Basically, you can cycle it in instead of Ironfur when you know the majority of threatening damage intake will be magic. Most classes also now have a sort of manageable baseline mitigation for magic damage – DK shields have always eaten it, and they get Anti-Magic Shell, Demon Hunters get Empower Wards, Warriors have Ignore Pain and Spell Reflect, Monks now have magic Stagger built right in, and Paladins get it baked into Shield of the Righteous.ĭruids, currently, have the powerful Mark of Ursol, which reduces incoming magic damage with no cooldown, but a 45 rage cost. Everyone has talent selection to reduce and smooth damage intake further, or to take their characters in vastly different directions. Everyone has a strong active mitigation ability that prevents large amounts of physical damage, armor is pretty well balanced across the board, and for those classes with less, they get well-built compensatory mechanisms like Vengeance’s built-in flat 10% damage reduction. Tanks are, currently, really well designed around the standard fights that have been a staple of World of Warcraft for the past 13 years. So why is that? What has been going on in the game to lead to this? There can be strong cases made for nearly every tank spec, to be sure – but in the end, looking at the cutting edge, one thing seems to be a commonality – an orange, overly large health bar leading the charge against those world first kills. So it’s not really a secret at this point that Guardian Druids have, for most of Legion, been rated as the “best” tanks by progression raiders. Lately, the tank community has been a bit grouchy.

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