Tanking Design

Legion was a fantastic expansion in many ways, but as I look back over the raid fights as a main tank, I can't help but notice the developers have fallen into a rut with the design of tank encounters.

We now have our first look at a host of changes to the tanking classes in Battle for Azeroth.

Originally, I had wanted to focus today on Brewmaster cooldowns in general.

No matter how many moving parts an encounter has, how it is ultimately tanked can be boiled down to one of a few formulas that Blizzard repeats over and over again when designing fights. As human beings, one of our evolutionary survival skills is recognizing patterns – many times, if you're like me, you'll be tanking a new encounter and think to yourself “hang on, I've seen this before.”