Every week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Let’s show the other classes how a hero class gets things done.

So by now, I’m sure everyone is aware of the huge tanking changes recently announced by Lead Systems Designer Greg «Ghostcrawler» Street. Of course, there are the immediate threat increases, but the really interesting part regards their plans for patch 4.3. They’re planning to put all four tanks on active mitigation models, similar to what death knights have currently with Death Strike, which is primarily the focus of today’s column.

There’s been an uproar from many corners with this announcement, with many tanks declaring that if they wanted to tank like a death knight, they would have rolled one. Funnily enough, many death knights who rolled the class to tank back when they could do it as frost or unholy, or back before Death Strike spam, might protest that they never wanted to tank this way either — but that’s not the point. The point to make here is that active mitigation won’t put the other three tanks in the same dire straits as we are, per se. While there are arguments to be made for and against active mitigation in general, active mitigation isn’t our only problem, if it’s a problem at all. Our problem, among other things, is that we’re reactively mitigating.Continue reading Lichborne: What the patch 4.3 tank changes may mean for death knightsFiled under: Death Knight, (Death Knight) LichborneLichborne: What the patch 4.3 tank changes may mean for death knights originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments

Every week, WoW Insider brings you Lichborne for blood, frost, and unholy death knights. In the post-Cataclysm era, death knights are no longer the new kids on the block. Let’s show the other classes how a hero class gets things done.

So by now, I’m sure everyone is aware of the huge tanking changes recently announced by Lead Systems Designer Greg «Ghostcrawler» Street. Of course, there are the immediate threat increases, but the really interesting part regards their plans for patch 4.3. They’re planning to put all four tanks on active mitigation models, similar to what death knights have currently with Death Strike, which is primarily the focus of today’s column.

There’s been an uproar from many corners with this announcement, with many tanks declaring that if they wanted to tank like a death knight, they would have rolled one. Funnily enough, many death knights who rolled the class to tank back when they could do it as frost or unholy, or back before Death Strike spam, might protest that they never wanted to tank this way either — but that’s not the point. The point to make here is that active mitigation won’t put the other three tanks in the same dire straits as we are, per se. While there are arguments to be made for and against active mitigation in general, active mitigation isn’t our only problem, if it’s a problem at all. Our problem, among other things, is that we’re reactively mitigating.Continue reading Lichborne: What the patch 4.3 tank changes may mean for death knightsFiled under: Death Knight, (Death Knight) LichborneLichborne: What the patch 4.3 tank changes may mean for death knights originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments