Comments on: "Well, DPS… it's all up to you."

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:22:15 +0000

I’d be interested to know what all addons you’re using, esp for your UI.

By: Theaah

Theaah — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:21:12 +0000

My ten man group is a pretty melee heavy group (and our ranged don’t have great AOE – Hunter, Boomkin, Ele shaman). Iron Council hard mode is actually a LOT easier for us than medium mode because of this. We’ve only done medium mode once so far on ten man and I never, ever, ever want to do it again on my hunter. >_<

By: Gnomeaggedon

Gnomeaggedon — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:13:29 +0000

Great post…

Great example of where DPS is the lynchpin!

By: Xonate

Xonate — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:56:06 +0000

My warlock has gone offline.

My warrior has come online.

Gehehe, screenshot fun.

By: Hugo

Hugo — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:01:46 +0000

This post made me smile. Having played all 3 roles in raids. Normally dps is the least stressfull one. Thanks for showing that, sometimes, “feeling great afterwards” is 100% deserved even as dps! hehe

By: Eldadres

Eldadres — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:38:51 +0000

Great post, you’re right, the DPS really does not get thanked enough when doing their job. Honestly I find it a bit harder to play a DPS then the Tank/Healer, no matter how good a Tank or Healer is, the DPS is what makes or breaks a fight generally.

We can only Tank for so long before we die.

@Rilgon True that, I don’t even know how people can’t even generate 2000 TPS, seriously, I could probably do that with my god damn white damage.

Although there are some times where some classes do a ridiculous amount of threat. Generally they know what they’re doing if they have to ease up a bit, although it does give me a nice challenge when Tanking!

I <3 Crazy DPSers

By: xWarrior

xWarrior — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:27:59 +0000

What a great post and thanks for point out that DPS is the true thankless job in WoW.

By: Rilgon Arcsinh

Rilgon Arcsinh — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:58:22 +0000

Well I dont think that is the case, if the dps dies because they pulled aggro, well then why didnt the tank have the aggro to begin with.

Sweet eternal christ, THANK YOU.

Especially with tanks that fail to even generate 2000 TPS. I could out-threat that with Auto Shot FFS.

By: RJK

RJK — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:42:19 +0000

I love seeing other hunters UI’s.

Tanking is so stressfull, you always here the adage, If the tank dies its the healer’s fault, if the healer dies its the tank’s fault, if the DPS dies its their own darn fault.

Well I dont think that is the case, if the dps dies because they pulled aggro, well then why didnt the tank have the aggro to begin with. I see this so much with DK tanks. I have a warrior tank as my main and I try like heck to get as much agg at the start of a pull as I can, then i am still checking constantly omen, health bars, cooldowns, ahhhh the enormity of it.

By: Indigo Haze

Indigo Haze — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:42:00 +0000

Tank vs DPS… I feel more stressed out doing DPS.

Tanking all I have is a screen full of Boss Crotch(tm) and pray that my healers keep up while the DPS goes to work. Otherwise it’s faceroll keyboard for 30 to 540 seconds, depending on the fight.

DPS I have to make sure I move properly, activate abilities the nanosecond they come out of CD, min-max analyze everything at my disposal and still worry about the healers keeping me up depending on the fight. Being a Hunter means adding pet management on top of that (Rogues have it easy. :p).