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Overall everyone has a slightly different opinion on how this will affect them. \u00a0DPS seem to generally be unhappy that Tanks \/ Healers will be getting rewards for queuing into the Dungeon Finder and they will not. \u00a0Others are happy that queue times will shrink down. \u00a0Others think a ton of DPS \/ Healers will switch to tanking to get the benefit of the new goodie bag.<\/p>\n
Let’s go over this just for a moment. \u00a0Queue times for DPS are absurdly long. \u00a0As a tank, I generally never notice this until I decide I want to try knocking heads in my retribution spec for a while. \u00a0Then comes the 45-60 minute queue time. \u00a0That is a bit ridiculous and it’s no small wonder why people are so upset. \u00a0So, to offset this, Blizzard has been trying to think of ways to generate more tanks and healers in the system.<\/p>\n
With that in mind they decided a good idea would be to offer additional incentives for the less represented roles (Tanks and Healers) so they would have additional reason to join up into the LFD Tool. \u00a0Naturally they tried to avoid incentives like Justice, Valor, Honor or Conquest Points as that would tend to disrupt their current gearing model. \u00a0 Additionally this wouldn’t work out for long as soon the less represented roles would be geared out and have less of a reason to join again. \u00a0So they went with gold, gems, pets and rare mounts. \u00a0Overall this is a pretty effective “bribe” as shown by the sheer number of people upset or very happy with the change based on the rewards presented.<\/p>\n
Why do people keep referring to this as a Tank Bribe? \u00a0Well, so far as we have seen, tanks are definitely the least represented role. \u00a0Why? \u00a0We’ll get to that. \u00a0So these rewards will typically be given to the tank as the call to arms will usually be that role. \u00a0Now what would this do? \u00a0This will bring out a few tanks who had no reason to queue up anymore (no reward from heroics normally, typically from high gear levels), convince several hybrids that are capable of tanking to start trying their hand at tanking and possibly get several people to switch mains.<\/p>\n
Overall this will mean a higher population of tanks. \u00a0That most people seem to agree on as the rewards offered in the goodie bag are fairly well accepted as good rewards. \u00a0What type of tanks? \u00a0Well, there will be the high geared tanks (which everyone wants to start queuing more often), the medium geared tanks (which most people will accept) and the ungeared tanks (previous DPS or new which no one wants). \u00a0Skill levels will naturally be varied as well – obviously those with more time spent as tanks (and probably more gear) will be the best received. \u00a0There will be completely clueless people joining up as tanks, possibly will full DPS gear and a shield. \u00a0Several people are really concerned about that.<\/p>\n
But, in the end, this will increase the tank population. \u00a0Bad \/ rerolled \/ DPS tanks will either stick with it, get better and get more gear, or they’ll quit out. \u00a0Old tanks that are interested in the rewards will probably be in it for the long haul as the rewards that most want (pets and rare mounts) will take a while to achieve (as anyone who has done Baron Mount Runs can attest). \u00a0Why will they take a while? \u00a0Because low drop rates (sub 1%) combined with 40 minutes per run will result in a very low chance of the Called role to actually get the rarest mounts. \u00a0It merely provides a means of which for them to access it a little faster than usual (instant queue versus travelling around the world to specific dungeons and farming).<\/p>\n
So the queues for DPS will likely decrease from this change. \u00a0How much? \u00a0No one really can say but if the rewards are enough (which for me I know I like the rewards) then it will generate more people in the dungeon queue. \u00a0Overall that’s a pretty win-win situation. \u00a0Naturally DPS is a bit left in the dust when it comes to the rewards but at least the reward here is shorter queue times. \u00a0For all the complaining, this is a step forward for Blizzard in an attempt to figure out ways to bring more tanks to the table. \u00a0Maybe not the best, but definitely a step.<\/p>\n
~ Setta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dungeon Finder: \u00a0Call To Arms (4.1) So, I’ve been reading a lot of comments and posts about the new Dungeon Finder: Call To Arms that blizzard is planning on introducing in patch 4.1 \u00a0(Source). \u00a0There’s been a lot of drama over the decision though the patch isn’t even out yet. \u00a0Let’s go over some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[17],"tags":[51,38,46,48,11,49,55,56,7,50,53,45,47,52,54],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ftc-guild.com\/Main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}