3.1 PLD changes look good

[ArdorGrey]

Why is it always people with warrior or marauder set as their main class in the forum who say this nonsense. People who you know, main the objectively dominant, best, most powerful tank class in the game, by a huge margin.

You know what people's expectations are? To be able to play Paladin in this game's terrible current raid without being a burden to your team. Paladin was "The dominant tank in the game" for a period of time of roughly a couple months and ended in 2.1 when Warrior was made an incredibly powerful class on its own right, making it just as necessary as Paladins for raids. Let 2.0 go. It was two years ago.

Are you joking? War wasn't even needed in half the content. And in the other half when a pld MT actually tried to push dps they could MT full time in SwO after voking off a War opener.

You're either completely ignorant of your own classes strength in 2.x, or you view that as "balance"- when your tank is the de facto MT and the other tank is either dropped for a fifth dps or is your opener and slash debuff/path boy. Either way, please get real. You had an entire xpac cycle in the sun. War shines for one patch and everyone wants to tear them back down to that eye/storm peon position.

If this is more "biggotted assumptive whatever and ever" please, educate me on where I'm biggotted and assumptive.

[NFaelivrin]

You're either completely ignorant of your own classes strength in 2.x, or you view that as "balance"- when your tank is the de facto MT and the other tank is either dropped for a fifth dps or is your opener and slash debuff/path boy. Either way, please get real. You had an entire xpac cycle in the sun. War shines for one patch and everyone wants to tear them back down to that eye/storm peon position.

People who think WAR didn't make a great MT in 2.X after it was fixed are hilariously wrong, I did T12 with WAR MT and there were absolutely no problems whatsoever because all of WARs defensive cooldowns have higher uptime than PLD's and are only marginally weaker. WAR could easily solo tank the, well, solotankeable turns of SCOB just as well as PLD, people just were very slow to notice just how good WAR was.

[Reynhart]

Are you joking? War wasn't even needed in half the content. And in the other half when a pld MT actually tried to push dps they could MT full time in SwO after voking off a War opener.

Now that the "WAR is not supposed to be MT" mentality is gone, you just have to do some tests.
Go in lvl50 synced at the lowest ilvl or, at least, gear available when the content was released, and I'm pretty sure you'll realize you can tank anything as good as a PLD.