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The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Eternal Vigilance?

June 4th, 2010

The Care and Feeding of Warriors is about warriors, those lovable, squeezable, strokeable bundles of pure joy who seethe with a burning inner fire, a rage that can only be quenched in blood. Matthew Rossi tries quenching it in delicious caffeinated beverages. You’d be surprised how often that works.

Sorry to say that this week we won’t be covering levels 21 to 40 as I’d hoped. First off, I spent this week between feeling ill, raiding and taking a trip to go see dinosaurs, so alts didn’t see a lot of play time. Secondly, we had some interesting blue posts to discuss. Well, I found them interesting, anyway.

Ghostcrawler – Re: Vigilance

The Taunt renew part of Vigilance is cool and being able to essentially Salv someone can be useful too. Actually gaining threat from using the ability makes it feel like Defiance 2.0 though. You feel like you have to use it all the time (not that that’s a huge burden, but still) to achieve the threat levels that other tanks essentially get without the talent.

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In order to really appreciate this comment, you have to remember Defiance and how it affected tanking and tanking warriors before Wrath launched. Defiance was a talent aimed at increasing prot warrior threat over that of arms and fury warriors who were dropping into defensive stance for whatever reason in its original form. It was a staple of a protection build going back so far as to vanilla WoW.

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