Comments on: On the eve of patch 2.4 http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/ Tanking Hard since 1876! Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:18:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Throng http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/#comment-237 Throng Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:35:38 +0000 http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/#comment-237 I stand corrected! The 2.4 patch is being applied this week. I stand corrected! The 2.4 patch is being applied this week.

]]> By: Urago http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/#comment-235 Urago Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:12:26 +0000 http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/#comment-235 Spot on about dumbing down Cleave. They're doing the same thing to the Bear Tank populace on Swipe. Swipe suffers from the same lack of serious threat production as Cleave does though, so it's really only useful once you've got either a solid threat lead over your healers and you're Focus firing your DPS to kill targets one at a time. They're basically taking a marginally useful ability (at least in regards to my tanking technique) and dumbing it down for tanks who rely too heavily on it and don't know how to avoid breaking CC. Tanks who actually KNOW their craft will be changing targets and juggling high level threat abilities on them anyway, so the serious tank probably won't be affected by this too much. Regarding the 2.4 Druid Changes, I wasn't wild about the GCD change for Mangle initially, but everything else was on a 1.5 sec GCD while Mangle was on a 1 sec GCD. This is probably a change that needed to be made to balance things out a bit more. I think, in the long run, it won't be TOO detrimental to a bear's TPS, especially with the improvements to the damage component of Lacerate. Should even out in the wash. I'm averaging 800-1100 TPS through KZ right now, so we'll see if that changes at all after 2.4 goes live. Spot on about dumbing down Cleave. They’re doing the same thing to the Bear Tank populace on Swipe. Swipe suffers from the same lack of serious threat production as Cleave does though, so it’s really only useful once you’ve got either a solid threat lead over your healers and you’re Focus firing your DPS to kill targets one at a time. They’re basically taking a marginally useful ability (at least in regards to my tanking technique) and dumbing it down for tanks who rely too heavily on it and don’t know how to avoid breaking CC. Tanks who actually KNOW their craft will be changing targets and juggling high level threat abilities on them anyway, so the serious tank probably won’t be affected by this too much.

Regarding the 2.4 Druid Changes, I wasn’t wild about the GCD change for Mangle initially, but everything else was on a 1.5 sec GCD while Mangle was on a 1 sec GCD. This is probably a change that needed to be made to balance things out a bit more. I think, in the long run, it won’t be TOO detrimental to a bear’s TPS, especially with the improvements to the damage component of Lacerate. Should even out in the wash. I’m averaging 800-1100 TPS through KZ right now, so we’ll see if that changes at all after 2.4 goes live.

]]> By: Throng http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/#comment-234 Throng Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:13:44 +0000 http://www.tankhard.com/2008/03/21/on-the-eve-of-patch-24/#comment-234 "Patch 2.4 will likely go live this coming Tuesday and if not, then most assuredly next Tuesday." Really? What's your source? I hope you're right, but I wasn't expecting it for a few more weeks yet... “Patch 2.4 will likely go live this coming Tuesday and if not, then most assuredly next Tuesday.”

Really? What’s your source? I hope you’re right, but I wasn’t expecting it for a few more weeks yet…

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