Discussion: Feral Tank Alternatives

#0 - Nov. 29, 2008, 3:11 p.m.

We've been tossing around the idea of Strength to Parry for druids on the forums (please refrain yourself from posting 'but GC said!', I really don't care, consider this all theoretical), and I really don't see much of a drawback on it.

Giving us Parry in any form would mean Defense Rating and Parry on items is more appealing.

Giving us Strength to Parry would mean Strength on items is more appealing.

Having an additional stat to build with would also have the benefit of allowing us to scale better.

All we would need is to balance Parry out with Dodge to be marginally the same. We have a pretty solid amount of dodge stuffed into our talent tree, I would suggest starting there.

Ghostcrawler

#18 - Nov. 29, 2008, 9:35 p.m.

These are all interesting ideas. We're probably less excited to make parry into a useful stat for druids just because one of the interesting things about druid tanks is that they don't care about parry. But that isn't to say we wouldn't do it. Healability, damage reduction or some other ideas nobody has come up with yet are all possible too. This one is going to take some discussion to figure out though. More input is certainly welcomed.