If you are currently playing a tank in World of Warcraft, you are increasingly facing problems. Blizzard promises improvements regarding aggro.
“Aggro problems” have long been a thing of the past in World of Warcraft. Since Wrath of the Lich King, tanks have rarely faced the issue of maintaining threat from opponents. Typically, the abilities of tanks generate so much threat that these enemies release from the tank only in exceptional cases.
However, that has changed in recent weeks. The new essences in the Heart of Azeroth are to blame.
What is the problem? With Patch 8.2 the Heart of Azeroth was expanded and provides all characters with new active and passive abilities. While this means more healing for healers and more survivability for tanks, damage dealers get significantly more damage. This damage, however, plays into the threat and makes many tanks quite stressed. The more traits a damage dealer possesses in the Heart of Azeroth, the harder it becomes for the tank, who can barely keep up with taunting.
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What does Blizzard intend to do? Blizzard has announced it will address the problem with a hotfix. Tanks will then receive a threat bonus passively through their Heart of Azeroth when they unlock the essence slots. This should make it easier for tanks to maintain threat against particularly strong damage dealers in the future.
The hotfix is supposed to go live today, July 24, and will probably be deployed by tonight. Until then, overzealous damage dealers might want to hold back a bit.
Do you think this is a good solution? Or would it be better if there were really aggro problems again when tanking? Does that even fit into today’s WoW era?
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