Perhaps this makes druids viable tanks again?

It’s hard enough with some part timers getting a decent Karazhan group started and carrying on through the week let alone with the Druids now not really wanting to play much either. Apathy for TBC raiding has reached it’s peak, where as in Naxx/Bwl days I’d have 10 or 12 people left over wanting to get in the raid and spamming every 5 mins if there was a spot.

So much for making raiding more guild friendly, as far as I can see it’s pretty much made people not really care about it.

Yesterday, I would have guessed ‘no’. Tonight, should be a different ratio. Our guild bears are being demoted to offtanks and the prot warriors back to Main Tank, that’s Mr. (and Ms.) Main Tank to the rest of us.

Which I think might have been a driving force behind the Druid nerfing. Druids will most likely still be fine tanks in the 5mans (god I hope so..hated waiting 40+mins for a warrior to join a 5man run).

I am curious how my guild is going to handle it, absolutely none of our warriors have even mentioned returning to Prot spec, hell not even sure the lazy bastards have read the patch notes.

It works so well when a single holy paladin constitute almost as much healing on the healing meters as two holy/disc priests combined. That’s right, all three healers similarly geared, all raid specced and buffed, and yet the holy paladin has far more longetivity and mana efficiency to outlast both priests. I had a dream about this last month and forgot about it until I started reading over my gripes before this POM nerf even appeared on the horizon. Now I’m just bitter as all hell.

When I can find a game that doesn’t inspire competition among support classes to see who supports better (e.g. priest racial spells like fear ward), constantly nerfs support spells and makes some classes clearly superior support classes in all aspects of the game (for instances, world pvp, raiding, arenas — paladin is clearly the #1 support class)… I’m going there and I’m never looking back at this POS called WOW.

Hah, well it does work rather well for both classes 😛

Although with all the druids going Bear, and alot of the paladins not specced for healing I still much preferred a Healing specced priest.

You’re example of 2.0.02 doesn’t take into account 2.10.01 which would be the first patch of the 10th minor release of the second major release … and what if, God forbid, you had more than 99 patches to a single minor release

😯

You just blew my mind.

Staark:

For groups to work 1 in every 5 characters needs to be a tank. Are even 1 in 5 warriors protection specced?

Yesterday, I would have guessed “no”. Tonight, should be a different ratio. Our guild bears are being demoted to offtanks and the prot warriors back to Main Tank, that’s Mr. (and Ms.) Main Tank to the rest of us.

I like the smaller raid parties ALOT, but it’s a juggle to get a suitable mix when there’s only 10 or 25 slots to fill. Not inviting rogues has worked well for us, however. (I kid!)

Well alot of priests specced to DPS when it became apparent that Druids and Paladins and sometimes Shamans could in most instances replace them as healers, sort of left them without a job really. So they went off drank a helluva alot came back and said “Screw it..Imma DPS Class now biiiiiatches”

At Least thats how I think it went 😛

Fixed that for ya.

And I suppose there’s a problem with leading zeroes, which makes 2.0. 01, 2.0.02, etc. impossible? (That’s usually what ‘they’ say when I give my math speech … right before I give up and walk away.)

The problem with leading zeroes is that you simply can’t predict if you’ll need them or not, or how many.

You’re example of 2.0.02 doesn’t take into account 2.10.01 which would be the first patch of the 10th minor release of the second major release… and what if, God forbid, you had more than 99 patches to a single minor release… leading zeroes just cause more trouble than they are worth. 🙂

This Guy: seriously what is with the DPS warrior. You don’t see mages spec to tank.

Well alot of warriors specced to DPS when it became apparent that Druids could in most instances replace them as tanks, sort of left them without a job really. So they went off drank a helluva alot came back and said "Screw it..Imma DPS Class now biiiiiatches"

At Least thats how I think it went :P

Its the sound of millions of mages removing Ice Lance from their hotkeys. ”

Now the mages know how the priests felt when news came that POM was going to be nerfed. Not that I’m thinking “serves you right for laughing at me about my nerf.” If anything, it’s just more depressing.

As the priests have pointed out, BC came out dangling these promising carrots to upgrade all classes, and a few patches later Blizzard is undoing them all and taking away the carrots — but only from some classes. Other classes get to keep theirs.

But how long until they start taking them all away one by one?