Putting this in EVERY forum

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First of all, let me just say i am not making an argument that BDKs should be meta or top tier in PvP.

However, some of these BDK PvP changes are alarming, and provide evidence that the devs are taking lazy coding shortcuts, and truely do not play their game.

Allow me to itterate.

Evidence of lazy coding: Frost and Unholy are being given Bloods Strangulate.
The devs are aware Frost/Unholy will overperform with Bloods 30yd range Strangulate.
So, they are nerfing Strangulate across the whole class to 15yards.
Lazy coding, hits Blood with a nerf.
Same thing with Aura radiuses.
Lazy coding hitting Blood with a aura radius nerf.

Now heres the really alarming part.
The Blood for Blood rework.
Someone at the conference table had the awareness that Blood for Blood is the worst talent in the game.
However, instead of deleting this talent, and just replacing it with the Transfusion talent…they have managed to rework Blood for Blood to be even worse, and they are deleting Transfusion rather than re-coding it into Blood where it belongs.

Lets dig into why this Blood for Blood rework needs to be addressed.
9.1 Blood for Blood: Passive: Heart Strike deals 60% more damage(about 18-20DPS), in exchange casting Heart Strike deals 3% of your max health in damage to yourself.(about 2200-2600 damage).
Now, right of the bat this is bad as you can see, however lets dig into why this is evidence that the devs dont play their game.

The ONLY way this left the conference table as a good idea, is if they are unaware that Death Strike is tuned to heal for 3% max health for Blood in PvP.
In otherwords a BDK has to spend 9% of its max health, inorder to heal for 3%.
This talent makes it mathematically impossible to not off yourself just by doing your basic rotation(I got Forum suspended for a month for pointing this out as a self harm reference).
And the devs arent even aware of what Death Strike is tuned to.

Again, im not saying BDK should be meta, or top tier relative to PvP.
But this has to be a joke.
Help put awareness on this please, BDK is in no position to receive PvP nerfs targeted at Frost/Unholy.
And Blood for Blood should be deleted forever, and replaced with Transfusion.

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No, tanks are bad for arena.

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Tbh stopped reading there

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Oh noooo!! Anyways, in other news, I saved a bunch of money by switching to Geico.

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BDK already isnt in Arena.
Its illogical to nerf it harder, and give it suicidal talent choices that offer no benefit.

Again, not making an argument that BDK should be meta or competitive.
Just saying that its already bad, and isnt in a position to receive lazy nerfs targeted at the other two specs buffs.
Nor is it in a position to receive toxic talent reworks that essentially tell us to go jump off a cliff.

The spec should be allowed to exist in random BGs, and WPvP.
Taking such casual things away from tank specs is obsurd and illogical.
They are the most crucial role in the game. You are already gating them from competitive PvP, there will be even less tanks in WoW if you gate them from casual PvP as well.
Especially in a xpac like SL that pretty much forces you into commiting to 1 spec.

The main point of this post is to point out lazy coding shortcuts being taken by the devs, and their lack of care, attention, or logic relative to their talent reworks.
BDK just happens to be the vessel containing this evidence.

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I would rather be stomped by any spec other than BDK. When BDK was meta in cata, those matches ranked among the worst I have ever played. Basically, BDK couldn’t be touched by any melee.

I mean, if you want BDK to be viable in RBGs… fine. Wrath was the only time tanks ‘worked’ in PvP.

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No tanks in pvp please

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Great, /endthread. Your other concerns can go to the other sub forums.

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:100: agree, same. Definitely. Tanks begone

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We all know thats a lie lol.

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Ain’t that the truth. I went with progressive.

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Such irrational, intentional toxicity from the Arena forums.
What a surprise.

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we already have tanks in arena, they r called druids and their HP bar just keeps going up and up and up!

some1 link the clip of that druid running into a wall and facetanking a turbo cleave

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toxic gameplay is worse than toxic responses

think of everyone that has to queue into a blood DK if it was ever anything other than dumpster tier and maybe youll understand why you’re getting such backlash

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-pvp tank player

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