a 1 tank system (bear or DK pref) to give an extra healer or DPS.


Speaking as a Holy Priest and current content raid healer, I expect my tanks to have dmg reduction and my fellow healers and dps to mostly fend for themselves. Tanks take a TON of dmg in DS, but as a healer or dps it's fairly easy to avoid most of the avoidable dmg. DS has a lot of AOE dmg granted which isn't saying that I DON'T heal them....but i mean c'mon....my cloth wearing mage can outlast some plate wearers as far as taking dmg goes becuase I use my CD's on rotation and don't stand in the fire like a noob.

ALSO, I find it hilarious that you're tired of raiding DS already because from what MMO CHAMP says once MoP is released, DS will have bosses added. It's gunna be like, 15 bosses long now, like Ulduar. You know, the 7 hour long (assuming no one wipes the whole party), epic adventure for some obscure title or mount and achievement that doesn't even happen till the last boss (freakin Yogg Saron) anyways? LOL

If that happens I would still probably do it but every time it reaches the end of an expansion, I just get tired of the nerfed content (to the point i turn it off now). 20% nerfed content on DS is pretty lame... considering how faceroll it is; I read some of your remarks about how DS is tough to an extent. I only disagree because I raided BT back in TBC and only 5% of all guilds could even down content back then. I just been leading raids so long (as my raid group have been together for awhile) I feel the content was really easy in DS. I had a better time in Firelands. For example: The fight with ultraxion. One tank stays out for hour (we have a blood dk as OT) everyone else hits button. Fading light, other tank taunts, than it targets an additional 2 players (if heroic). you hit button, go in realm, come out. All it is: a big giant gear check. I didn't like the fight because of it. I also don't raid with noobs so pugging is out of the question now.

Drusophilia-Prot Warr (human)

I love my prot war. Glad to see you roll one. Prot warriors are the ridiculously fun and they aren't faceroll like bears (swipe spam) and blood dks (deathstrike spam, and 4 set bonus on vamparic blood -_- with like a million defensive cds).

Not gunna lie, i'm "excited for MoP" BUT I played the beta a little and that new talent system is heinous. I think it's stupid how they went and changed it AGAIN. But whatever...

They like to change all aspects of the game every expansion for people don't get bored. I just think the new system is rather retarded. They essentially eliminated cookie cutter builds by not allowing you any freedom at all. The talents are predetermined (like how they gave predetermined stats to gear. they used to have manual attributes in vanilla). Now with the new talent system all you get to do is choose a new ability every 15 levels (rubbish). I started writing a theory craft for prot wars after going over the talent calculator. No new real changes in how we do things but we are going to be really OP, now that we get self heals.