I remember from TBC the Mage set having more armor on average for cloth gear. Be nice to have a set that was geared toward MFB tanks as all cloth sets are geared toward DPS or Healing even on Ascension last I checked.
First off, I absolutely love the direction you're heading with both iterations for your vision of warrior tanking. 5 stars mate! I'd like to add my own opinions to the mix as well because I too love the numbers and the thematic approach to warrior tanking. I feel like quite often the class fantasy of just being a certain style of something, is snuffed out a bit with Ascension's vision of homogenization across all classes. Quite often it becomes a requirement to spec into paladin or rogue like talents or abilities just to stay relevant. And while I understand the design philosophy just like you were saying, I still am saddened that the thematical approach I desired just can't compete. 1) I am a big fan of the Damage Shield Talent and wish it could become an addon to a set bonus. Maybe something like "Your damage shield now scales with 40% of your block value and every 5th proc causes a small aoe aftershock around your character. (Also a selfish wish here would be to also update the Blunt Force Trauma epic RE to not only affect one target at a time. Or at the very least not have the bleed fall off of the first target the moment you tab off.) 2) I love how my parry tank scales very hard with Strength Rating. There's a clear cut talent telling you that 25% of your strength becomes parry. I would like to see something similar for Block Rating. I know that block value scales slightly with strength rating. But that value is very low and not known to many players. The pros of dodge/parry like you were saying is that they fully ignore an attack when they trigger. However they are prone to diminishing returns, where block is not. You're stuck behind however much value you absorb. That being said, I don't see it being terrible to raise the bonus to block value from strength or other sources a bit more. Absorbing 2500+ damage is great on just about every hit, but it's not going to always save you type of thing. 3) I would love to see more aoe potential for warrior abilities. I love my Blademaster tank being able to cleave devastate to all targets. Its strange to me that the block versions of warrior tanks don't really have any way to make devastate, shield slam, or even heroic strike to hit multiple targets all the time. (Yes I know sweeping strikes exist) Maybe even add in the one effect from retail that Thunderclap applies Rend to all targets hit (requires defensive stance). You could easily add in aoe potential into one of the set bonuses. Take everything I said with a grain of salt. Just throwing my own flavor into the mix and hopefully you all like at least some of the suggestions. It's awesome that you're able to talk to the top GMs and they actually listen to the community. :)
Another top video. I do agree with you that specifically Tank gear needs to be looked at sooner than later. May I add that the tank gear found in game so far is basically plate, or leather. Would it be wise or sensible to have tank gear of all armor types ? I know mail armor seems to have nothing for tanks, and the cloth armor is lacking too. If we are to have the ultimate plate for blocky tanks, shouldn't we also do it for all types? I don't honestly I don't have enough experience with tanking, especially with all the weird and wonderful stuff on ascension, but I did try to make a MFB and it was sad lol. Thanks again for your time and insight. This really is the best ascension channel . 🤘
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I remember from TBC the Mage set having more armor on average for cloth gear. Be nice to have a set that was geared toward MFB tanks as all cloth sets are geared toward DPS or Healing even on Ascension last I checked.
First off, I absolutely love the direction you're heading with both iterations for your vision of warrior tanking. 5 stars mate!
I'd like to add my own opinions to the mix as well because I too love the numbers and the thematic approach to warrior tanking. I feel like quite often the class fantasy of just being a certain style of something, is snuffed out a bit with Ascension's vision of homogenization across all classes. Quite often it becomes a requirement to spec into paladin or rogue like talents or abilities just to stay relevant. And while I understand the design philosophy just like you were saying, I still am saddened that the thematical approach I desired just can't compete.
1) I am a big fan of the Damage Shield Talent and wish it could become an addon to a set bonus. Maybe something like "Your damage shield now scales with 40% of your block value and every 5th proc causes a small aoe aftershock around your character. (Also a selfish wish here would be to also update the Blunt Force Trauma epic RE to not only affect one target at a time. Or at the very least not have the bleed fall off of the first target the moment you tab off.)
2) I love how my parry tank scales very hard with Strength Rating. There's a clear cut talent telling you that 25% of your strength becomes parry. I would like to see something similar for Block Rating. I know that block value scales slightly with strength rating. But that value is very low and not known to many players. The pros of dodge/parry like you were saying is that they fully ignore an attack when they trigger. However they are prone to diminishing returns, where block is not. You're stuck behind however much value you absorb. That being said, I don't see it being terrible to raise the bonus to block value from strength or other sources a bit more. Absorbing 2500+ damage is great on just about every hit, but it's not going to always save you type of thing.
3) I would love to see more aoe potential for warrior abilities. I love my Blademaster tank being able to cleave devastate to all targets. Its strange to me that the block versions of warrior tanks don't really have any way to make devastate, shield slam, or even heroic strike to hit multiple targets all the time. (Yes I know sweeping strikes exist) Maybe even add in the one effect from retail that Thunderclap applies Rend to all targets hit (requires defensive stance). You could easily add in aoe potential into one of the set bonuses.
Take everything I said with a grain of salt. Just throwing my own flavor into the mix and hopefully you all like at least some of the suggestions. It's awesome that you're able to talk to the top GMs and they actually listen to the community. :)
Another top video. I do agree with you that specifically Tank gear needs to be looked at sooner than later. May I add that the tank gear found in game so far is basically plate, or leather. Would it be wise or sensible to have tank gear of all armor types ? I know mail armor seems to have nothing for tanks, and the cloth armor is lacking too. If we are to have the ultimate plate for blocky tanks, shouldn't we also do it for all types? I don't honestly I don't have enough experience with tanking, especially with all the weird and wonderful stuff on ascension, but I did try to make a MFB and it was sad lol. Thanks again for your time and insight. This really is the best ascension channel . 🤘
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Grey is reaching out to ppl for input on this topic already? Figured we wouldn't hear from him until March at the earliest lol
is it the edit thing at 3:27 to 3:32 ?
Not quite haha its a little further into the video
make bears great again. and the Armor cap is 35880 (Homie)
They reduced it to 32.5k kekw. FeelsBadge
@@DrydekTV What did they change Armor cap?
@@skovlykke1000 im not sure exactly but at 32.5k i have 75% mit and more armor does nothing to that