pretty much this, according to OP's logs, there ARE people beating tanks, so it is indeed possible.
the point of the dps game so you don't have that hurt ego is now to beat tank dps.
it's possible, why aren't you doing it (this isn't directed at broken rogues...i feel for you guys atm)
avoidance doesn't give vengeance, mitigation does, avoiding damage completely gives zero out of a zero possible unmitigated,
if you dodge a blow completely naked, it is still zero damage,
only mitigation does(armor, cooldowns, block--)
some of the top end guilds indeed did this for ultraxion heroic second week of DS actually, it has already been done.
that was before the new veng changes 2% regardless for mitigation only blizzard did recently fix it so overkill damage doesn't work (the last week of DS, i was getting 50k AP from impales roflroflrofl)
granted it didn't last to long, i'd pop a dps cd right after ofc! gogo beserk and enrage!
Last edited by Christan; 2012-10-07 at 01:02 AM.
Still I cry, tears like pouring rain, Innocent is my lurid pain.
Same thing happened early cata. Things will stabelize sooner or later. Calm down.
Look, if the tank putdps you right now there are two options:
1-Your gear is just not there yet, and now tanks relay on their damage aswell.
2-You have another kind of issue...
If tanks can do more damage than dps while also performing a critical role, they're the spotlights of the raid.
One could argue that they always were, but with this setup they absolutely are. Everyone else in the raid is just there to help the tank get the job done.
Why should anyone that rolls a character solely for the purpose of doing damage (specializing in damage, one might say... as if it were their role in the raid or something) be happy if, by design, an entirely different role within the raid (one that does not say "focuses on dealing damage to the enemy) is able to equal and exceed their output?
If I'm playing a dps and another dps beats me, that's life. If I'm playing a dps and a tank beats me on a gimmicky fight (such as Alysrazor), that's fine. If a tank beats me on multiple fights because of a gimmick inherent to the role (which is not the same as a gimmick fight), then that's a flaw in the system.
There's a difference between having the best damage and having decent damage. A tank doing 20% of the damage of a dps is not fun for the tank. A tank doing 100%+ of the damage of a dps is illogical and not much fun for the dps. There is room for a compromise in between those extremes.
Edit: For clarity, I don't play WoW atm. This is entirely a theoretical post, based on the assumption that tanks are able to match or exceed the dps of specialists on non-gimmick fights (meaning: fights that don't artificially inflate tank dps through buffs or debuffs that explicitly increase damage, as opposed to inflating tank damage through vengeance). If that's not the case, then this entire discussion is purely theoretical.
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you do realize that tanks will scale 0 with gear right? and tanks right now are pulling 50-60kish on fights. ALL DPS classes are simming in full normal mode gear at 75k+ in heroic gear 100k+.
http://simulationcraft.org/505/Raid_T14N.html normal mode
http://simulationcraft.org/505/Raid_T14N.html Heroic mode
so basically if dps learn to play there classes they will always out dps the tanks once they start getting gear. whereas the tanks will be better untill the dps start getting gear.
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There is a reason that most of the top 10 world guilds raid leaders are there tanks. Tanks always needed to be the one that knows everything about the encounter and is always the easiest person to be able to see the whole field. There rotations have never been that hard because there the one in the raid who usually has to watch everything So honestly its always been Tanks are the spotlight of the raid, healers are backbone of the raid, and DPS are the grunts that if they cant do there job are easily replaced. Ive raided top 30 US and watched us go through 10-15 DPS a tier like candy, our 2 tanks were the tanks in the guild since BC and 4 of the healers the same.
Last edited by Moshots; 2012-10-07 at 01:25 AM.
All these people talking about how tanks need high DPS to have fun fucking disgust me. Go play a fucking DPS spec.
By Blood and Honor We Serve!
While I can see the concerns with tank dps in raids, better gear for dps classes will fix the issue. Better gear for prot does not really mean better dps whereas the vast majority of dps classes are in shit gear and have not even begun to scale yet. With that said, I do believe that Blizz will, at some point, cap vengeance if dps in raids does not fix itself with dps getting better gear.(which I think it will)
The biggest issue right now, at least for prot pally, is very poor solo damage while questing/dailies due to basically no vengeance. Sometimes pulling 8-10 mobs at a time just isnt going to happen.
Watch tanks doing 10% more dmg than they are now in t16 and dps doing 50% more. Tank dmg isn't nearly as reliant on gear as it is for dps, better gear will not greatly improve tank damage. Being the only one doing 70k dps on the 1st boss in vault is pretty fun though . (Yes, I made the % numbers up to bring the point of gear scaling, 70k was my dps on the stone guard 2nd highest was our mage at 60k.)
You are absolutely wrong, blows that are completely avoided still provide full vengeance. The only damage that does NOT factor into vengeance now is overkill damage. You should pay more attention to the current vengeance model before trying to make statements regarding it.
Tanks have always been the "spotlight" of the raid as you put it. If you g an look at some of the most solid guilds in the world, it is always the tanks and healer base that stay constant with dps always interchanging. Not saying dps isnt important because you need solid dps to do high end raiding, but tanks and healers always make or break the raid.
And this is the problem with a lot of players playing DPS. Downing the boss doesn't matter, progressing doesn't matter, numbers that ultimately mean nothing matter. Yes it's a fun way to invoke competition among your raid, but when a Tank starts doing insane dps, it ruins it for everyone? Why? Because you can no longer swing your epeen around and spam the meters due to a mechanic within the games giving tanks rather "broken" damage? Just ignore the Tanks on the meters, and masturbate to your pretty numbers while being in second place.
You can tell WoW changed the MMO for good when players started complaining about the amount of time they sink, into a time sink.
Look, you guys are missing something crucial.
I'm a tankadin and pulled 2nd dps in our first raid (just a trial run, still had people in 450 avg ilvl gear) on stone guardians.
The mage beat me. If the mage can beat me then later the others will beat me for a simple reason.
As a Tankadin I will be stacking hit and expertise until hard caps 7.5/15% respectively and then stacking mastery. Vengeance is infinite yes, but I won't be stacking crit or *much* haste, instead I'll be stacking mastery. Mastery as a tankadin gives a bit of damage, but mainly it lowers damage taken or increases my self heals. The dps will be stacking their damage increasing stats. I will never do more damage than I am now, except that bosses will deal more damage. But in this tier... with the bosses set... No, I'm capped. I won't get any better, or if i do, it will only be a little and due to mastery. Whereas DPS will be doing much much more damage as the tier increases. So, for now, the mage is beating me. Later the other 4 dps in our 10 man will be beating me as they A: get gear and B: get used to the fights.
Tanks always do higher damage at the beginning of a raid tier than at the end in comparison the the rest of the raid.
This is not a problem which will be ongoing. Get over it for a few weeks, make sure you're nailing your rotation and get gear, you'll be back on top in no time and I'll be at the bottom. Right now it's fun, but it won't last.
The only reason Vengeance is in this game is for tanks to carry 5 man dungeons if the dps players are bad. Its also in the game to carry bad tanks who couldn't keep aggro before it existed.
Tank DPS is working as intended.
Ok, your first point: No, he said do as much damage as possible, to the correct target. He didn't say "take it easy." What he also said, that you and everyone in this thread who agrees with you doesn't seem to understand is that Your damage doesn't go down when a tank's damage goes up. If you are doing your maximum possible damage, doing everything exactly right, popping everything at the right time, etc. You are doing your job. Now, if I, as a tank, right this second, am doing more damage does that make you do less damage? No, it's not zero-sum.
Second, Tank damage will not go up at the same rate as DPS. It's a scaling issue. My dps is at it's max right now at the beginning of a tier since i'm hit capped and almost exp hard capped. The bosses this tier won't increase their damage output so my damage won't go up.
Yours will. If some dps are already beating tanks this means....gasp....more dps will beat tanks later.
Please read other's posts and think about them before posting my friend.
Edited because I realized more of your stupidity, and more of you not reading the thread.
vengeance is no longer, in any way, affected by gear. at all. I can avoid 100% of attacks or 0% of attacks and I will get the same vengeance. I can have 10m health or 10 and I will get the same vengeance from the attacks and that is 2% of physical damage. period, end of story. This is why tank damage will go up each tier and each jump into heroics but not during the tier itself. I'm doing my maximum possible damage the moment i am hit and expertise capped.
dps is a filler role, accept the reality.
ideally vengeance should scale our threat without effecting damage but i guess blizzard hasnt figured out how to do that without redesigning some or the mitigation mechanics that rely on attack power for scaling, but we can always hope.
untill then i will sit back and enjoy 175K dps on trash pulls
Victoria Aut Mors
ah the salty, bitter, butthurt tears of "me,me,me!"
its a good thing the goal of a raid encounter isn't to work as a group and defeat the boss, rather than mash buttons so you can troll post meters in /1 regardless of the outcome of the fight.
I'd LOVE to be in a guild raid with some asshat who cares more about their meters than us downing a boss.
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I will never believe that someone who doesn't actively play WoW actually continues to peruse WoW forums and passionately respond to commentary about the current state of gameplay. Also, I discount entirely any opinion of anyone related to the current state of WoW who does not actually play it.
Also, I wouldn't want you in my guild anyway... you clearly care more about your epeen than raid success.
Last edited by CapricaCenarius; 2012-10-07 at 02:52 AM.