Yes, this is exactly the post about Ppal being good, it’s not about garbage gap between meta and the others.
It was only for 3 seasons!
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If you raise baseline mitigation, it no longer needs to be able to heal for its entire health meter repeatedly with death strike. You can then move death strike to being more of an absorb shield similar to ignore pain.
Nerfing the self healing ALONE would kill it yes, but you ignored the first part of that statement entirely. Good grief.
I’m sorry.
There has never been a stance where Blood DK wasn’t good at least that the forums weren’t malding and seething until it gets nerfed.
Like season 3 shadowlands tier.
You have to rework the entirety of Blood DK to make this work, though.
The spec is quite literally designed to mitigate stuff by healing through almost-lethal damage. The spec’s entire toolkit is designed to do this.
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That’s a small part of why people play something else, and an age old used and dried up excuse. Far more players swap classes and specs because of balancing, community perceived and real performance related issues than they do because “I don’t like mages”.
There is a reason early in the season prot warrior was the top used tank, and why now that is slowly shifting in favour of prot paladin, and why in M12+ already in just a few small weeks that prot paladin has gone and surpassed prot warrior as the top used tank in 39% of all keys.
And it is the same reason why resto shaman has dropped from almost 80% of all M12+ keys down to 60%. And the same reason why we see many classes just not being played much, or why sometimes we see a resurgence in some classes as the season goes on, performance and balancing.
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Obsessing over representation in M+12 keys is so silly. It represents like 0.0000001% of the players who do M+.
It is irrelevant to everyone not doing those levels, which is almost everyone.
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Prot Pally isnt overperfoming. Hammer of Light is just OP as all get out.
Same with healers. People realize damage mitigation/absorbs are king, so disc priest and resto shaman are the only healers people take.
Yet, it’s completely relevant.
Top two used tanks in ALL keys, warrior and paladin, least used, monk, and from all stats we have:
- M2-3: Warrior and paladin
- M4-6: Warrior and paladin
- M7-9: Warrior and paladin
- M10-11: Warrior and paladin
It’s not just M12, it’s ALL key levels. Once a class is found to be OP it flows down through the key levels, players choose that class because it’s OP, easier, has a community perception about being strong and gets you into more keys.
And it’s the same on the flip side, across all key levels monk is the least used tank of them all, it’s the same issue, a weak tank is perceived to be not good by the community, is not invited to keys, and is rarely played.
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its a pve game. i didnt think they should have nerfed vdh. right now prot paly is a nightmare to heal unless its played very well. and guess what the average to above average player doesnt do? you guessed it: play well.
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All the other tanks can easily handle the lower level stuff, and even up to 10s with a decent group!
Do you think this community is going to care about that?
They can do M10 or lower, maybe not easily for some people and certainly easier on some classes. And that’s part of the problem that 1-2 tanks are superior to the rest, people see all the top runs with those tanks, so they roll it for low keys because why not, if people can run with something that makes your runs easier at all levels they will.
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This is the worst M+ season I’ve ever played. I uninstalled yesterday and I recommend anyone who doesn’t want to deal with entitled DPS and super imbalanced metas to do the same. Disc priest is extremely overpowered and there is no reason to bring any other healer. I honestly believe Disc Priest is more broken than the combat rogue bug that made them do triple damage from not needing to use spenders. The only way they fix this season is to remove Disc Priest from the game as well as Prot Paladins, Resto Shamans, Enhancement Shaman, Frost DK, and Aug Evoker and then reset the ladder.
This is going to happen about every season. One tank will be chosen to be above the rest.
M+ is supposed to be played with a group of players you know.
If you choose to PUG it, ALL the complaints will fall on deaf ears.
Blizz is on record about this. They don’t care if you have issues in PUGs. It isn’t designed to be PUGged, evidenced by all the whiners here having issues with PUGging.
Yet more evidence that those who follow the LIGHT > than you are. Makes me want to level up a pally and grab that sexy modern T2 armor set.
I mean, let them be above the rest , that’s not the problem, the problem is the difference between the top tank and the rest, especially underperformers.
This… 100% this, but people just don’t get it.