Butcher's Block... worthless.

[Shurrikhan]

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It just feels silly that I can literally auto-attack half or more of the time and still hold threat. If it's hard to understand how that makes tanking less exciting for many, we have a very different idea of what tanking ought to feel like.

When I started tanking I was often an Ifrit axe vs. relic +1's. I most certainly did use Unchained for threat to deal with their CDs. And I enjoyed inching out what I can, knowing when I could mitigate (just as there are some times when you couldn't afford to flash because an RoH needed to go off before that relic+1's Full Thrust), and that my dps buffs were usable for my recovery via Inner Beast.

Moreover, if tanking was boring before and is still boring now, isn't that too a failure? Even when practically carrying a taunt-aura, we still can't mitigate all that much, and the current IB's 20% of 6 seconds is commonly worth less total damage--short of Coil--than the former IB self-heal. The IB does no more than give us what Paladin's passive damage-taken reduction, and neither do we feel close to healers who make up for that difference (Shield Oath to Defiance's healing-taken increase) when they no longer play into our mechanics. I don't wholly miss the coupling of Wrath and healing-taken, but it made us attentive, which then made the job more fun.

A lot of the changes seem to be for the better, sure, but the job does not feel as fun as it was (aside, most largely in my opinion, the fact that we can actually hold AoE threat effectively with Steel Cyclone, whereas we were pretty well capped around 3 enemies we could hold with single-target attacks before against a better geared BLM, etc).