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The Care and Feeding of Warriors: Cataclysm tanking, part 3

Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, News items, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors

Every week, WoW Insider brings you The Care and Feeding of Warriors, the column dedicated to arms, fury and protection warriors. Despite repeated blows to the head from dragons, demons, Old Gods and whatever that thing over there was, Matthew Rossi will be your host.

A week or so ago, while I was planning out this series of posts about tanking in Cataclysm, our old friend (well, okay, I"ve never met nor spoken to him) Ghostcrawler (lead systems designer) had some interesting things to say about the current state of hit and expertise for tanks. I wasn"t able to immediately address them because I"d already written out what would be published, and so I had to wait until this column to talk about the history of hit and expertise for tanks in previous expansions and what the current state of the art is.

As warriors, we"ve been grappling with hit and expertise for years now. Why, you may ask, are they suddenly less viable for tanks than they were during Wrath? Well, believe it or not, hit and expertise have become less compelling for tanks entirely because of two big quality of life changes for tanks: the removal of parry hasting and taunt miss chance.

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WoW InsiderThe Care and Feeding of Warriors: Cataclysm tanking, part 3 originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 02 Apr 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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