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The biggest problem with the avoidance vs mitigation tanking is that any healer or tank who was ever in a high end raiding situation can attest to this:
It is not total ammount of damage that kills the MT.. its SPIKE damage. Thats the whole concept behind "Defensive" that warriors got in EQ1, and subsiquently why non-warriors were not as effective as MT's. The avoidance tank will suffer far more to spike damage and therefore will inherrantly be a less effective MT because of it.
Now...having said all of that, you also have to take into consideration that we are taking all of our preconceived ideas of how this will work into our thinking. VG is not out yet, so we are just going to have to 'wait and see'. Yes...it stinks for those of us not in the know, but I am kinda looking forward more to the idea of off tanking being more important since "boss" fights might not be about one uber mob but more of a controlled chaos of fighting lots of mobs at once. I just dont want the pendilum to swing so far the other way that we only see this kind of fight.
Apostle
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