Tanking Frustration: I blame WoW

[Khyranthir]

Funny thing is that I remember threat meters being a pretty important mod to have when I was raiding in WoW. Mind you, I only played from vanilla up to Cataclysm so I'm not familiar how much the mechanics have changed. But I would have thought that WoW's raiding community would at least be aware of threat management upon joining FFXIV. Having it be part of the game and not some add-on is a godsend.

Granted, WoW was full of idiots too. Can't say they'd be any different once they get here.

[Kerrath]

Funny thing is that I remember threat meters being a pretty important mod to have when I was raiding in WoW. Mind you, I only played from vanilla up to Cataclysm so I'm not familiar how much the mechanics have changed.

Threat ceased to be an issue in 3.0, aka the pre-patch for WotLK. After that point, if someone pulled aggro, it was the tank's fault. 3.0 increased the DPS of all tanks. Later, (forgot when) threat went from 2x to 5x, and then after that, vengeance was added, which was a mechanic that made tanks do even more dps than before. After Cataclysm the DPS requirement to pull aggro from a non-retarded tank (aka at their computer, monitor turned on, keyboard plugged in, mouse plugged in, connected to the internet, logged into the game, conscious, paying attention, hands on mouse+keyboard, eyes open, not physically or mentally disabled) was astronomical. This has stayed true through to mists of pandaria. btw if a couple of the things i previously mentioned were missing you could probably still hold aggro.

Coincidentally, if a DPS didn't install Omen after the launch of WotLK, I didn't give a shit as a tank, because never once did I lose aggro, even during the time when I was using a wonky non-responsive mouse that would periodically die and the keys started to fall out of my keyboard at a regular rate.