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  1. #281
    as long as the boss dies.

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    Why the hell would anyone care if a tank was doing more damage? I don't get it. Is it some sort of epeen thing? I can't imagine a guild of comrades would care about this unless they were mentally broken people, or maybe had some sort of disturbing obsession with numbers rather than fun :x

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    Quote Originally Posted by Totle View Post
    Let me understand this correctly - the tanks, who traditionally do very little damage, are now hitting pretty hard and actively contributing to bringing the boss down faster... and somehow this is a bad thing?
    Well sure, it makes my shadow priest's epeen wilt.
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  4. #284
    Out of curiosity: Were people upset by tank damage back in ICC when we were fighting Festergut? Or on Alysrazor when Tanks were doing obscene numbers against the hatchlings? There are a few other old examples, but those are the first two that come to mind.

    I understand that it's not a good design to have tanks always beating DPS, but considering that the AREN'T always beating dps, I don't really see the issue. There are specific fights where tanks are doing more damage, but that's been the case for a long time.

  5. #285
    Quote Originally Posted by Braindwen View Post
    That wouldn't affect vengeance gain.

    It would affect DPS, yes, but not vengeance.
    Wearing dps gear rather than tank gear does in fact increase your vengeance gain.

  6. #286
    Quote Originally Posted by Otiswhitaker View Post
    Why the hell would anyone care if a tank was doing more damage? I don't get it. Is it some sort of epeen thing? I can't imagine a guild of comrades would care about this unless they were mentally broken people, or maybe had some sort of disturbing obsession with numbers rather than fun :x
    The point, when you're talking about logical design and not emotional reaction, is that it's not a good idea for a damage specialist to be routinely unable to do as much damage as a tank... or more generally, if character A is a specialist, character B should not be able to routinely out-perform character A in his chosen specialty unless character B is also a specialist. That's the point of specializing in the first place: you give up power and ability in other areas of performance to maximize your performance in a specific field/area.

    However, it's less of an issue with vengeance because even if a tank can theoretically out-do a dps by stacking a ton of vengeance, it still requires strong enough healing to keep them up through the damage (so really, it's a dps being out-done by a tank+healer), and there's a finite amount of damage going out. You can't start swapping out dps for more tanks and expect a net damage increase because those new tanks just won't be taking the damage needed to stack that much vengeance.

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    Quote Originally Posted by darkwarrior42 View Post
    Out of curiosity: Were people upset by tank damage back in ICC when we were fighting Festergut? Or on Alysrazor when Tanks were doing obscene numbers against the hatchlings?
    Those were artificial dps boosts, not inherent to tanks as it is now.

  8. #288
    Quote Originally Posted by howdydiddlydoo View Post
    Wearing dps gear rather than tank gear does in fact increase your vengeance gain.
    By the way vengeance works, no, it doesn't.
    It may in fact be buggy with respect to avoidance, but it's intended that avoided hits give full vengeance. Armor definitely doesn't affect it, either, and neither does block or any of that.

    The only way to get more vengeance is to stand in void zones (Stone Guard, Pheromone trails on Garalon, etc.), get more debuff stacks (e.g. elegon, Tsulong), etc. Gear should not affect it at all.
    Last edited by Braindwen; 2013-01-13 at 02:50 AM.

  9. #289
    Quote Originally Posted by Waterisbest View Post
    I want my role and respect back.
    Not sure if you realize this, but you are playing a video game. The word "respect" seems really silly in this instance

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    Quote Originally Posted by foxHeart View Post
    I'm sorry that you've experienced such braindead healers and dps.
    We have a blood DK who does more healing on trash than the healers (but not on bosses.)

    But then, when we're doing trash, I think our three healers are just twiddling thumbs and throwing the occasional Prayer of Mending/Rejuv/etc.
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  11. #291
    Quote Originally Posted by Braindwen View Post
    By the way vengeance works, no, it doesn't.
    It may in fact be buggy with respect to avoidance, but it's intended that avoided hits give full vengeance. Armor definitely doesn't affect it, either, and neither does block or any of that.
    There is no bug. You have just misinterpreted it. Vengeance stacks when you take damage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by howdydiddlydoo View Post
    There is no bug. You have just misinterpreted it. Vengeance stacks when you take damage.
    Vengeance is calculated based on the damage before anything is factored in. That includes armor and other damage reduction effects. Thus, it's entirely based on the boss's attacks and not on the tank's gear at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by howdydiddlydoo View Post
    There is no bug. You have just misinterpreted it. Vengeance stacks when you take damage.
    It's based on pre-mitigation damage.
    Mitigating more of it through avoidance, armor, blood shield, stagger, block, ShoR, defensive CDs, basically everything tanks have to reduce incoming damage does not affect vengeance at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Braindwen View Post
    It's based on pre-mitigation damage.
    Mitigating more of it through avoidance, armor, blood shield, stagger, block, ShoR, defensive CDs, basically everything tanks have to reduce incoming damage does not affect vengeance at all.
    Avoidance is not mitigation.

    Vengeance stacks when you take damage. It is working as intended that you don't get vengeance when you avoid because you didn't take any damage.

    Dps gear stacks vengeance faster because it has less avoidance.

    By definition and tooltip, totally working correctly.

  15. #295
    You do get vengeance when you avoid.
    It would only be bugged if you didn't, considering it's been stated that you're intended to get vengeance on avoids.

    Druids would probably be using SD a whole hell of a lot less often if that 50% dodge counted against our vengeance.
    Last edited by Braindwen; 2013-01-13 at 03:17 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by howdydiddlydoo View Post
    Avoidance is not mitigation.

    Vengeance stacks when you take damage. It is working as intended that you don't get vengeance when you avoid because you didn't take any damage.

    Dps gear stacks vengeance faster because it has less avoidance.

    By definition and tooltip, totally working correctly.
    The problem with that logic is that none of the tanks stack avoidance. Most of it comes from strength or agility, or from effects that you'd have as a tank regardless of gear. DPS gear tends to have more strength or agility from gems and enchants, so the extra avoidance from those stats would compensate for most of the avoidance stats on tanking gear. If there's any loss of avoidance from switching gear, it would probably not be large enough to make much difference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rivin View Post
    The problem with that logic is that none of the tanks stack avoidance. Most of it comes from strength or agility, or from effects that you'd have as a tank regardless of gear. DPS gear tends to have more strength or agility from gems and enchants, so the extra avoidance from those stats would compensate for most of the avoidance stats on tanking gear. If there's any loss of avoidance from switching gear, it would probably not be large enough to make much difference.
    Don't know how much of a difference it makes. Not really interested either Just explaining the mechanics to those who didn't quite understand it correctly.

    Tanking gear might have 5% to 10% more avoidance perhaps? That equates to 5% to 10% faster vengeance gain using dps gear.
    Last edited by howdydiddlydoo; 2013-01-13 at 03:22 AM.

  18. #298
    People complain alot about meters, but meters are not a official part of WoW, Blizzard doesnt and will NOT balance the game around what a meter says, they simply balance the dps vs other dps, and healers with healers, the issue here is well...there is no issue, no one stacks tanks and a tank still needs to do good damage to be able to function in everything else that isent a raid, or did you forget there's more to WoW than just raiding? IE: Questing, pvp, gathering(skinning, farming disenchantables) and not everyone wishes to spec dps to accomplish these aspects

    If the boss is dying, and there isent 15 tanks dpsing in a raid, there's is simply no issue, and all it is it jealousy about someone having a bigger number in a video game

  19. #299
    The only difference dps gear would make to tank DPS is the addition of haste/crit and the str/agi gems. The gear itself does not affect how vengeance is calculated.
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  20. #300
    Roll a Tank.

    Do big Numbers.

    ???

    Profit.

    Who cares if a Tank is winning on some fights, let them. Your DPS is STILL needed. So it isn't as if you are any less important than the tank in the fight anyway.

    Just seems like QQing because people have their e-peen hurt because they aren't #1

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    Quote Originally Posted by FuriousG View Post
    The only difference dps gear would make to tank DPS is the addition of haste/crit and the str/agi gems. The gear itself does not affect how vengeance is calculated.
    Well it kind of does, since Better gear = more Stam, meaning Higher Vengeance.
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