Originally Posted by
metsla99
for physical damage tanking druid is vastly superior right now to prot pally.
druid tanks just take so much smaller damage - firstly from the extra armor provided by mastery passive and secondly, bear form extra 10% passive damage mitigation that is not listed under armor damage reduction.
example- winlord phase 2 melee hits, no cooldowns used, personal comparison:
prot pally - 190-200k normal hits, ~130-140k blocked
guardian druid - 110k normal hit, not to mention superior dodge chance that avoids alot more hits altogether.
This comparison shows druid's superior damage reduction on physical hits. damage on blocked hit is still bigger than normal hit taken by druid.
Example 2:
from the logs, longest fight: Try 3,duration- 8:11
damage taken by spell, melee hits:
Guardian Druid - normal hit- 38917.2 average damage
Prot pally - normal hit - 58938.4 average damage, blocked hit - 42634.8 average damage (block chance being static 30% this expansion, not that reliable for damage reduction).
Further proof that physical damage taken is significantly smaller for the druid. even blocked hits by paladin get more damage than average hit for druid.
In fact i doubt that all 3 combined- maximum SoTR uptime, 100% sacred shield uptime and 30% block chance would amount to less damage taken total (some prot pally can probably prove me wrong but i'm not that good anyways). Plus, druid passively mitigating that much more damage per hit, it makes for smaller damage spikes overall and easier to heal tank.
Prot pally 100k/5 sec sacred shield mentioned earlier is burned down in 1 melee hit from adds, and you have 5 of them + boss. it will help to mitigate total damage taken somewhat but not by a huge margin.
i am no mathlab specialist but from logs and personal experience it is absolutely clear that for physical damage or multi-target fights, Druid tanks are far superior.
and in this case, without that amount of DPS from the druid (vengance is silly-good for druid AOE), this raid would not have enough DPS to win the fight before enrage anyways.