Hm ….. but i still got an itch to pump out on the dodge >_<: Oh well just wait for more info to maintankadin.

There were two possible solutions. The first option and the one that they took for Sunwell, was to nerf avoidance and add mechanics that made healers unable to heal their tanks for certain periods. This manifested in the sunwell radiance buff, which decreased tanks miss by 5%, and their dodge by 20%. Aside from Brutallus, none of the sunwell bosses were really a threat to instagib a tank. The fights were about control, about making sure that the raid could recover from disruptions. The solution they opted not to use was to simply crank up boss damage to the point where an unavoided hit sent healers into OH SH*T mode.

Enter WotLK. Tanks in T7 gear come walking out with 50% avoidance, easily. Not quite post BT absurdity, but enough that once again, healing these tanks is a fairly trivial experience. Patch 3.1 is rolling out, and Blizzard is once again faced with the same dilemma. This time, they reversed tack, and left avoidance alone, but jacked up boss damage. Tanks die after two hits on even the most trivial bosses in the instance, such as Ignis and XT. Tank survival becomes less about the mechanics of the fight, and more about the random number gods blessing your tank with another few seconds of life. Nowhere is this more apparent than Steelbreaker on the Iron council. A worst case scenario on steelbreaker is frightening. 3k high voltage tick, 20k melee hit, 35k fusion punch, 20k melee hit, 3k high voltage tick, 20k fusion tick. All of that can happen within 3 seconds, 101k damage, and that’s before he gets supercharges if you’re leaving him up last.

The end result of this is that all that high avoidance has done in ulduar is prompt overhealing. Spamming greater heals and holy lights is the only way to keep the tank alive. If you aren’t already casting a greater heal, before the hit lands, the tank is probably gonna die before a second heal can get to him. A tank might go 15, 20, or 30 seconds doing nothing but dodging, parrying, and being missed, but the healers can’t stop bombing heals on him during that span.

The nerf to avoidance and the nerf to mana regen, along with the encounter design of patch 3.2 is designed to make healing more forgiving, but at the same time, more skill dependent.

This also has specific implications to tanking balance. On the PTR, druids were still wickedly overpowered for single target tanking, due to their natural EH advantage, combined with solid avoidance. This change, while a slight nerf to the other tanking classes, they at least gain some avoidance back through the buff to parry. This is a straight nerf to Druids, there is no silver lining for them. This seems to be intended to return druids to the old mana sponge style of tanking that they used during the crushing blow ridden era of BC. The idea behind a druid tank back then was that they got a massive EH bonus because while Pallys and Warriors could push crushing blows off the table, Druids had to eat them. This led to druids becoming somwhat overpowered on bosses that did not crush, and this OP status persisted throughout Wrath, where EH was pretty much the only thing that mattered for fights like OS3D.

Ok got it…

So what the hell is the point of the this ?

45.25 dodge rating is 1% dodge
45.25 parry rating is 1% parry