You certainly sound hostile for someone claiming to merely want to have a discussion. Perhaps this is because he's responding to a resident of this community whose posts have the stank of sandy-vagina sydrome? He's not the hostile one. Go back and read your first post in this thread brother. Magici...

Have you ever stopped to ponder whether it might be that you as a non-tank archetype are underestimating the value of rote baseline mitigation and the resultant steady and predictable incoming damage? The tanking community figured this out almost a decade ago as well as prominent members of the heal...

Enkel, You indicated that you have done some work parsing as well as have looked over mine. You indicate varying results in certain situations. Would you be willing to share that with us so we can look at it together? Point 2: You are correct, you have never seen me in action and do not know my skil...

Feeding the trolls? You guys started this thread, not me. You guys were the ones bad-mouthing in this thread, not me. As an aside, why is everyone suddenly bringing up their educational pedigree? Is that relevant to this discussion? If you want to compare irrelevant levels of education I'd be happy ...

SK during epic? I will agree with you. SK during leech? Again I will agree with you (albeit very short duration) Putting VoD up with both of the aforementioned - again I will agree with you. Once those are down? Without epic/leech? Yes I'd wager that you actually can even as mages provide your pet c...

I keep seeing people mentioning 'bad data'. How is data in the raw bad? With each post and parse I freely comment on the limitations of that parse, always in defense of the pets when it was due. Raw data is neither 'good' nor 'bad'. It's simply true. The nuts and bolts and what you might consider go...

IF changes are coming (and I'd bet on it), it's because the changes were needed. Manning is so tight at EQ headquarters these days that they often rely on members of the community to provide data and feedback. This is nothing new. Select members of the EQ community (not me) have been tasked with and...

Yes, the pet is part of the mage, and that part of the mage should not so easily out-class a dedicated player tank under any circumstances. I don't care if it's a single pull or an ideal group or the perfect situation ... "PART" of a ranged caster dps class should not outperform a dedicate...

Unfortunately, the bigger problem hers is that you guys (the collective you) don't seem to have a good understanding about the nature of tanking, the relative danger, and the importance of DI spread. This is not a new discussion or debate in the tanking community, it has been well hashed out multipl...

Option B was already chosen by the Mage community.