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Druids CAN'T be main tanks! You NEED a shield
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made me lolirl! |
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as a priest (the only healer left that actually cares about mana still) your friend is correct - non-block tanks are slightly harder, and by extension generally more mana intensive to heal due to the fact that they can take higher spikes of damage than a CTC capped block tank can.
Skill also matters a lot more for bears (and even more than that for DKs); Healing a bad paladin isnt particularly hard, while healing a bad feral is an absolute nightmare. A GOOD feral, though, is very very close to the same to heal (on most encounters, and better on a few) than a block tank. Consider going over logs and finding out specifically what it is that makes him think there is a problem with you tanking. Personally, one of my biggest problems healing a feral (as far as mana goes) was unpredictable damage. Our feral tank would go for a while without taking significant damage, making my rapture (power word:shield mana regen component) not proc at all, and then take a big spike of damage that I would have to use inefficient heals for. The specific instance I'm referring to was more because he was bad than just because he was a feral, but I'm sure you get my point. |
I am Gokufour and i approve this message Anyways, I've been lvling a druid as a tank and it was WAY easier to tank things(even before I got savage defense) to do dungeons than it was doing the same with a prot warrior. Personally pallies were my favorite tanks coming from wrath but I love druid tanking so much i would even try to tank DS with one, and i haven't raided since ICC as a frost dps. |
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Fail guildies, Bear tank is the breadwinner here along with DK Tank, you should OT as bearcat for extra pew pew, if your Blood DK is good
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Dude the main tank in my guild is a bear and he solo tanks almost all the fights in DS and in some heroic DS fights so yeah.
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things and stuff about that person being dumb, bears can tank all of h ds while reforging out of avoidance stats (not reforging to dodge and reforging out of mastery) and still take no dmg.
bringing a bear is also like bringing an extra dps to the fight. |
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No sheild = not a tank. It's as simple as that.
Mastery give me a sheild so I am fine. |
Madness I haven't killed yet, but there is no doubt in my mind that blood tanks just make a joke out of impales. Big time lol! first time I downed him at all, I was on my shaman, and we had a DK tank witha warrior, the DK took on three of the corruptions alone while the warrior took on the 3rd on we killed. I swear, it was like he wasn't even being touched...Why is that anyway!? how does a dk take almost NO damage there!? |
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Edited by Mageski on 5/3/12 12:40 PM (PDT)
No sheild = not a tank. It's as simple as that. So because the word shield isn't in the term "Savage Defense" it doesn't qualify as a shield, even though it works exactly the same way? |
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Edited by Midriel on 5/3/12 5:27 PM (PDT)
Here is the deal, if your raid leader, doesn't know enough about each class to know that bears are amazing tanks, and are by no means sub par to pallies, warriors, or dk's then you really need to find a new guild/raid group.
I am not saying a raid leader should know every class inside and out, but I do believe they should have some basic ideas of what is good and what is bad for classes to do. If a raid leader is so stupid to believe that no shield means no tank, then he or she is so far gone that I can't imagine them being competent. |
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For one, your friend has a mental defect. 2. Your friend has a mental defect.
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Your guild is misinformed. That's par for the course though.
In any case, it is generally more effective for the feral to go cat during 1-tank fights. On the other hand, this is changing drastically in MoP and bears will be left with tanking and... doing pet battles with the other off-tanks. So you may wish to take a stand now. |
