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| 0s | today today I want to talk about my very |
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| 3s | early impressions of the tanks in battle |
| 6s | for Azeroth alpha so to begin demon |
| 16s | hunters are definitely the outlier class |
| 19s | at the moment they feel really really |
| 21s | really solid probably to the point of |
| 24s | being worthy solid so either they're |
| 27s | going to get nerfed drastically or every |
| 29s | other tank is going to get brought up to |
| 31s | where they are but at the moment the |
| 32s | self-healing is crazy good the only |
| 35s | weird thing about them is that we don't |
| 37s | have shear anymore so the rotation feels |
| 39s | a little kind of odd and I wind up |
| 42s | sometimes just using glaive toss to push |
| 44s | a button you know almost as a filler |
| 46s | just because it really made a huge |
| 49s | difference not having a shear when it |
| 53s | comes to death Knights they're basically |
| 55s | how they are on live at the moment the |
| 57s | self-healing is great at the moment |
| 59s | second best only for demon hunters |
| 61s | mobility is still an issue of course |
| 63s | because I mean deep death Knights are |
| 65s | dead so it makes sense I guess the main |
| 67s | thing that I've noticed is resource |
| 69s | generation is a bit of a problem of |
| 70s | being our piece staffed quite often but |
| 73s | that could just be because decays are |
| 75s | more gear and step dependence perhaps |
| 77s | than the other tanks and the gear that |
| 78s | we're given with a fresh 110 it's green |
| 81s | gear my haste is like 25% it could very |
| 85s | well be that's the problem |
| 87s | as for paladin's they are really solid |
| 91s | they're great they have a button for |
| 93s | pretty much everything and then some |
| 95s | buttons to spare lighter the protector |
| 97s | is especially useful at the lower gear |
| 99s | levels we've been rocking in alpha and |
| 101s | basically I can anything that I can't |
| 104s | get hit in the face by I can kite with |
| 107s | my double pony it's it's fantastic |
| 109s | paladin's great |
| 113s | now druids druids are still kind of the |
| 117s | same they're not as solid as paladin but |
| 121s | they're still reliable they do a nice |
| 124s | amount of DPS self-healing is average |
| 127s | but it is slightly better than life I |
| 130s | feel like there's been some tweaks with |
| 131s | a frenzied regeneration and is a little |
| 133s | bit more effective I guess the main |
| 135s | problem that I have is that you have to |
| 137s | run the pulverized talent at the moment |
| 139s | if you don't run it you basically get |
| 141s | rekt in the content so it's almost |
| 145s | mandatory and that for me I never liked |
| 148s | the pulverized talent so that's probably |
| 149s | not sitting with me as well now when it |
| 153s | comes to warriors the lack of |
| 155s | self-healing it doesn't seem to be |
| 158s | balanced by increased DPS output so it's |
| 162s | making questing and soloing content far |
| 165s | more challenging than the other tanks |
| 167s | there's a spot that I've been using to |
| 169s | test the tanks outside of dungeons |
| 171s | because dungeon cues are a bit |
| 173s | impossible at the moment so I've got a |
| 175s | place it has some casters and really |
| 177s | heavy hitting casters like stupidly |
| 179s | hard-hitting and some elites and it's a |
| 182s | vast difference between my warrior not |
| 186s | being able to take on one of the elites |
| 188s | and one of the casters without |
| 190s | eventually dying this is my demon hunter |
| 193s | that can take on probably five or six |
| 195s | casters and the elite definitely the |
| 198s | same like four or five casters the |
| 200s | Paladin maybe four or five casters the |
| 203s | druid maybe three or four but why are |
| 205s | you in monk if it goes anything above |
| 207s | maybe two casters and in the elite I |
| 210s | just get absolutely wrecked and I cannot |
| 212s | self-sustained I cannot kill them first |
| 214s | enough and I can't recover the health |
| 216s | that I'm losing because of the |
| 217s | self-healing so there's my main I guess |
| 220s | my main concern I have done dungeons on |
| 222s | warrior and the dungeons were fine there |
| 225s | were a couple of times where it was kind |
| 227s | of like everything's going really |
| 228s | smoothly we'd pull an extra pack and |
| 230s | then it would just be oh my god we're |
| 231s | all dead but that to be fair is on some |
| 234s | of the other tanks as well except for |
| 236s | demon hunter who can pull like four |
| 238s | and still be alive at the end as I said |
| 241s | they're outliers but yeah so I I don't |
| 243s | know with warrior whether they need |
| 245s | maybe a little bit more love in terms of |
| 249s | being able to do more dps perhaps or |
| 252s | this something there's a bit of an |
| 254s | imbalance and I'm struggling more and |
| 256s | worried at the moment and finally we |
| 261s | have monk so as with warrior healing is |
| 264s | an issue with monks Healing spheres are |
| 266s | an absolute joke the frequency at which |
| 269s | they pop even with the seventy five |
| 271s | percent increase it's maybe one one a |
| 274s | facial some might get to a fight and |
| 276s | then even if I do they they basically do |
| 279s | next to no healing a fuse struggles to |
| 283s | recover a quarter of my health before I |
| 286s | run out of energy to keep spamming it as |
| 288s | with decays I've been finding monk a |
| 290s | struggle for generating a resource and |
| 293s | I've had actually had to opt out of |
| 295s | using blackout combo simply because |
| 298s | maintaining the rotation completely |
| 300s | starved me of energy and yeah that's an |
| 303s | interesting situation I should also note |
| 305s | here that I haven't been up to run a |
| 306s | dungeon on my monk because as I |
| 308s | mentioned before the lfg system isn't |
| 311s | well it isn't sort of want to say it's |
| 314s | broken but it obviously with how many |
| 316s | people are in it now it's really |
| 317s | difficult to get a group so it's not for |
| 320s | lack of trying because I spent like |
| 322s | eight hours queueing over the course of |
| 324s | three days and I could not get a dungeon |
| 326s | I tried and I try but I just it's it's |
| 329s | early alpha and that kind of thing so |
| 330s | it's to be expected so I guess with that |
| 333s | in mind my monk opinions could very well |
| 337s | be changed if I had been able to get |
| 339s | into a group they might be better for |
| 341s | you know team playing group play as |
| 344s | opposed to solo play so overall I |
| 347s | haven't noticed a lot of significant |
| 349s | changes between live and alpha aside |
| 352s | from the shift towards fewer tricks for |
| 354s | mitigating magic damage the only real |
| 357s | thing I've noticed is damage output and |
| 359s | self-healing there's obviously a lot of |
| 361s | tweaking yet to come |
| 362s | and it seems to me like Blizzard might |
| 364s | be moving in the direction of making |
| 366s | tanks more dependent on their healers |
| 369s | with the exception of demon hunters |
| 371s | which |
| 372s | again sigh they're going to be nerfed or |
| 374s | are they could potentially wind up being |
| 376s | the go-to class for people like me who |
| 379s | really love to the challenge of soloing |
| 382s | content and being more self-sufficient |
| 383s | as a tank that could be an interesting |
| 386s | situation um anyway my voice is |
| 390s | definitely about to fail on me so I'm |
| 392s | gonna bid you farewell |
| 393s | that's my very very early take on the |
| 396s | state of tanks at the very beginning of |
| 399s | the Alpha that is Battle of Asura |
| 402s | I just want to emphasize that everything |
| 403s | that I've said here could definitely |
| 404s | change it's more so I I like seeing |
| 408s | behind the curtain as it were so it's |
| 411s | not my critique of battle for Azeroth |
| 415s | it's more like this is how the tanks are |
| 417s | at the moment and we now get to see what |
| 420s | it looks like as they get developed from |
| 422s | alpha bill to alpha building then |
| 424s | eventually into beta and then the |
| 425s | various beta builds and then on to live |
| 427s | so it's kind of I like to see how these |
| 430s | concepts have come from very very early |
| 434s | notions to a more polished product at |
| 437s | the end of beta so that's it let me know |
| 441s | what direction you think tanks will be |
| 443s | going in for BFA do you think there'll |
| 446s | be more dependency on our healers and |
| 447s | fewer tanks all those previous tier II |
| 450s | boss kind of videos going around thanks |
| 455s | very much for the company enjoy the rest |
| 458s | of your morning day afternoon evening |
| 460s | whatever the case might be and I'll |
| 462s | hopefully see you next time |