Tank homogenization

[Subrias]

Paladins couldn't even taunt for a long while. Bosses like Illidan were nearly functionally impossible for any Tank but a Warrior because of Shear and how Crushing Blows worked at the time.

Paladin taunt came in bc. Also.. paladins had 99.9% uptime on 102.4% avoidance.. they didn't even have to pay attention to shear because it would have had to line up perfectly with their holy shield CD in order to have not blocked it. One of librams made your shield block chance super high and unlike warrior it lasted a number of blocks that illidan couldn't make go away on his own.

[Bright-Flower]

Paladin taunt came in bc. Also.. paladins had 99.9% uptime on 102.4% avoidance.. they didn't even have to pay attention to shear because it would have had to line up perfectly with their holy shield CD in order to have not blocked it. One of librams made your shield block chance super high and unlike warrior it lasted a number of blocks that illidan couldn't make go away on his own.

This is anecdotal and has no bearing on any of the raids beyond Kharazhan, but in bc I played a prot paladin. Mostly for RP but when I was asked to off tank I started doing Kara. On the last boss, there was a point where the boss would attack quickly and could get crushing blows (I think that's what it was called?) on our warrior main tank so they had me start tanking him with holy shield.

It was fun but we never really managed to break out of Kara and make much progress in ZA other than killing the bear boss.

[Subrias]

This is anecdotal and has no bearing on any of the raids beyond Kharazhan, but in bc I played a prot paladin. Mostly for RP but when I was asked to off tank I started doing Kara. On the last boss, there was a point where the boss would attack quickly and could get crushing blows (I think that's what it was called?) on our warrior main tank so they had me start tanking him with holy shield.

It was fun but we never really managed to break out of Kara and make much progress in ZA other than killing the bear boss.

He specifically said illidan, I told him he was wrong and that it was actually easier for a paladin to tank illidan. I main tanked everything in bc as a prot paladin except for kael thas in tk, archimonde in hyjal, and alar because well.. bubbletanking all the adds was just lol..