Comments on: The New Death Knight Tanking:

By: kidichka

kidichka — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:39:36 +0000

After the patch and the initial “screw this”, on my pally tank, followed by several wipes in heroics, I started talking to guildies who went through the same thing, and I found some peace. Thanks to Ven’s Pally workshop and Ask’s support Rebuilding the talent tree a few times, reforging and regemming, to get to the ultimate “blockage” or combined avoidance really helped with the much needed New tanking spec and removing the squishy factor to prevent oneshotted tank death. After doing that we dove right into the ICC and moved at a very fast pace all the way to Sindy, and one shotted her with no casualties on our side! Woot! The new Sick DPS took care of whatever issues we used to have with Sindy or Professor, even tank swap on Sindy was like, ah, whatever, let’s do it anyway. If all things are bad, I am thankful for the New SICK dps, at least for now. We have not changed anything as far as roles in tanking, having the same Pally/DK combo tanks, but here I think the new Patch worked favorably for us, since we had slightly reversed roles than in your group. We also have not changed the pulling of groups. The team was warned however, that if they see a mob going for you, kill it, run to tank, or die, those are your only choices. We prefer to save the healers! The threat was most of the times below our ranged Dps on single targets, but somehow it was not an issue, as long as range keep their distance.

And I somewhat like the new warlock, hence I got a new demon, and a free bag space! Woot, but no increase of DPS at least not as Demonology lock. Sigh, but I love them too much to switch to destro.

The disconnecting issues or lag issues are still a problem for me, I was not able to do the headless horseman on my machine yet.
Every time I try to queue I have to force quit the game, and all my setting are set to what was suggested by guildies. So, if you have found a cure for this, please share!

By: ladyerinia

ladyerinia — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:32:54 +0000

I’ve been having a lot of issues with threat lately as an Unholy DK. For some reason, I’m building tons of threat and the tanks are having to fight me for it…and I was even holding off on my dps for a good 5 seconds. Twiddling thumbs ftw! (Also, having a pocket healer really helps keep me alive).

I do know that the tanks in my guild have been whining about a lack of AoE threat. Almost considering becoming a tank to help them out with that.

Hmm…at least after much wrangling with my stats, I’m back to being top melee dps (and like #3 overall)…as I should be.

By: Jindrax

Jindrax — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:11:35 +0000

I liked the changes. Hunter: having a load of haste procs associated to a 1 second GCD makes rotations hard to and challenging to do. I am under the GCD when I have all of my trinkets and procs up, will probably hit under 0.8 second Steady Shot cast with Heroism. Priest: Shadowy Apparitions are AWESOME LOADS OF FUN. Chakra is also SUPER FUN, thanks to Revelations and State of Mind. Can’t even wait for Evangelism, let the smiting begin!

The time for alt leveling is NOW. Before they revamp leveling and tune the difficulty to our current abilities and talents. I went from 18 to 30 in two days with a warlock, using RFD and quests. Soloing as a warlock used to be easy. Now, it is super easy. Leveling as a paladin is almost as easy. You don’t get too much to heal yourself because you’re busy stocking holy power and oneshotting monsters with Templar’s Veredict. I still need to transfer heirlooms to my baby boomkin and to a rogue who still needs a name. So much to do, so little time I have, I almost feel overwhelmed. Oh, and I’m leveling a DK, but right now he’s benched because the heirlooms are on the pally.

By: Saga

Saga — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:43:14 +0000

I have to admit I feel pretty lost on both of my 80 tanks (warrior, my main and paladin, an alt). Threat just isn’t what it used to be and I find the rotation/pace have changed quite a bit. I’m sure I’ll get used to it though, but it’s obviously not going to happen overnight.

While re-learning my classes is frustrating I have to say that the bug that crashes my game anytime I touch a cogwheel (like the pumpkin for the Headless Horseman or flags in PvP, doors etc.) THAT I find extremely frustrating and annoying.

By: Endyme

Endyme — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:13:14 +0000

Hmm, maybe I should work on my druid and new toon some if it’s easier. I tried to work on my wee lock the other day but was having baaaaaaaaad lag problems so bad I couldn’t really play. I think I’ve managed to nip that in the bud, though.

It’s sure interesting to hear people’s reactions to the Grand Patch, for sure. I’m just cautious. I’m trying not to over or under-react, but I can’t help being stressed by the lag/getting booted from the game. As far as the changes to my toons and their specs, it’s hard to judge when things have changed so much. In the case of my DK’s frost dual wield spec, it’s a clear “Woah, awesome!” For Endyme, it’s harder because she’s my main and I’ve been doing things a certain way for years now, and that’s just been changed massively. Ultimately I may end up loving it more than before, and I can start to see that I might, but right now it’s hard because I feel like such a noob again.

By: taintedsouls

taintedsouls — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:06:27 +0000

Yes, I’ve started some lowbies on a new server and my mage easily kills things before they get even halfway to me (before it wasn’t unusual to take a few melee swings to the face while finishing it off). My disc priest just bubbles every now and then, I almost never have to cast a heal unless some dps is doing something stupid. It’s kind of sad/counter-intuitive that as a healer I cast smite at least twice for every heal (and that’s counting a shield as a heal).