Grand Master Alchemist Mazra wrote:
I meant balance as in game balance, but yeah.
Bear tanking pre-81 is just horrible. From what I've read on the Oboards, post-81 isn't all that hot either. Not the same amount of AOE to deal with, making Lacerate and Maul spam doable, but Thrash is apparently quite underwhelming.
Pre-81 bear tanking was making me miserable. Post 81 all is good in the world again.
I'm having a blast now and have next to no aggro issues. DPS pulls only when they are willfully ignoring kill targets or not paying attention. I need to setup my UI to track the Pulv buff better but otherwise it is pretty smooth sailing.
I've tanked all of the normal dungeons, didn't finish HoO as group collapsed do to loot drama. Most of them multiple times actually. Swipe is not a threat generator, it is a tool to help maintain threat. Thrash and the rest of the toolkit generates threat.
That being said, I couldn't imagine bring a bear up these days. Mangle, on CD; Maul, on CD; FFF, level 24+ a CD; Swipe, level 36 + a CD; Lacerate, level 66; Thrash, level 81 + a CD. Way to make bear tanking as a leveling method retarded.
Most other tanks get the bulk of their tools earlier so they can l2play. Bears don't get the whole thing until level 81 and don't even get their only spammable attack until level 66. So it is the rotate CDs and pray you hold aggro game until then against AoEing DPS in full BoA gear.
They seriously need to readjust the levels bears get some of their skills at, as the current pace is dumbz.
Tanking in Cata is awesome though. I'm enjoying it greatly.