Quote Originally Posted by Miow View Post
I was able to tank/recon myself against the bosses in eda before the changes on my wf sorc, pretty sure you couldn't do that on a human or otherwise. WF have this great advantage period, to compare the healing of other races is dumb they don't even compare. You can however choose to play how you want, in the end you choose what is best for your play style.
that's nice. if i care about tanking, it's even relevant.

if i don't care about tanking, then it is not relevant at all. in situations where you have almost a TPK to recover from, kiting will work as well as tanking most of the time (and still allows you to get others on their feet as you kite), so tanking is not necessary for those. in situations where there isn't an almost total TPK... well, there's a lot more tanks in the game now than there used to be. i could decide to (try to) pull aggro with my sorc instead of leaving it to the tank just to show off my e-peen, but that doesn't make the character any better, it just makes the player a more useless idiot.

(on the other hand, i'm pretty much expecting that once the enhancement revamp hits, if the devs haven't changed the racial PrE that WF are getting... well, i expect to see plenty of WF caster tanks. but right now, the odds of your tank having the stats to take as little damage as a halfway-decent stalwart defender or defender of siberys are frankly very slim).

self-healing is great. the proposed sorcerer will have uninterruptible self-healing via the cleric past life feat, as well as non-emergency healing available through scrolls. i wouldn't recommend tanking horoth with it, but then, who cares. OP didn't ask for a self-healing tank, OP asked if a fleshy sorcerer would work for general questing and leveling up. the fact that said fleshy sorc also does just fine in raids (so long as you don't expect it to tank and self-heal for some unfathomable reason).