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One of the things that most Wrath-era tanks learned early was to stack stamina. It was a no-brainer. We were taking massive, massive damage on every boss fight. In the Naxx era, a 30k-health warrior tank was doing decently and could expect to take a 23k hit back to back on certain fights. It only got worse going into Ulduar, then Trial, and finally ICC. Tank health went up, and so too did the amount of damage the tank was expected to soak. Cooldown use became so critical that the time cooldowns took to recharge decreased dramatically. Fights like Sartharion (especially with three drakes up), Mimiron, the Beasts of Northrend and Deathbringer Saurfang (just to name a few) saw tanks being expected to come up with ways to stay alive from monstrous, unavoidable damage. Stamina and armor became two of the most popular means to that end, but armor could only mitigate physical damage, while stamina worked on everything, even the huge magical blasts of damage that ignored armor and all other avoidance or mitigation strategies.
Stamina was king in Wrath.
The more I think about it, though, the more I think that king has been dethroned.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Stat stacking for tanks (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-stat-stacking-for-tanks/)
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Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/), the column dedicated to arms (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/arms-warrior-the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors), fury (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/fury-warrior-the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors) and protection warriors (http://wow.joystiq.com/tag/protection-warrior-the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors). Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.
One of the things that most Wrath-era tanks learned early was to stack stamina. It was a no-brainer. We were taking massive, massive damage on every boss fight. In the Naxx era, a 30k-health warrior tank was doing decently and could expect to take a 23k hit back to back on certain fights. It only got worse going into Ulduar, then Trial, and finally ICC. Tank health went up, and so too did the amount of damage the tank was expected to soak. Cooldown use became so critical that the time cooldowns took to recharge decreased dramatically. Fights like Sartharion (especially with three drakes up), Mimiron, the Beasts of Northrend and Deathbringer Saurfang (just to name a few) saw tanks being expected to come up with ways to stay alive from monstrous, unavoidable damage. Stamina and armor became two of the most popular means to that end, but armor could only mitigate physical damage, while stamina worked on everything, even the huge magical blasts of damage that ignored armor and all other avoidance or mitigation strategies.
Stamina was king in Wrath.
The more I think about it, though, the more I think that king has been dethroned.Continue reading The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Stat stacking for tanks (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-stat-stacking-for-tanks/)
Filed under: Warrior (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/warrior/), (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors/), Cataclysm (http://wow.joystiq.com/category/cataclysm/)
The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Stat stacking for tanks (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/18/the-care-and-feeding-of-warriors-stat-stacking-for-tanks/) originally appeared on WoW Insider (http://wow.joystiq.com) on Sat, 18 Dec 2010 14:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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