If Blizz wants us to go back to an off-tank, they will have to de-tune certain fights. With this change, it's possible we end up with fights failed because a tank had to use his taunt on adds and not a tank swap. Currently we have some DPS checks that have adds all over the place. One of the things allowing for more interesting raid fights was the idea that tanks wouldn't lose threat against DPS. I worry how this will affect fight design. you may hit all your aoe, but if that's all you hit mob with and that warlock went to town on it as soon as tank ran in, warlock will end up tanking a couple of those mobs initially Comment by Rovingbandit on T23:05:12-05:00 Probably why article notes 'having to tab targets and use taunts on secondary targets'. It actually already has in heavy dungeon aoe. I'm sure this will make no real difference. Comment by PropheticVision on T23:02:23-05:00ДЄs a Tank I approve of this in theory, now if only I could get a Beta Key to test it in practice. IвЂ™ll just need some Netflix for that one story runвЂ™s DPS queue. Dungeons framed as вЂњteam contentвЂќ instead of вЂњgroup contentвЂќ is ultimately better for their identity, but ainвЂ™t no way IвЂ™m PUGing those growing pains. Thankfully world quests, islands and warfronts say I donвЂ™t have to! IвЂ™ll do the story runs with my warlock and then wait for guild runs. Queued dungeons are intentionally and culturally now a farm system for the MDI, and I have zero desire to feed that culture. Not really complaining because thankfully we have options now, which of course intentionally comes hand in hand with these changes. Haahaaa thatвЂ™s the sound of all nine of my tank alts retiring from dungeon PUGs and retreating to the copious role-agnostic content offerings! No one who started in recent expansions will be ready for the old school threat tug of war! I just fear pick up content, where people mostly burst on aggro. I don't understand why they're doing this right know but ok I guess they seems to want to make the decision taking more important in BFA. Seems good! Comment by Ryuthedragon on T23:00:36-05:00 Seems the gameplay is coming back to the roots, when tanking wasn`t dependend solely on gear. I wanna know what's the idea behind this, this used to be a thing back in vanilla/tbc, but now it's kinda questionable to do this kind of change, makes me kinda concerned about how this is gonna affect M+. Interesting, I wonder how this works out. Choo choo, coming through Comment by Mike21daisu on T22:53:57-05:00 Using the Threat Meter addon Omen we can illustrate with some pictures.Д®quipping a non-artifact Weapon, we can see that the Threat a tank deals from just auto attacks is just above 5 times the damage dealt.Д®quipping an artifact Weapon, we can see that the Threat a tank deals from just auto attacks is around 7 times the damage dealt.Д®quipping a non-artifact Weapon, we can see that the Threat a DPS deals from just auto attacks is around half the damage dealt.Д®quipping an artifact Weapon, we can see that the Threat a DPS deals from just auto attacks is still around half the damage dealt. A tank still generates over 10 times the threat of a DPS, it's just shown in a different way in Legion. If a DPS deals 100 points of damage, they actually receive 50 Threat and a Tank is supposed to receive 500 Threat on the meter.

In Legion, it's important to note that threat is halved.

In Battle for Azeroth, a Tank receives 64k Threat on the meter.

In Legion, a Tank receives around 220k-320k Threat on the meter.

For comparison the Skittish affix currently reduces Threat by 75%.ДЄs a simple example, if a DPS deals 16k damage, they will receive 16k Threat while: For some tanks it may be up to an 80% threat reduction but may vary due to weird nature of Legion Threat. This is a massive threat reduction from Legion. As a baseline, Tanks will generate 4 times more Threat than DPS.

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