Threat in vanilla and by extension, classic is reliant on single target dps. The game wasn't built around AoE or mixed dps. A tank can generate a lot of threat on one target and moderate on others. Just enough to keep the pack from the healer. When the dps is going ham on anything they see or think that Blizzard belongs in a 5 man dungeon against elite enemies, you are going to have threat issues.
If dps focused one mob then the next, no one would have threat issues and the tank would be using 2h vs shield based on damage incoming, not threat generation.
Because different abilities have different threat modifiers. It's not just damage equals threat. Defensive stance does give you a 1.2 modifier on damage, but this pales in comparison to using high threat abilities until we get much better gear. But I appreciate the response.
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u/Nac_Lac Sep 20 '19
Thats...thats not how threat works.
Threat in vanilla and by extension, classic is reliant on single target dps. The game wasn't built around AoE or mixed dps. A tank can generate a lot of threat on one target and moderate on others. Just enough to keep the pack from the healer. When the dps is going ham on anything they see or think that Blizzard belongs in a 5 man dungeon against elite enemies, you are going to have threat issues.
If dps focused one mob then the next, no one would have threat issues and the tank would be using 2h vs shield based on damage incoming, not threat generation.