Originally Posted by
Dragonwing
We are aware that that is the current stat priority, but the question is whether it SHOULD be. Blizzard has almost made plate tanking gear completely redundant, and frankly, when the supposedly lower-level dps/caster enchant is the best for tanks, and some of the retribution T14 pieces are better than the protection pieces for tanks, it is safe to say that Blizzard messed up somewhere along the way.
If you want to compare to hunters so much; there was a time where it was good to have some spell damage gear, as Arcane Shot scaled from that. It WAS a good stat for hunters, but the question was whether it SHOULD have been that way.