Interesting conversations after being gone a while.. guess I need to look for a more consolidated list of changes. I was never a fan of the dps tank meta, personally. I switched to DRG for HW after being War main for ARR because, if I was going to gear for strength, I figured I might as well do it on an actual strength class. As a result I fell behind on optimizing war for damage (rotation-wise), even though I eventually fell in to the meta and rocked full str until they nerfed it. - I just refused to raid on war unless it was with a group of friends lol

To a certain extent I think the changes in strength tanking meta really divided the community, it looks like some of these changes are clearly meant to help roll that back and define a proper formula for tanking in this game specifically. I think perhaps they were trying to offer too much to players, which is really great on one hand because of the freedom of choice, but also leaves a murky area of how the role is supposed to be played exactly.

Like Reynhart, I do enjoy the actual role of tanking, not just on war but also pld (I never really got that good at drk for some reason). It's not about the damage output, it's about being the leader of a party and directing them towards victory, so to speak. And I'm not denying the value of increased tank dps, certainly there is merit to the argument. I'm just saying it was never really the play style I enjoyed.

Anyways, just my 2 pennies. I was half leaning towards switching back to War for this expansion, guess we'll just have to see how it all plays out.