I admit, this worries me a bit from a tenuous-tank-balance standpoint. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about tanks can comment on this post and enlighten me, but I remember this kind of aura changing up what tanks were good in Sunwell, favoring HP-based tanks over avoidance-based tanks.
Update: Kal, who blogs about tanks at WoWThinkTank, commented on this at:
ThinkTank: [General, Druid] Icewell radiance, bears, and you
His summary:
my conclusion is similar to yours: this should favor tanks with higher health/armor more. In some situation – for example, in a fight like Brutallus 2.0 where you could take 4 hits within 1.5 seconds that could kill a tank, tanks with higher avoidance will have a better chance of being ‘lucky’ and surviving (about 20% vs 10%) but it won’t change healing patterns; both tanks would have to be healed the same way, and it’s very likely that superior bear health will allow bears to take an additional hit where other tanks cannot.
His article is definitely worth clicking through and reading though, he goes into good detail. Thanks Kal!
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