#0 - Oct. 6, 2010, 8:34 p.m.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/769367-Patch-4.0.1-PTR-Build-13156
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DPS - 1000 damage * 0.7 = 700 threat
Tank - 1000 damage * 2.037 = 2037 threat
2037 / 700 = 2.91
Most dps classes effectively put out about 70% of their damage as threat. Also, in terms of final numbers, tanks usually put out slightly more than the flat stance modifier multiplied by their damage as threat. Calling it approx 3x dps' threat (average) for a given point of damage is probably realistic.
Really, all they've done is normalized all dps classes' threat modifiers and restored the relative threat generation of tanks.
Increases by 225% in the absence of dps modifiers was a nerf to tank threat generation.
Q u o t e:
it seems like Blizzard wants to take tanks back to the Vanilla days of "Tank 1 mob and CC the rest".
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To word it another way, if a dps used an ability that generated 100 threat, if a tank used an ability which did the exact same damage, they would generate 300 threat.
He is NOT saying that the total threat output of a tank is 3 times the threat output of dps.
Q u o t e:
I asked before (with a good reason) can you please switch to AoE as your acronym?
We can't do a search using the forum search tool on just 2 characters, your tool requires us to use 3.