This is mostly about some problems I have with the way pally tanks are set up right now. Don't get me wrong I absolutely love the position we're in and really don't want to get nerfed so this isn't about us being on a bad position class balance wise. This is about gear.
As many of you know, our best gear options is basically any piece of str plate without crit. I love having more gearing options even though I'm not thrilled with haste so good. This is a lot better than the previous models where it's "stack mastery and ignore the rest." That said, I have a few issues that I'd like to bring up.
1 - Haste gear isn't tagged for prot in LFR/world bosses/bonus rolls. This means that should I want to use my bonus roll on something like heroic Gara'jal (which hopefully we'll have down tonight or tomorrow) I'm only hoping for the boots. This is really frustrating since if I want either of those pieces I have to queue for LFR as ret (which I'm not very good with nor do I have gear for it) which introduces the problem of me getting gear with crit on it.
2 - I really don't want to take gear away from dps classes. I'm fine if our gear is intended to be the same and we're supposed to compete for gear but right now I just feel terrible for rolling on things like the hit/haste gloves from Elegon. This really only bothers me because it feels similar to the old warriors taking leather gear with ArP. I have access to a lot more gear than they do for tanking but because the haste is better I am ignoring gear that is "for me" in favour of gear that is "for them."
3 - Tier gear. Our 4p is incredibly good. This means we want to take sub-optimal gear in exchange for that 4p, which I feel is somewhat the intended design for set bonuses instead of "decide which four pieces you want because the 4p is that good all the time." That being said we are probably going to seriously look at the ret set bonuses every tier because if the 2p is good, we're more than likely to take that instead of our own 4p. Imagine something like, hitting CS or Judgement gives you some haste buff. That's something I'd take if ret gear was better than prot. Putting this into perspective, I want the ret gear more than the prot gear right now.
The complaining aside, I really do like having more compelling gear choices. My qualms mainly remains with not having the game support the value of haste to us.
Last thing I wanted to mention was looking at enchants. Tanking enchants are somewhat interesting this time around, and I do have some problems with them. I'm going to post what EJ says for prot pally enchants since it somewhat echos my own feelings:
Dancing Steel > River's Song >> Windsong >>> Colossus.
I hate Colossus just as much as the guys over at EJ do. Over the course of an entire Will of the Emperor fight I got a total of 250k absorbed. Sure that means it proced maybe 40+ times, but the shield size is awful. 7k shield just doesn't cut it. To put this into perspective, on will of the emperors, a single dodged or parried attack due to DS or RS will be the same. Sure you can't garuntee and the nature of avoidance from str-parry and dodge but it's more about hedging the bets against you than making a large difference.
The problem I have here is that the dps enchant is better than the tanking enchant. I'd be fine if it was some crazy secondary stat buff but it's a stat that means next to nothing for us. It increases dps (marginally since most of our ap comes from vengeance anyways) and gives us some parry.
Sure rivers song has an official twice the proc rate when compared to dancing steel so you'll have more uptime but there's two reasons that's not really relevant. First is that str-parry conversion doesn't suffer from DR. It's str to parry % not str to parry rating. Secondly the duration on DS is 12s, the duration on RS is only 7.
They are also not on the RPPM system as of yet, contrary to what you might read on the internet the blizzard post doesn't say anything but windsong and elemental blast or whatever are using the new system.
That's mostly what I had to rant about tonight, we've got gara sub 10%. Don't forgot to complain on the forums in a civilized manner, use theck and EJ for sources.
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