Originally Posted by
Nairobi
Strawmanning people by comparing to previous expansions is a terrible argument. It last literally no bearing on this discussion, and contributes nothing.
Further, nobody has claimed that it will prevent us from tanking normal raid content. Our complaint is that our niche as a moderate damage, non-trivial healing tank is now reduced. We keep our moderate (not poor, as you seem to think/experience) damage, and our utility, but we lost our raid/self healing component to a degree.
CM's are now noticeably more difficult, seeing as how the crux of every CM when going for gold is large pull/add management. We were a good option for this, as our previous self healing allowed healers to dps and shave those seconds. Now, we require babysitting, making pala's far less desirable. Are they still doable? Sure. Are we ideal? No, but we never were. This just widens the gap between us and DKs.