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by Adam Holisky 
Dec 16th 2008 at 4:40PM
Ghostcrawler mentioned last night that the Druid ability Swipe was on their radar for a fix. Blizzard, and many Druids, felt that when you combined Swipe with the global cooldown it wasn't generating enough threat. There have also been extenuating issues concerning Swipe's effectiveness in picking up mobs in a uniform manner, often requiring the druid to have near perfect positioning.That's now been "fixed" today via a hotfix.
Swipe's threat has been increased by 50%.
Previously the limitation on the number of targets swipe could hit was removed, along with other classes AoE tanking abilities like Thunder Clap.
The immediate effect of this won't be known beyond "it'll let Druids AoE tank better." There might be some backlash from the other classes that Swipe will now cause too much threat compared to their abilities (thus tipping the scale in favor of a Druid tank). There also might be some concern that people will just spam Swipe.
Only time and everyone's reaction will tell.
Thanks to vsureaper for the tip!
Filed under: Druid, News items
Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
flameflash82 Dec 17th 2008 10:40AM
Oddly this was meant as a response to havitech who was a response to vortok.
doublej Dec 17th 2008 3:48PM
Honestly swipe threat really isn't an issue for me either. The thing I hate the most about swipe is the target requirment, ie. you need to have a mob targeted in order to even swipe period. I'm fine with swipe being in a cone, fine with threat, just remove the target requirment so that I can hit anything in that cone that's in range regardless of whether a mob is my target.
Elzreth Jan 20th 2009 1:45PM
With Glyph of Maul so Maul hits 2 targets I just Macro one key to do both Maul and Swipe. Being on separate cooldowns I have them going all the time and have no problem generating and holding threat. I even slightly out DPS my 78 Frost DK and my Bear-Tank is lvl 73 (about 1k DPS). My DK has to work hard to manage the same DPS and AOE/Multi-Mob Tanking is far more difficult with the DK.