SK Race Choice

[greatdane]

Originally Posted by Keebz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No idea what you people are talking about with FSI for splitting. Splitting does not involve face tanking at all and if you're splitting blues 1) those mobs do not stun you and 2) taking an extra round of melee from a blue is a non-issue.

Splitting can often require facetanking briefly, depending on the nature of the pull. Not all pulls have enough space to start from max range. In indoor zones without SoW/jboots, you can't gain distance from mobs that are already on you--and in dungeons with many shaman mobs, most mobs will have SoW (and sometimes haste as well) if they've been up long enough for a split pull to be necessary. A failed FD in particular literally guarantees that you will be facetanking multiple mobs on the second attempt.

What do you mean, blue mobs don't stun you? Like 80% of mobs in the game have bash. Blue mobs absolutely can stun you. They might miss their bashes, but they might not.

In cases where you're split-pulling and don't have the space to do it without mobs reaching you at all, you're not taking one extra melee round from a blue. By definition, you're pulling more than one mob. If you get stunned, you're taking a minimum of two rounds (and possibly more if they're hasted) from each mob before you get off a second cast of FD. Like, that's just a mathematical fact. If you get bash-stunned in the first round, you will take at least one more round from every mob before it's mechanically possible for you to have cast FD again.

Not sure what people get out of inventing these completely imaginary scenarios where somehow bash never stuns regardless of race. It's self-evidently not true.