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With 6.1 the issue isn't mitigation so much as it is that we lack the time to use our self buffs adequately while trying to hold aggro (at end game). This is what I personally have noticed. Our...

Exactly, why would you choose to use something is that is marginally inferior and has no other benefits.

To the others, there are definitely times where using single target aggro skills is needed....

What I think is completely stupid with the design of threat is that EoB has the greatest single target threat amount even after the fix. I don't think it needs to be nerfed, but our single target...

Its also times like these where I get more discouraged as a person who likes to raid and can sometimes struggle finding a complete raid group. Giving away raid loot in lotteries baffles me. /endrant

When I am tanking a boss I will try to mix it in when I get a chance (especially Kalbok), but I certainly don't make sure to keep it up all the time. The 20 sec duration is what really makes it...

Given the nature of the changes it would seem as though you are now supposed to kill the spiders as they spawn instead of tanking them. A ranged DPS it would seems would be best fit in this role.

I think he was referring to hunters and champs, and if you really like I can probably dig up some 3k ish parses from raids on my hunter. 4-5k seems silly high though, unless you stacked like 6 burgs...

Ya my warden DPS build is kind of a hobby so to speak. I usually use him for tanking in Raids being as there is rarely a surplus of tanks and dearth of DPS. Having said that I find it fun to play...

I bet I could come close to it in Acid (with a couple burgs in the group) before the first acid rise. Also, while my hunter can do 3k+ DPS in that situation, I've yet to find a tank that can hold...

I depends on the fight to be honest. If you have a good DPS gear, and there are a decent amount of Physical based DPS classes in your group I can see a warden being a viable DPS slot for Acid and...

I've been tanking it for a long time (usually swapping). Since U6 I've solo tanked a couple times, only blowing up once or twice and in fact the one time I almost didn't tier up at all. Solo...

For my Warden, the tanking jewelery set made sense because with the set bonuses it makes it better overall. I don't think i'll be grinding it for my champ though being as it is more Vit heavy than...

I've always kind of had this same though line for guards getting aggro initially, but I personally don't have a guard so I've not been able to test it per say (nor would I want to tell a guard how to...

I'd like to see some comparison parses. I don't have a guard so I only see things from my warden's perceptive, but to be honest I feel my warden is as good or better than a guard when played well. ...

I build for as much as I reasonably can. Traiting Fidelity and Tolerance pretty much all the time and using the Tactical Mit Necklace. That gets me to around 5800ish rating (about 30% mitigation),...

You do realize there is a tactical mitigation necklace that you can get for casters. I wasn't referring to using the Agi Tact Mit necklace on my RK. I just didn't happen to have it equipped when I...

Not really, you can get 600ish tactical mitigation on both a rune stone passive and legacy title for a satchel for an RK. So up to 40% mitigation it really is a lot easier to get Tact mit on an RK. ...

In all honesty, my best suggestion for dealing with steam is to be able to do more DPS on the Boss so it has less time to tier up.

I'd like to see Spear of Virtue get some kind of ToT component to it. Being as it has no buffs tied to it I see little reason to ever use it if it is generating the same threat as say SoD.

I personally don't think warden's are a weak link at all anymore in a raid in terms of taking damage. Especially once DC is fixed. Having HoT's stacked along with high crit defense and BPE, I...

My tactical Mit is around 5600-6000 depending on traits unbuffed. My ICPR is pretty bad though, but it is not an issue in raids with food, cappies, LM's etc. ICPR is probably like 800ish unbuffed....

You are being very misleading with this statement. You cannot BPE tactical damage sources, but you can BPE things that are tactical damage so long as they are not tactical source. I solo tanked...

Hey just get an RK to throw Rune Sign on you ... 40k Mastery piece of cake :).

Switch to Crit+Agi gems. That is what I did. With food and buffs I cap out crit in raids with the rep set and gained quite a bit of mastery.

OK, I know I am going to get a ton of people that tell me I'm crazy, but I am trying to work on a Trapper of the Foes build to see if its viable for raiding (thinking boss fights, I realize its good...