Garrosh and the new armour rules

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Now that armour doesn’t stack, many armour abilities have been buffed by quite a bit to compensate.

However, what is blizzard going to do about garrosh? Garrosh effectively nullifies any armour granting since his trait is already armour and yet blizzard hasn’t said anything about a buff for him.

Perhaps garrosh trait could be turned into an active so that it is not up all the time? That would be a neat solution that makes it more interactive too.

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Garrosh is going to be fine. It’s not like he was relying on stacking Armor in the first place.

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Considering that was basically his way of tanking, yes he does rely on it.

Granting other heroes armor that do not have innate armor does not make Garrosh weaker, Garrosh simply stretches out healing provided and makes it so that he gets far more value out of his armor over simply granting everyone else armor.

Like Uther is good when paired with a tank that doesn’t need much healing to keep up and can burst heal everyone else while giving them 25% armor making him good against dive or blowup comps.

Garrosh is also effective against dive comps because he completely destroys everyone’s plans if they get into melee range with him but he needs followup.

Uther has followup stuns.

Garrosh doesn’t need Uthers armor to be effective, Garrosh doesn’t need buffs because Uthers getting buffs.

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I think he doesn’t need one in the first, his trait can be powerful on paper when used right.

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Imo Garrosh will be fine. It’s not like there were a lot of ways to increase significantly his armor. He’ll do fine and we’ll be even better in teams which doesn’t give him armor.

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Hearthstone heroes be like. :crazy_face:

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Considering he still has his Trait, he doesn’t. Stacking Armor was just a circumstantial bonus depending on the team composition.

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I meant his scaling armor, not multiple armor sources

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Then why did you object to my initial reply? I guess you misunderstood.

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So another generalist tank like garrosh becomes situational now, it won’t be optimal with e.g. brightwing, morales, uther and other armour granting supports/heroes.

The pool of generalist main tanks is already so small (and diablo and malganis are banned every game)

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