Shifting Perspectives: Why effective health needs to die, part 1
Every week (usually), Shifting Perspectives examines issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, we brace ourselves for the howling pack of tanks likely to descend upon us, but — as we have previously observed — we are used to staying at the top of someone’s hate list. If you’ve tanked at all over the course of Wrath, you’ve probably become familiar with the phrase “effective health.” It’s a concept that’s cropped up with increasing frequency on the tanking forums, and not necessarily in a good way. If you knew nothing of the idea beyond how players tend to use it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that “effective health” is the only metric by which all tanks are measured, and proof that Blizzard either can’t (or won’t) balance the game. There are very real differences between the tanking classes when it comes to average EH, and this has resulted in some angry discussion when the term is thrown around by players who either don’t really understand what it means, or
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