With the way tank threat is now, is skittish going to be the worst affix in S3?
Skittish is the easiest damn affix all you have to do is bring a hunter or rogue and don’t mongoloid
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To be fair a lot of groups don’t have a rogue or a Hunter in them for the extra threat to the tank. My usual Mythic + group I run with is Guardian Druid (me), Havoc Demon Hunter, Fury Warrior, Elemental Shaman, Holy Paladin. Sometimes the healer is subbed out for a pug and one of our DPS gets subbed out for a Retribution Paladin.
However, there is a way to still do big pulls without a Hunter or a Rogue. The way is to have your tank use the new essence The Anima of Life and Death. It gives a big amount of threat when cast and it only has a 2 minute cooldown.
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Isn’t that like 95% of the playerbase though?
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I always found skittish weeks to be good for pugging because tanks and healers aren’t stressed out about something like quaking / bursting and everyone instantly dies, worst case scenario a dps dies over and over again, which doesn’t really matter if they rez up and run fast.
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Indeed Feign Death’s in the corner 
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My “burst kit” of Anima of Life and Death and Razdunk’s big Red button into a bonstorm gives me pretty much unlimited threat for a while. Over 100k+ burst damage. I don’t think Skittish will be so bad. I do think tanks will have to use a bit more dps oriented choices, because dps burst is definitely getting absurd.
It wasn’t bad before, it won’t be that bad now. Probably have to relax on the iris + eyebeam in the first 0.05 seconds but based on the damage I’ve seen thunderclap/swipe doing in M+ I’m not that concerned.
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What does this even mean? Tank threat was reduced, tank damage was increased. The only threat that matters is burst and people can just chill for a second and not worry.
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it means DPS will have to make sure their burst CDs line up with the tank avatar/bonestorm/wings/ anima essence / watheverelse.
a complete non-issue in organized group, but as usual, a complete mess in random pug.
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Lost a timer yesterday finding out that threat from essence damage won’t be redirected by tricks, that’s fun
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What person is ever stressed by quaking? It’s effectively a dead affix outside of wanting to try and drink after combat at which point it is the greatest of trolls.
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DPS just need to cool their jets a bit at the start. Honestly, if you continually rip aggro from the tank it’s your fault. Here and there fine, but if you’re ripping constantly you need to give it a second before you start beaming and blowing your CD’s.
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Let’s put it this way
If you are pugging as a tank and you join a group with 3 melee DPS or a mixture of DPS without hunter + rogue, then do yourself a favor and leave
I fully expect that every pug I join or host (regardless of score) will have complete garbage threat management by DPS players, especially your average havoc DH who can’t find his dispel + stun buttons
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I’m not worried about the skittish. I’m worried about bursting and these damn azerite lasers.
EDIT: Now worried about skittish and azerite lasers, recalling the times I’ve managed to pull threat off the tank using my laser right after using tricks of the trade on a normal week.
Confirmed.
Tanked a 9 KR on my alt prot pally earlier this morning… had a DH in the group that was literally eyebeaming 0.1 seconds into each pull before I could even use 2 gcd’s and pulling stuff off me.
Had to let him die to one of the berserkers before he learned.
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I mean the thing is that have seen DPS pulling aggro of tanks all day long since season 3 started, like most dont even know tha tanks threat is not scaling as well even with a minor help for tanks after a buff.
So yeah i expect to see a lot of DPS speciall the bad ones (which are most) die all over and over and blame the tank.
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I would be more concerned with the normal 1 mob at 15% hp and the rest at 75%+ for bolstering than i am with skittish.
unless your running +15s every melee dps can tank there own elite from 100-0 though the ocassional Iris+beam on large pull will likely be a “splat”.
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Tank threat got reduced much more severely than tank DPS got increased. Tank threat is about half of what it was in Legion, while tank DPS is roughly 50% higher than it was in Legion.
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Tank threat in Legion was so obscene it might as well have been a removed mechanic. In BFA, they replaced it as something a tank player has to think about, but only barely. After global 4 on any decent pull (non body scramble pull), it returns to being a complete 0 even on skittish weeks.
So if your point is that threat somewhat matters now, sure, but is it in any way difficult? Nah. If a DPS is pooling their pros for pull on skittish, that’s on them.
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