#0 - Nov. 4, 2009, 8:49 p.m.
I'm not really fond of runestrike as a crutch to hold threat.
Let's face it..... if your a DK tank if RS lights up alot your threat will be fine.
However there are those times it just doesn't light up at all............ now before you pallies and warriors get all emo like (hey man we miss stuff too and it hurts our threat) I want to point out that RS isn't like anything else anyother class has. It requires a sequence of motions.... dodge parry, then our next auto attack.
I believe the term some blizz mod used was "overpowerevengestrike" but anyways I like runestrike and think it has a place, but imo it's just it's too much of a crutch for DK tanking.
It's like a catch 22..... you need to RS to hold good threat (granted your dps'ers aren't terrible) but sometimes it won't let you and we cannot hold threat end game on bosses without using it. Therefore we are an RNG based tank system all around RS.
Some fights RS just isn't as useful on certain bosses (as in hardly lights up).
If RNG screws us on RS not activating we get caught very fast by skilled hunters/warlock.
DK threat is low.... no problem you can buff it another way but I don't really like the idea of doing it through RS (even though I'm sure what I say won't affect the decision at all).
Also I'd like to say RS buff is a nice start but what about unholy tanking threat end game? AoE wise it's hurting more than ever and single target needs help also.
Is there any plans to help UD tanking or is it sort of shevled as a pvp/dps tree now?