Considering Blood DKs were the best tank in Cata and are slated to the best tank in MoP (Phase 1 at least) why is a class like Blood DKs getting buffed and not Prot Pallies that need the most love? It’s a genuine question. Like does Blizzards balance team live under a rock?
dk just got a decent nerf to their damage and a slight survivability buff
prot pala got some buffs already
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The damage reduction from Sanctuary has been raised to 20% (was 15%). New
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The shielding on Sacred Shield has been raised by 43%. 5.4 Revert
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I don’t think that DK will be the best tank for all of p1, not for prog anyway, they are good when damage is low (like msv) but they don’t scale defensively off of mastery like monk or prot pala so when damage is very high or spiky, they get deleted
I dunno. I saw the occasional prot pally tanking in Dragon Soul. Never once saw any raid groups bring a prot warrior.
What about bear tanks?
they’ve gotten a few buffs but I don’t understand enough about guardian to fully articulate how powerful they are
What was best and when then is it someone else’s time now thinking is flawed. Mostly because nothing is actually wrong with prot paladin. You could do all the content in the game with a prot paladin and once they hit certain haste levels are arguable better than other tanks in MOP. The problem is more a community one. People just ID a list of what is best and abandon all other specs.
Not sure if it counts as a “flaw” with prot pally or if DK is just op… but I’ve run a dk tank, a prot pally, and a prot war in DS, and the prot pal seems to have the absolute worst threat gen of the three. When co-tanking with a DK on my paladin, the DK would pretty much have to stop doing anything for me to keep aggro. If we both “hit all our buttons” the DK’s threat was 4-6 times mine. And yeah, his gear was a little bit better but not so much that i’d expect him to be far more than double my threat generation. It just got so frustrating to feel useless (on aoe pulls the dk would effortlessly take all the threat on all the mobs and I couldn’t even get one of them without taunting).
So, yeah, maybe there’s a flaw with prot insofar as it’s threat gen is a pale shadow of what a DK can do… and when raids are trying to rush things as fast as possible and do as much damage as possible, they’re going to take the tank that has a massive threat advantage.
What the class needs to feel right is a temp haste buff for at least the first phase. They have done stuff like this on like every DPS. Not to certain why they just don’t do it with prot paladin as well. The spec is insanely dependent on high levels of haste. Granted DK and monk are fairly OP when it comes to these things as well…
this spec is not #1
that means blizz hates them
I have to wonder where this crybully mentality comes from.
What was nerfed?
I have only read about dk outbreak buff and 2% overall damage reduction.
army, ghoul and runestrike all got damage nerfs
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I recently check it in reddit and these nerfs re kinda meh… By far dks will still top #1 tanks.
The high damage, threat, mitigation and self healing comes from 1 button named death strike. IMO any other change are just meaningless if death strike can do so much.
Blizzard did so much changes to balance the dps, hope to see the same for tanks.