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[GM Fright]

Blizzard wrote:

Selfish players won't take survival talents. Pug players who don't interact with a regular group might not. But we think organized guilds will. This kind of situation happens already, and we think it will happen even more in Cataclysm: The raid wipes. The leader, or the officer, or the tacticians or whoever start looking through combat logs and parses to see what they can do better. Ah, the Resto shaman kept running out of mana. They start to look at why. Well, this one rogue and one dps warrior took a ton of damage that ended up wasting healer mana. Maybe they stood in the fire. Maybe they were too focused on dps and not on situational awareness. Maybe they skipped over a couple of talents that could have minimized damage. We don't expect every guild to post damage *taken* logs and tell their guys to fix those problems. But some will. (Source)

Hey, we do that. And we will likely do that even more for cata raids. Man up and spec properly.

[Bananashroom]

sounds gay.

[Abscynth]

Well I can't speak for other classes...but Blizzard has forced (Combat at least) Rogues to take damage reducing talents in order to move further down the tree - there is NO combat build that doesn't include buffs to either armor, self healing, or other utility type things.

Not sure if other specs/classes are forced to pick up non-DPS survival talents.

[Junkr]

Bananashroom wrote:

sounds gay.

[-Bellasaer-]

They need to...liek.. invent a place where you can record all of this damage taken stuff for encounters and post it in like...log form or something where you can post directly hyperlinks to it....,.,.,.

Am I right?

[Verjil]

Eax* wrote:

They need to...liek.. invent a place where you can record all of this damage taken stuff for encounters and post it in like...log form or something where you can post directly hyperlinks to it....,.,.,. Am I right?

It would never catch on...