New tanking abilities in the expansion thread!

[Nama]

Something puzzles me...the topic is called "New tanking abilities in expanstion", yet a lot of post here talk about how they want old abilities to be changed.

This.

Too many traits are wasted on just making an ability slightly better. Traits are wasted on abilities unless it scaling/balance reason (aetherflow, dot lengths to make time for combos etc..) or is a cross class ability is getting a trait to make it better for its source class. Otherwise just change the core ability itself instead of giving it a bandaid when it hits a certain lv. Rather have traits add interesting passives or new things to abilities then something generic like shorter cooldown.

[Brannigan]

This.

Too many traits are wasted on just making an ability slightly better. Traits are wasted on abilities unless it scaling/balance reason (aetherflow, dot lengths to make time for combos etc..) or is a cross class ability is getting a trait to make it better for its source class. Otherwise just change the core ability itself instead of giving it a bandaid when it hits a certain lv. Rather have traits add interesting passives or new things to abilities then something generic like shorter cooldown.

Pretty much every paladin (and warrior) trait is like this. Like, would Rampart REALLY be too strong if it was 20% reduction at level 2 instead of 14? Is Awareness really worth extending to 25 seconds? Compared to stuff like Firestarter and River of Blood, our traits blow. A lot of classes have this problem, but it really sticks out on the tanks.