Crushing blows (mostly) removed in Wrath as raiding changes

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7-31-2008 @ 4:26PM

Braundo said...

From what I've seen, Paladins are on the whole quite enthused about this, I don't know what you're talking about. Reaching uncrushable status isn't as trivial to us as it is for warriors.

7-31-2008 @ 4:30PM

Matthew Rossi said...

What this will mean for warriors is, with the new talent that generates rage on a block, we'll see block rating become more important as a threat gen stat (since blocks = rage = TPS) for warriors.

7-31-2008 @ 4:36PM

Braundo said...

@Matthew:

It's also looking like they're going to be reducing the amount of actual "+Block rating" stats on gear and instead just putting more Strength on tanking gear (since it appears that Str is now converting to BR at a much higher ratio now). Which means that Strength is becoming a more important tanking stat from both a mitigation and a TPS standpoint, I guess.

7-31-2008 @ 4:36PM

Braundo said...

@Me: Correction, I mean "+Block value", not Block Rating.

7-31-2008 @ 4:49PM

vlad said...

druid tanks may like this as well

7-31-2008 @ 7:17PM

Xerous said...

Warriors have always had a 5 pt talent grating 1 rage when blocking. They had it at 2 rage a couple builds ago but have once again made it 1 rage per block. No change there...

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