Thread: 4.0 (Or 3.5) Tank Changes

Originally Posted by Jamafore

Is it bad that in large pulls I'm almost relying on Dark Passenger's blind effect till I get hate settled and to ease the amount of healing the healer has to use? It's almost always the second thing I do after hitting Blood Price. Why take it away? Granted it's not a huge amount of mitigation, but I'm in the school of every little bit helps

Dark dance+ dark passenger is one of DRK's best CD combos

Sometimes I like to combine foresight with dark mind to create a weaker shadowskin

Originally Posted by Jamafore

Is it bad that in large pulls I'm almost relying on Dark Passenger's blind effect till I get hate settled and to ease the amount of healing the healer has to use? It's almost always the second thing I do after hitting Blood Price. Why take it away? Granted it's not a huge amount of mitigation, but I'm in the school of every little bit helps

I usually Dark Passenger + Dark Dance, Drop Grit with BP while spamming DA + Abyssal Drain, with a Balance card (AoE one) I'm crit healing myself for 2k which is pretty fun.

Originally Posted by Jamafore

It's almost always the second thing I do after hitting Blood Price.

Using DA+DP under BP is a bad idea - any attack that misses you won't give you back mana. However once BP ends you can freely use DA+DP and DA+DD and they're actually pretty decent at that point.

But that doesn't mean they're perfect. DA+DP and DA+DD are both useless in raids, they're basically dungeon-exclusive cooldowns. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but if you have the option of having a cooldown that can be used in both or a cooldown that can just be used in one, surely you'd want the one that can be used in both.

I think talk of tank changes atm are pretty pointless though - a lot is probably going to change in 4.0 so any change like "they should make DA+DD do this!" could contradict with some other change they're making that we have no idea about. I guess they could change some things in 3.5 but it'd be pointless when there's no new raid content.