Well, we knew the times would be a changing with Cataclysm, but how much they’re going to change has been revealed, and it’s quite a lot all told. For warrior tanks, what are the big issues?
- Block will be heavily redesigned. There will be no more block value of any kind and all blocks will remove 30% of a blocked attack’s damage. Block rating will still improve your chance to block as it does now, but if you do block an attack, rather than the current system where you block (as an example) 2000 damage because you have a shield block value of 2000, you’ll block 30% of whatever the damage would have been. This means a gimmick block set won’t make you invulnerable to trash mobs, but also that block will be more useful against bosses who hit for 50k. (A boss who hits for 50k now would hit for 48k using our hypothetical block value. He’d hit for 35k with the new system, as 30% of 50k is 15k.) This also means that Shield Slam will need some other method of calculating its damage.
More changes after the break.
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