{"id":1169,"date":"2010-08-14T12:58:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T19:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2010-08-15T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-15T17:00:09","slug":"cataclysm-beta-warrior-stance-changes-and-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/cataclysm-beta-warrior-stance-changes-and-mastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cataclysm Beta: Warrior stance changes and mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beta build 12759 has arrived, and with it, a host of changes. Mastery<\/a> has finally been implemented. Some talents and abilities have been revamped. And our stances, long the defining mechanic differentiating a tanking warrior from a DPS warrior, have also seen significant alterations. <\/p>\n

How significant? For starters, armor penetration has been utterly removed from Battle Stance. Instead, it now simply grants a warrior an extra 5 percent damage dealt and 5 percent less damage taken. Defensive Stance grants 45 percent additional threat and -10 percent damage taken, with no damage dealt penalty, and Berserker Stance grants 10 percent damage dealt and no damage taken. In many ways, this is merely a way to make the stances all seem positive (much as how rested XP was changed from a penalty to XP when you didn’t rest to a bonus when you did), but it’s still nice to no longer take more damage than anyone else just because you decided to DPS as a warrior. Tanking without a damage penalty no other tank pays will just feel better.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Beta build 12759 has arrived, and with it, a host of changes. Mastery has finally been implemented. Some talents and abilities have been revamped. And our stances, long the defining mechanic differentiating a tanking warrior from a DPS warrior, have also seen significant alterations. How significant? For starters, armor penetration has been utterly removed from Battle Stance. Instead, it now simply grants a warrior an extra 5 percent damage dealt and 5 percent … Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,69,42,1069,1068,412],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-of-warcraft","tag-beta","tag-cataclysm","tag-changes","tag-mastery","tag-stance","tag-warrior","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t