true true, I always REALLY enjoyed threat management as a tank. During TBC I played a Drood, and it was always quite the Epeen boost to have 4/5 mobs all glued to me, considering the only AoE threat tool we have was swipe hitting three targets
. Looking at Swtor, we're seeing the 'Tank Stance' increasing Threat Gen by 50%, and alot of high damage abilities, so I'm guessing/hoping that Threat management will be a pretty big part of tanking, fingers crossed
and Boonie, Assassins are NOT Avoidance tanks
, they have pretty much the same armor as the heavy tanks(IIRC it's about 5% either way). Also looking at the amount of self healing they get (did you see how much Dark Charge was proccing on the EV walkthrough
) I'm guessing they wont be anywhere NEAR as hard to heal as a Death Knight (dont forget they also have block
, and if im not mistaken they have the highest block chance of all three tanks). So far from what I've seen of all the tanks, they seem pretty balanced in terms of survivability, and TTL. Although I think Assassin's may take a bit more work to keep up, but that's probably just me being pessimist, as I plan to main on come launch :P (FIVE WEEKS*ish* BABY YYEEAAHH!)