The Light and How to Swing It: Tanking stat changes in Cataclysm

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4-07-2010 @ 11:33PM

Mattimus said...

I think, come Cataclysm, Blizz sort of expects you to have Dual Spec. Now, this hurts folk who dual spec into Prot and Holy, that's a given, but I just wanted to point that out before someone else did.

That said, Blizz has ALSO said they want to increase the amount of damage that tanks do, because over the course of this expansion, the amount of damage for DPS grew a LOT, while the amount of damage for Tanks didn't. They'll likely lower the amount of AOE damage for all tanks, and increase single-target damage quite a bit. This will bring a higher level of difficulty to Heroics, since DPS will have to burn down targets one at a time rather than the AOEfest we have now, which they're clearly trying to avoid a second time.

So, yeah. As tanks, hopefully we'll see a significant improvement in our single target DPS that'll make soloing and questing not as much of a worry as you seem to think it will be.

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