Originally Posted by
Nairobi
I will say that our group (13/13) has had far more wipes due to not pushing a transition on HC council, HC lei shen, killing adds fast enough on HC Primo or HC Horri, etc etc FAR more than tank deaths. By about a margin of 50:1 if I had to quantify. And that is not an exaggeration. I can count the number of times that we had tank deaths that caused raid wipes on my hands.
Now, sure, a lot of those close-call DPS races means that the burden falls primarily on the DPS (duh), but tank (and healer) contributions are even MORE important in those cases. Think of things like HC Garajal on week 2 (lol hybrids+discs). Things like HC Garalon (soaking cleaves in dps spec/gear). Things like....EVERYTHING being easier with disc/MW combo and/or Protpal/BrM for "bonus" heals and DPS. Putting it into those perspectives (I.E. the ones that matter), there is no room for a vastly underwhelimg proc, designed solely to lessen the penatly on bad play.
Now, if your group is still working on normals or early heroics, and is not a top-tier progression guild, then sure the tank cape might be useful. But I sit next to our disc priest to raid, and she tells me when she's gotta run/be OOR and I plan accordingly. Using VOIP means that everyone can and should be aware of what's going on, rendering the cape proc all but useless except for cheesing encounters.