I’m an adult and I couldn’t believe how stressed and irritated it made me to have a GAME hacked.

I recently got an iPhone. Can I use the iPhone app to reproduce the numbers that my current Authenticator gives? or is it either/or?

Also consider LifeLock for your real life.

I will concede that leveling as a tank or healer is slower, though I would not say more difficult. The added survivability would definitely make some things easier. The thing to remember though is that every class that can tank or heal also has a way to DPS, meaning they can DPS their way to level cap and then branch out into the alternatives.

As to being stressful? That is completely up to the player. I’ve seen DPS wig out because they were told they needed to put out more. The role isn’t inherently stressful, but a player can make it so. The same goes for tanking and healing. A player can have fun doing it or they can flip out over every little mistake. Granted, other players blaming a tank or healer can be a source of stress, ultimately causing people to avoid those roles, but that only happens it the tank/healer lets it stress them. /ignore is a wonderful thing.

The post was wrong to margainalise DPS and to that I apologise. However, the concept of rewarding tanks or healers is still something worth investigating (and has certainly sparked a lot of serious thought and debate).

For instance, I think there’s a good argument that leveling a tank or healer is certainly more time consuming than leveling a DPS class. Also, I think the roles are inherently more stressful. I know that’s a very controversial point but I believe there’s more pressure on the tank or healer to perform over the DPS. For example, if a group wipes, the tank or healer generally gets the blame rather than the DPS underperforming.

Anyway, some food for thought

Thanks for the excellent response!

that completely makes up for the stress level in heroics. In most heroics dps can slack off and still do well unless going after achievements, the tank cant do it quite as much (though they can to an extent depending on their gear).

in raids though, no one needs to be rewarded more than others. the stress to be top dps is almost as high as the stress caused by tanking (its not equal, but its pretty close).

(note – i didnt include healing since i have no experience healing in heroics or raids, only tanking and dpsing)

The whole new looking for dungeon thing is quite sharp. I only tried it this morning once with a BC random dungeon. It took about 1 second before it found a group for me and we were killing stuff. This may turn out to be one of the best changes Blizzard has made yet.

Glad to know there’s three of us of a mind, at least