Let me start out with a little something about my raid groups situation. We're a relatively successful 10 man 12 hour a week guild, currently 6/13h, aiming for 8 by the end of this coming raid week. Our dps excellent, with everyone consistently parsing in the top 10 for their class. We have an exceptional disc priest and resto druid that rank as well. Now we run in to our issue. Our third healer is a resto shaman, and our tanks are death knight and monk. No paladin.
Damn near every heroic this tier is one tankable if your raid has a hand of protection available. On top of being able to have an additional dps for most fights, the additional vengeance from single tanking makes that tanks damage and self healing beyond absurd. Not only that, but prot paladins are arguably the strongest tank, and holy paladins are the healing king right now.
While we're still killing bosses effectively, I can't help but feel a little bit crippled by not having a paladin. Hand of protection this tier is the most broken thing in PvE in recent memory.
I guess what I'm getting at is, does anyone else feel the same right now?