Coping with loss (of threat)

You know, this really isn’t that big of a deal. It’s only ~5% of our threat lost, which shouldn’t be more than 400-500 tps. Yeah, we’ll be fine, everything will be hunky dory.

What really bothers me about this though is, was it really that big of a deal that pallies were the best tanks for threat. I mean, really?! Did it makes that much of a difference that we could out-threat any other tank and give a good dps ceiling to the pew pewers?!

If only we fought this change harder in the tanking forums. If only we defended high threat as being our “flavor”. This never would have happened.

Oh, what’s the use? Now I’m going to have dps pulling off me left and right. The DK tank was already out-threating me on a few encounters last night. It’s only going to get worse.

… Eh, screw it. I’ll get hit capped and switch 2/2 Divine Guardian for 2/5 Reckoning. We’ll be fine.

8 Comments to “Coping with loss (of threat)”

  1. tankadin 23 September 2009 at 9:43 am #

    We just don’t have the lobbying power that DK tears produce. I dropped Divine Guardian a while ago in case this happened.

    I didn’t notice any threat issues in 25 VoA or Ulduar though. My DPS seemed a little higher.

  2. Demogar 23 September 2009 at 12:45 pm #

    Do I have to be the one to say, YES it does matter :)

    Unless they wanted ALL tanks to have mega mega threat then you couldn’t keep it forever.

    Threat is a balancing factor.

  3. Rhidach
    @Rhidach
     23 September 2009 at 12:57 pm #

    Demo, I’m hurt that you of all people didn’t get the biting satire lurking in hiding behind this post.

  4. Demogar 23 September 2009 at 1:03 pm #

    I totally did, but I was waiting for you to say something in the post… :P

    Oops!

  5. Fawatam 24 September 2009 at 8:09 am #

    With the bug fix to Seal of Corruption, I’ve actually noticed my tps increasing. I gotta say it is no where nearly as bad as I expected.

  6. Yoggie 24 September 2009 at 1:26 pm #

    I see that you did change your spec to 2 points in reckoning. How is that going so far?

    • Rhidach
      @Rhidach
       24 September 2009 at 1:33 pm #

      It’s nice so far. It’s worth about 50 tps, so that’ll offset the 500 tps I took from the nerf. It’s doing me more good than Divine Guardian did, at the moment.

      Plus, it’s a fun proc.

  7. Ohmymoogle 25 September 2009 at 5:15 am #

    Ok so far i am surviving the threat nerf.

    I did however notice threat especially on the get go (especially when dps don’t bother giving us 5 seconds to establish threat) seems to be suckier then usual.

    Other then that, i just spam my threat abilities, and after a bit i still have a 10-20% higher threat on Omen. It’s cutting it real close whether i dare use Salvation on myself to use my extra mitigation …. that is how the threat nerf is affecting me so far. Honestly, i can survive this, but yes it was a nerf i felt ….

    My warrior friend reported to me that his shield thingy has more threat now ..hm…. a bone for the warrior, and a nether stick beating for the poor Pally >:{