Have you done (or seen perhaps) any work on deathknight threat?
I was adding to the pally/warrior threat comparison I did. I went on beta and worked out all the bear innate threats and coeffs etc. Much to my surprise, their single target threat was rather low, when I've heard beta reports thats its really good.
However, I am assuming that druids are wearing what I'd define as "bear gear". Higher stamina leather, with tank neck/rings/cloak/trinkets/enchants/weapon. Doing this it would appear (fallibility aside!) they're a) too strong in mitigation and b) weaker in threat (relatively). It occurred to me that if they were in "cat gear" or more accurately, rogue gear, it would actively balance both areas. While they have the option of all that mitigation, they risk falling below the now expected insurmountable threat line.
It's possible I'm just wrong, missed a decimal place somewhere, but it makes sense in both sets of theory that theyre balanced around, and expected to wear dps gear while tanking.
Looking at the frost DK numbers above, I think we'd agree that their avoidance mitigation is too high comparatively, but again, this deals with mitigation in isolation. The spec assumes mid blood rather than deep frost, sacrificing threat for survival. Perhaps DKs are expected to spec for damage in the same way druids may be gearing for it.
ziggyunderslashone
Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:00 am
