Welcome to Byron "Messiah" Mudry's new column at TenTonHammer. This new series of articles is a place for me to expand on some of what I feel is going on in the game in my favorite parts. Those parts being Tanking, Raiding, and some of the math behind the game. In this first article I look at the lack of CC and how tanking is almost all done with AoE now. Come listen in on my rant and see if you too feel that AoE has removed some of the skill, planning, and tactics from the game.

Over the course of the Wrath of the Lich King cycle all of the various forms of tanks have received buffs to the point of being very close to or on par with Paladin AoE tanking. While this has brought all forms of tanks back to a very close level in their usefulness in any situation it has also eroded much of the skill level required to play a tank well in all situations. It has also removed the need for CC almost completely from the game.

Read all about it in this first edition of Semi-Hardcore – The life of a not quite hardcore raiding tank.