Comments on: What A Long, Strange Pet Battle It’s Been

By: anon

anon — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 10:56:32 +0000

I have a faint idea about the tanks going all over the place with out standing at one spot , my guess is most of them are pvpers who just specced tank for quick queues and will never hit a dungeon again once they are 90. The anecdotal evidence is that I have rarely found tanks which run around like chickens with heads cut off at 90 , only in the leveling content.

By: Thunderspank

Thunderspank — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:22:07 +0000

Thanks, wasn’t aware that there was a flat out statement on this.

Ah well!

By: erroll

erroll — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:35:15 +0000

im not best tank in world. but I love instances. And i am gm of a very small family guild.
I tank for alot of young kids. my familys kids. My lacerate also helps some rogues its bleed damage.
Today i tanked for a 9 year old. who didnt do the los behind column. tho i told him too. i refused to let grp bitch at him. or name call.
It easy run to me.
if alex ever needs a tank and im not busy. ill pull it. It mostly what i do any way :)
And i kinda miss the old runs. kinda sucks i cant que them. Just to help the up and comers

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:57:42 +0000

There is a flat out statement that heirlooms will NOT be able to be transferred cross realm this expansion. Period. You want your heirlooms on another server, put them on a character and pay to move him.

By: Thunderspank

Thunderspank — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:26:49 +0000

This… this is not what I envisioned a JP sink to be. This just seems so in adequate and pointless for five levels. Now if they made heirlooms unlockable/usable x-realm, I’d be delighted to pay extra JP.

By: Thunderspank

Thunderspank — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:25:02 +0000

Its great to see Alex picking up on all the nuances of MMO play. Its fun following you two’s journey – rediscovery through his eyes. :)

BTW I intentionally ping pong all over the place if DPS keeps pulling for me. Then I try to make their lives miserable by waltzing all over the place and never letting the mobs group up. As a prot warrior, if I have solid threat, I’ll even fear bomb the mobs to make sure no cleaving occurs. ;)

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 18:22:55 +0000

MMO Champion is reporting that new Heirlooms are being released in patch 5.2 that are the same as the old ones, except they are still effective up to level 85. The cost? Full Justice Point price, PLUS trading in the old heirloom. So, if you don’t HAVE the old heirloom, you’d have to use the JP (or tokens or whatever) to buy that first.

By: Ooom

Ooom — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:50:58 +0000

Wait…. Upgraded Heirlooms? What did I miss?

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 17:41:40 +0000

I have a suspicion. It’s a dark, horrible suspicion that reveals how cynical I am.

I think bad tanks are intentionally standing in the bad to spike up their stacks of Vengeance, so they get higher DPS.

Yes, yes I do.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:44:27 +0000

I learned early on that I preferred tanks that grabbed a group, then stood still on the *far* side of the bunch and let the team blast the baddies’ backs. Turns out, that’s best for the tank, too, since melee DPS won’t trigger counters or blocks or something. It’s a simple mindset, one that I use whenever I pop Bear form and offtank. I learned that just by watching a Few Good Tanks in my very occasional dungeon run. It’s not rocket science.

…that said, it’s really not taught by the game anywhere. That’s one thing I wish WoW did better; teach in-game. It *is* kinda intuitive, if you’re working with a tank trinity paradigm, and WoW does sorta teach that, a very little bit, but I maintain that they should have some tutorial dungeons that you play through with NPCs narrating the core basics of group play and trinity roles. That a tank can be at the level cap and still be that incompetent doesn’t speak well to the game design at some level.