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Old 01-24-2007, 02:11 AM   #4 (permalink)
XeroKill
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I have to admit that I hope we see a good balance between the tanks in Vanguard. The one thing I hated about the Warrior in WOW is that there was NO other tanking class to even compete with AND they had absolutely amazing DPS is specced for it. I had a buddy that would constantly beat me in DPS during MC and BWL raids. I was a MM Hunter pre-patch and Survival Hunter post-patch with over 500 AGI unbuffed. I would crank out some seriously devastating DPS on raids and usually was in the top 5 on Damage Meters.

Now I had full Giantstalker's and he had full MC gear as well (I forget the warrior names, I want to say it was Might) I also had Rhok and a Core Hound Tooth and Brutality Blade. Needless to say I was loaded for bear, but this cat could come along and smoke me in pure DPS as a warrior and then turn around and tank Ragnaros. Now he was fury specced, and he wasn't the best at tanking compared to other specs, but he COULD pull it off, and no other class can say that, period. I used every trick in the book to try and cap his DPS and we would constantly compete with each other on every raid... it had even become a vendetta at one point. The fact that a warrior COULD reach that kind of DPS while maintaining the slot of supreme tank was what annoyed me to death. To me, it should be one or the other.

That long little story leads me to my point for Vanguard, and that is that I sincerely hope that if Warriors are the most damage dealing of the Heavies, then I hope they don't also dominate the tanking side of the spectrum as well.
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