Shifting Perspectives: Why effective health needs to die, part 2

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11-27-2009 @ 5:37PM

Bikhai said...

The fact remains that Stamina isn't the same thing as EH. Stamina will always be important as EH. The problem right now is that even though some bosses do hit like a truck, requiring a lot of stamina and a lot of armor to mitigate it, there is more to the tanking equation than just those stats.

What Allison is saying is that we need to get away from EH as the sole determination of a tank's value and start looking more at the other factors that contribute to survivability. And yes, developers are moving away from EH with ICC. Smaller, more consistent hits against tanks means that you don't have to stack Stam/AC out the wazoo to survive like you do in current content.

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