Which plate class is looking best for SL?

Mainly in terms of pve fun (subjective I know).

I’m mainly interested in warrior and death knight. How are those two looking?

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Hi There! I’m in the process of rerolling for shadowlands and have been looking at plate classes too. Most of my opinion is biased towards tanking, Admittedly.

All 3 Specializations of Death Knight are looking pretty darn good.
Frost’s return to 2 handing is very welcome and still retains one of my favorite abilities in WoW, Breath of Sindragosa. Unholy DK got many comfort and “feel” changes to better empower the feeling of being a Necromancer, and Blood has received quite an interesting change with making Rune Tap baseline. But I still don’t like the existence of EZ PICK talents like Ossuary.

All in all, DK seems like a fun choice with a lot to sink your teeth in to.

On the Other Hand, Warrior is also looking really nice.
I’ve been following the Arms redesign very closely, and I personally really like it’s new design, with a fun mastery and stacking multiple damage multipliers on a Target.

Fury remains mostly the same as BFA, But with some significant talent changes that provide several choices on how you want your class to “feel”. Plus reckless abandon is an awesome new talent that essentially gives Metamorphosis to Fury warrior. Carnage is also being removed, So you won’t have every other GCD being Rampage anymore. This may affect your enjoyment

And Finally there is prot Warrior. Which has received many changes, some of which are controversial.
Overall I’m incredibly happy with Prot Warrior in its most recent pass. Its talent tree has many awesome choices that all seem reasonably competitive. Prot Warrior also has the Monopoly on a huge number of tanking cooldowns, and can talent into even more.

However, If you were SUPER attached to the play style of Stacking Avatar, Unstoppable force, and Bastion of Might. I regret to inform you that this Heavy AOE style of playing Prot is now much much much weaker.

(Addendum. I won’t speak on Paladin because it’s not my choice, But as far as I know it’s staying mostly the same, along with the addition of Holy Power on every specialization. Thus making Word of Glory baseline for Holy and Prot.

Maybe you’ll like this if you enjoy holy power. But that’s really all I know)

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Great post! Thank you.

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You can never go wrong with Warrior.

Arms damage is being moved from passive bleeds to our abilities once again. From what I’ve seen it still plays somewhat the same and will be a bit slower than BFA’s counterpart because of corruption going away but it balances out.

Fury as the poster above said is essentially the same thing the only difference being a slight nerf to self-healing but nothing too big, from the little time I spent on the PTR it wasn’t even needed with the meaty hits I was tossing out on people in BGs. They couldn’t really react fast enough. Onslaught is a pretty awesome talent that does nice damage every once and a while when you can weave it in (usually after Rampage was the most comfortable for me).

Though most of what I’ve said changes with tuning, regarding the playstyle it is still very fun. I also want to note this is more from a PvP outlook, I can’t speak for PvE.

I really need to try that talent on the PTR, sounds fun. :smiley:

It makes your Bloodthirst Cleave and empower your super fast Auto attacks, and Makes Raging blow hit like a Train.
Since it also causes you to generate rage on activation, as well as increasing your rage generation. It practically guarantees that you will be Enraged for the entire duration of your DPS cooldown.

This allows for some pretty insane damage and rage generation, especially with abilities like Cruelty being added.

Other New talents like Seethe, Onslaught, and Frenzy all add some pretty legitimate choice in how you want your class to Feel when doing DPS.

I can’t speak for Damage output, or number tuning. But from a raw design standpoint, Fury seems incredibly well designed.

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If I were you i would main warrior and have dk as your alt only unholy because that’s what we have as close as a necromancer

Hi, I agree with the poster above me, who loves necromancy so much that he does it on the forums as well!

Warrior ended up being a great choice :+1: I hope this advice helps you, people from 2020.