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Originally Posted by Erumaron  2 minute Last Stand and Shield Wall have made my Warrior pretty sexy as a MT really. It saved us wipes a bajillion times while learning Kologarn. Do DKs still have an edge? - sure. Can a good tank of any class do the job (pretty much Blizzard's argument I'd imagine) - yep. I don't even care though as it's really not a competition in my guild. We put the people who are most effective for the fight in the role. I had a blast offtanking Ignis adds and I'd argue that Warriors fit that job the best anyway. Being able to run into the fire, stun the mob in place, and just keep moving until out of the fire while root is about to hit is $$.
Also, can Warriors still spell reflect Hodir's frost hits or did that not make it out of PTR? (didn't even think to try it but read it after the fight) |
Can't reflect them I'm pretty sure, but can AMS them. Ignis adds, how are warriors better than DKs? I can run a construct into a scorch from its spawn point in like 5secs(death grip) then ice chain it, run around the scorch, and just do circles not taking any dmg while it burns, and then just pull it to water without getting into melee after threat reset(taunt+DC+IT+IT+DC usually). Hell I could probably break them myself if I wanted as frost spec with frost strike/HB.
I've seen a warrior stun kite them, and it didn't really look any more efficient, not counting the time gained on death grips for movement, or the fact I can run through a scorch if I want to and take like 2k dmg.
That said, I agree with you, you can use any tank you want, and good players are still good players even on a class that's not as good. If you have the choice between Joe McRetard the DK and Ace JohnnyJohn the protadin, you probably want the protadin anyway. Especially on a lot of these fights that require the tank actually thinking. And warriors still retain their advantage of bringing free sunders, which is pretty nice because DPS are idiots when it comes to sunders/expose armor(at least ours are). And demo shout, I like when our Warrior tanks demo shout my shit.
