as stated above every single expansion prot warriors pretty much get shafted
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Prot Warriors were king in S1 of Dragonflight.
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For very few weeks
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At the level you play at, and likely the OP, class is literally irrelevant.
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I don’t have beta and am otherwise excited for Thane prot.
What’s the core flaw with prot beyond the usual complaints of lack of utility?
This is actually false, if you check the season 1 stats it shows overwhelmingly prot paladins were the meta tank of season 1 dragonflight. Cease spreading this lie and slander going forward. It’s awkward and offputting, to say the least.
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Prot war was indeed the better tank weeks 1-4, they just didn’t scale as well into the late season. Block was reducing a significant amount of damage in lower keys at appropriate Ilvl.
Pulling the whole season skews to the later half after tuning passes and gear upgrades.
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? Who is looking at the first few weeks of a season. The amount of prot palas that received the title for season 1 is staggering compared to prot warrs.
Once again, as I told that other individual, cease spreading these lies to unsuspecting and ignorant individuals. Prot warr has not been meta tank since bfa.
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As soon as you quit acting as if prot warrior has trouble completing anything outside of the absolute upper most content that only 5% at best participates in.
I mean, by the tone and response, clearly every tank but VDH isn’t meta lol.
I dunno, I think all prot war needs a better displacement effect and for the aoe silence to be a little less costly to pick up in the tree. That would do a ton to solve issues I have personally.
Having a shorter aoe taunt would be beneficial too, because charge/thunderclap/sidearm is not sufficient threat gen on a pull compared to something like keg smash, or sigil of flames/infernal leap, and immolation aura in practically 1 global on the mobs.
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Well it’s an AoE interrupt not a silence. One it should be a silence though so you can just pop it and force all the casters too you. Should have a bigger range and be part of anger management. Would solve a number of issues there
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Class is never irrelevant. There are so many ways other tanks can carry and make up for mistakes your party can make.
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We’re really not that bad right now . I take way less damage than my equally geared guardian Druid . The problem is , we don’t bring much for utility other than a few shouts and a stun . We need something else to make us attractive to the masses besides this nice looking armor .
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Could also use more talent points in the class/spec trees. We need to have a bunch of talents merged/reduced to 1 points instead of 2.
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It’s been a minute since I played prot. But is it fair to say that Prot is rarely the best, but usually they can get the job done?
Outside of the world first race and the upper most keys where less than 5% of the playerbase plays, you can literally play any class and spec. Please quit blaming the class for your shortcomings. How did I know you’d have grey and green parses…
It is not slander. I resent that.
Honestly it really depends on the content that we are doing and how well the player knows whats coming, i play both warrior and dk and let me tell you it is INFINITLY easyer to tank on a dk then a warrior for a few reasons.
One we have good magic defence like i get that we are FINALLY get something to help with magic next xpax even if it is just a 5% reduction but seriously the fact that it’s taken this long for us to get any form of love to get magic protection after the devs promised to not go overboard on the magic damage which they lied about again we needed something anything to help us will the 5% make a big differance who knows but it’s something i still would like a chance to just block spells with our shields but oh no can’t have that the pallys have that.
I know we have spell reflect but even that has been nerfed because we don’t even really reflect stuff in PvE anymore because it’s to op acording to blizz.
Even our ignore pain is much worse off now then it used to be and you gotta abuse that button like no tomorrow because if we can’t block it we get chunked by it but as long as we have rage we will be fine but with the rage slow down that the devs are hell bent on giving us who knows how that will go.
Meanwhile on the dk you get bone shield which is just a good spell which has changes and as long as we just use one of the abilitys to gen them every few spells we will be fine a way to just heal back up a massive chunk of damage we take which makes the healers cry and the ability to just say screw you i’m not dieing as a passive yeah DK’s just win oh and not to mention 2 forms of magic protection on in the form of a shell for yourself then the bubble for you and your fellow tank while still having 2 more defenceive cooldowns and a battle rez on top of that.
It’s a night and day differance while i love my warrior yeah it would go dk in a heartbeat if i had to do tanking again because i know at least with that i’m not going to get screwed over by the devs again because they just seem to hate us.
As a long time blood main, I agree with most of what you said.
In the next xpac, it is even worse imo. Why bring prot, when blood or VDH exist… more utility and damage. >_<
Here’s hoping more changes are on the way.
This does NOT mean class is irrelevant.
It means blizzard didn’t fail at balancing the game. But there are still specs that stand above the rest.