Block Tanking and Removal of Choice
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Hi all,
So I play a lot of Crimson Champion because I really love how it feels gameplay wise. It's a really solid tanking option and generally pretty easy to build around, at least I think so.However, the more I've played around with my build the more I've noticed that you can basically only be Protection Paladin or Protection Warrior with rather little in the way of ability diversity. A lot of this pigeon holing seems to come more from the talent capstones than the ME Crimson Champion. An especially good example is with stuff like the capstone in Prot Pally called Divinity (reduces Divine Protection CD when healed) . This is really good needless to say but it requires Righteous Fury to work which is where issues in choice start popping up. As most know, if I have Righteous Fury, I cant use Defensive Stance (unless you want to stance dance). This in turn means that a Prot Pally based block tank cannot use stuff like Spell Reflect, Damage Shield or the talent in the Prot Warrior tree called Shield Cover. I understand that there could be some balance stuff associated with removing the specific tank stance restrictions but I thought that this server was about freedom of choice. Plus the whole ability gem rarity thing already fixes a lot of that.
Additionally, this issue gets compounded when looking at the tier sets in the game. Right now, Hyjal's block tank set has a tier set bonus built around Shield Wall, which a Prot Pally based block tank literally cannot use as it requires defensive stance. So the Prot Pally block tank is stuck in the previous tier gear or with mythic non set bonus items.
Im not sure if I'm explaining the issue I'm seeing very well but it seems like the design team here is pitting one block build against the other, when really they should be mixed/mixable. It doesnt make sense to have these restrictions in place and have the same two playstyles compete against each other.
Is there anyone else who has seen this/feels this way or am I just asking to much?
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