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How do you like tanking in 3.1?
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anywherenotes
Hey guys, just wanted to hear your opinions on tanking in 3.1.
In my opinion it's better, I seem to be taking less spiky damage, and not having to hope I'll parry next attack feels good. Personally evasion tank was never for me.
What do you guys think?
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Aazed
I haven't been tanking much pre-3.1 since there were no double specialization, and most of the tanking I've then done was with my Blood DPS spec and tanking gear. I felt it was too powerful for a DPS spec to be able to tank this effectively!
Post-3.1, I've been able to tank more and more and I've come to enjoy the so-called 'High Mitigation' build (which is linked in my signature): the least spike damage and an overall high avoidance, but an horrendously low threat. If you're able to deal with the later, it's the funniest build in my opinion.
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Zxian
I love tanking in this patch. My main problem pre 3.1 was the fact that to get any solid aggro on trash with skittish DPS I would have to drop DnD for every pull (I like keeping it as a reserve for picking up adds on their way to the ranged/healers). Now, with the HB glyph, it makes it dead simple to get snap AoE threat.
Body pull - HB everything, BBx2. From then on, you can basically do your normal deal on the main target, popping HB whenever it's up and pest/BB to keep the diseases up on other targets for the additional AoE threat.
Before the glyph came out, doing this would require another GCD to setup the diseases, and then the only actual threat you had at this point on the other mobs (not your current target) would be the single BB you could pull off after pestilence. With HoT happy healers, this was sometimes not enough to keep everything stuck to you.
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