Random thought

Posted by Sanford Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 2:59 PM

All Names are changed to keep anonymity

I was recently talking with a "friend". She was doing a VH with a member in her guild who got killed randomly(ok not so random, the members a rogue) and was complaining about it. I asked the question of who was tanking,it was a warrior or dk I don't remember, who was healing, A pally.

It irritates a lot of people and me when people don't understand class mechanics. Pallys are amazing healers. Pally s don't have a lot of multi target/aoe healing. Healing the tank out duties healing the rogue. A warrior is going to hold great aggro on one target, But anything more is quite stressful. Anyone who has played the game should understand basic concepts of class dynamics before yelling and being upset and snotty. And I am certinaly not placing the blame in any corner but maybe the death your so upset about could be your fault for not focus firing, not watching aggro levels. Theres many other answers to examine before assulting someone on their play style.

To do a quick recap.

Tanking:
  1. Warrior single target and burst 2 or 3. highly based on rage.
  2. Druid best mix of both imho, lowest mitigation, but high health and armor.
  3. DK alittle low on holding aggression but 2 aoe aggro grabs and tons of tricks
  4. Pally the king of all aoe tanks right now, Great on aggression

Healing:
  1. Priest is alittle intersting. You have 2 specs, Holy is great for both, Discipline is very hard at healing groups but wonderful on one target and lots of bells and whistles.
  2. Druids are amazing aoe healers, alittle lacking on tank healing in some situations.
  3. Shamans are great all around healers on both sides of the game but people have to stay close to eachother due to chain heal.
  4. Pallys are amazing single target healing but very hurting on aoe healing.
Hope fully if you didn't know all this before you have learned something, situations where focus fire is essentional due to tanks or healers.

Thank you for reading my rant
Sanford

(ps. more posts coming on druid tanking)


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