Block Value shines!

[Thundercud]

I ran 25-man Ony on Tuesday as OT. I'm a prot warrior. For kicks I put on my BV set which sits at 3040 BV unbuffed. Tanking the whelps was ridiculously easy. My healer fell asleep and I never took any damage (slight exageration I admit) which was nice... The best part was when I checked Recount afterward... 3600 dps!! Fun fun fun.

Now I'm gonna have to see how high I can get my dps on that encounter. With a BV heavy setup I think you could easily tank all the welps maybe even using this for the "handle it" achievement. Anyone else tried this?

[Grob]

wow

save this set for Anub HC :P

[ichigosa]

i haven't really been paying attention but it did seem odd when i done a 13.8k shield slam into ony 25 eariler.

[RMJ]

Warriors are the new DK's remember to enjoy it as long as it lasts, the nerf hammer never feels good ;D

[Ozzy1346]

funziez

[Stubbÿman]

Warriors are the new DK's remember to enjoy it as long as it lasts, the nerf hammer never feels good ;D

Why nerf a class for using what block designed to do. Mitigate large hits and absorb small hits.

As far as full block value sets they're not going to get nerfed either because no Main tank is going to be going in a set with full block rating and value and MT a boss in a 25 man. The appropriate diminishing returns were already applied to block value and shield slam, 13k crits are just about as high as it gets.

[Doddilus]

You don't need a full block set to complete block all the incoming damage from the whelps. They hit like... well like whelps, for ~500 damage

Pallys can do this just as well as warriors, hardly making them FoTM tanks

[Marithas]

wow

save this set for Anub HC :P

didnt they fix this?

[Xianth]

didnt they fix this?

They buffed their damage but reduced the power of their debuff (eg. 225% at max stacks rather than 300%), so it remains to be seen if there's an overall increase. I'm not doing him till sunday so i don't know myself yet.

[Sullimo]

You don't need a full block set to complete block all the incoming damage from the whelps. They hit like... well like whelps, for ~500 damage

Pallys can do this just as well as warriors, hardly making them FoTM tanks

http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=58874

more block value = more damage from damage shield

[Astray]

Warriors are the new DK's remember to enjoy it as long as it lasts, the nerf hammer never feels good ;D

Theres a slight difference.

Before all the changes, Block was good in heroics and very bad in hardmodes.
Now, Block is okey in Hardmodes, and is awesome in heroics and fast-lowhitter-situations.

Since raidbosses are hard heavy hitters by design, which startet the whole crap, it wont give Warriors or Paladins great advantages when it really matters.

Fix amount versus percentage always leads to situations where fix values shines and suck. What the Block change gaves us was a bit more equality in raid tanking and paladins being the most awesome heroic tanks.