Originally Posted by
Choice
In general, solo tanking won't be a huge factor this tier. There will be players who eventually push for it, and I'm sure you'll see some fights be solo tanked. But on the whole it's going to be a lot less potent due to bubble no longer clearing the debuffs like in t15.
As far as Thok goes, I'm not sure if the debuffs can be bubbled, but even if so you'd have issues doing the fight with just one tank. Firstly the breaths apply too frequently and hit too hard to really be doable without swaps, and secondly things would go pretty badly if your jailor tank got fixated and there was no second tank to taunt it.
On the whole, the gap shouldn't be as massive this time around. The class on the whole will likely be weaker, but no one really denies that the class needed to be brought down. DKs got some significant buffs, warriors got some minor ones and brewmaster's scaling got addressed.
The tier should be more balanced, or at least not so heavily favoring two classes.