Tank health = yo-yo

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@Vorken-kelthuzad

Shadowlands high M+ gameplay appeared as recommended, so I decided to click for the lolz.

I was astounded to see how little the healthbars were moving during high intensity moments

They may have outgeared it or maybe it was a later season. SL S1 tanks were so fragile that the meta was to kite.

@Linxy

Player health and creature damage has been increased by 25% at max level. Health consumable values have been adjusted to match new health values.

• Developers’ notes: In Curse of Ula’tek, we’ve decided to increase player health and enemy damage by 25% for max level players. We’ve made similar adjustments at the start of Midnight and also in early Dragonflight. Our intent is for damage to be less spiky and for healing gameplay to be more satisfying. When healing is too bursty, enemies have to be tuned to deal spiky damage which requires quick reactions to survive, and we feel that leads to unsatisfying and more stressful gameplay. While we are increasing overall creature damage with this change, we are hand tuning encounter abilities to deal appropriate damage alongside these changes to meet our goals. We’re also making adjustments to several healing and absorb spells for DPS and Tank specializations so that they retain their relative impact.

They always do this and say it’s to make things less bursty and it 100% never is what actually happens.

If you want things to be less bursty you can’t increase damage by the same amount as you increase health. You’d have to increase health and leave damage where it was and possibly reduce at least the higher-end healing values.

As far as the original topic goes, they need to re-design DKs and DHs if they don’t want their health to yo-yo. Blood shield should be changed to be more like ignore pain. DH could use a stagger like mechanic maybe converting some damage into a fire DoT and rather than cleansing it you counter some of it with your own self-healing.