A Tank Balance Megathread

[Isius]

Idk about your change, it kinda bugs me somehow to know I will get a dps decrease as a tank without a warrior doing it, but still also nerfs the war/drk combo dmg, making pld fit better in comps then it does nowt, so the change with Pld having slashing debuff might be better in the end.

Personally, I would still like to see RoH get a potency increase instead, and idk how I would feel about losing -10% strength down debuff either.

I rethought about what I said last night, and I want to say the first sentence I struggle to word it out, because it felt wrong to begin with, since I liked your read. Which you do have tons of good points. But if my math is right. I am going to say I am 100% against the idea of slashing debuff to be applied to RoH, and for Paladin to lose it's -10% strength dmg debuff.

Reasonings:

1. Caps Paladin potential dps down further then what it is now, even if my new combo, and the Pld's current rotation is basically the same dmg, but also prevents Pld from using it's most dmging combos if you want to keep the slashing debuff up 100% of the time.
2. For a class that can apply a slashing debuff, the only way to meet it's max dmg now is to have a Nin apply the slashing debuff instead.
3. Nin would then become a 100% stable to progression groups, why take a Pld? When a Nin loses less applying the slashing debuff, I think have not done numbers for it, but aswell beinging able to apply trick attack, still no reason to bring a Pld, but Nin would become mandatory, since it brings more dmg.
4. 3.2 Yoshi states raids will be more physical heavy. So by giving Warrior Pld's -10% str down to Storm's Eye, it would only make Wars mandatory for those raids, since the ease they can apply that debuff, and by that extent by reducing all that physical dmg, makes Drk to have a easier time to deal with that raid tier, and able to bring more dmg, since they are the mt dps class.

Sorry man but if you swap RoH, and SE debuffs around Pld will still lose out, and it will only make it worst, since we are losing the one tool that might actually benefit in the next raids, our -10% strength down debuff. But if Pld had the slashing debuff Pld, and is the only class in a group that can apply, it's dps will be gimped, and only isn't gimped, if a Nin is brought into a group. But that doesn't matter either since you will likely see Drk/War/Nin mandatory in the next raid tier from the RoH/SE debuff swap. Paladin in my mind still loses it's place in the raid scene again.

Buffing RoH's potency, or it's dmg overall is a far better, easier solution imo for Pld. Then trying to give Pld a raid dps buff utility.