I read up to this post and just had to comment on some of the things attempted to be used to defend this change...
My bear tank has ~360ilvl, I'm often asked to tank runs for a decent guild on my server where people are ~375-380 geared because they know I can keep up, hold threat (~35k tps without luck of the draw) with my 353 ZG staff and not do dumbass shit (most of the time
). Threat ATM in
NOT impossible with geared dps
so long as you all know where you stand.
(anyone calling bs on the tps can go find out what a full agil geared druid tank can push when actually using more than 1 button/min, also have a less geared dk that I went with up until 4.2 before the druid so it isn't a question of "dps rotation as a tank")
Then that's a tard dps problem, it's as much the dps' responsibility to watch their threat and introducing this change will cause even less hunters/rogues to know wtf their misdirect ability is compared to now.
I just feel this is so braindead dps can go "
MOAR NUMBARS NOWS!!" with even more of both tanks and dps not having a fucking clue wtf most of their abilities do.
Managing my survival was never an issue with the DK, swapped because DK AoE threat is just plain bursty and uninvolved (30sec cd on the only actually useful ability).