Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
Isn't survivability...supposed to be our thing ? And frankly, raids force their tank to DPS, so, why not heal?
We already have plenty of survivability via our cooldowns. And there's a lot of things wrong with a tank being forced to DPS in raids the way this game does. The tank focuses on surviving and holding aggro, not doing the healer's job for them.
No, it wouldn't. It's not like Blind makes everything automatically miss. It's exactly like an Evasion boost, but for the other part of the equation. It was useful against Titan HM, to dodge Moutain Buster (God, it felt so satysfying ), but not to the point of breaking the game.
Trivializing boss abilities, even in an RNG fashion the way Blind would allow, is simply too much. Which to me is not that different from asking to be able to stun/silence Judgement Nisi or Ravana's liberation attacks.
How? It's only a form of interruption, and you can't spam it. But if you really think it's too much, replace it with a few seconds of reduced damaged, like reprisal. Again, reducing damage is supposed to be OUR thing.
Now you're talking about changing the effects of Shield Swipe as a whole. I'm not opposed to this per se, but that's a discussion for another topic.
You see, the fun part is that bosses build absolutely no resist on some debuffs. Storm's Eye and Path are always fully applied, Reprisal, too...
You missed my point. You'd see a wider use of interrupt mechanics if they weren't status effects that lasted a couple of seconds. Raids used to have to work out interrupt rotations (which largely involved the melee DPS in the raid) for bosses in WoW because those fights were tuned around the raid interrupting certain boss abilities to actually get the clear (whose use range from mitigating tank/raid damage like with Kel'thuzad or avoiding effects that created massive inconveniences to the raid like with General Vezzax).