Quote Originally Posted by Sylvina View Post
Actually while filling in as tank for a raid static today they suggested I get drunk to deal with being nervous lol. I didn't because my doctor said no drinking.
I helped with a study over a decade ago in WoW to understand how drinking affects tanking ability, testing both veteran and noobie tanks in dungeon and raid circumstances and made a point-based system based on various elements of tanking style. The main thing we learned from that study was that the increased levels of apathy caused from drinking (we called them "the f**k-its" at the time) improved tanking ability based on the parameters that were set by up to 30%, with the greatest effect on people who had just picked up tanking and the least effect on seasoned tank players who already had a naturally-developed dose of "the f**k-its".

Of course for all tank players involved, performance went downhill once they got plastered enough to the point of not being able to see their screen.