The criticism was valid and valid sources were given in opposition to your claims. At which time you threw a tantrum and began calling other content creators noobs in a fit of childish rage. You went on to start calling people on the forum names and lost control of your emotions... Paladin tanks are a fringe spec that wont be taken to most raids. They have irrefutable issues to overcome like the lack of a taunt, low mana pool and limited ranged options for pulling. They rely heavily on consumable usage and require a lot of min/maxing to be functional. As a tank, you are far more reliant on the competence of your fellow players than with either a feral or a warrior. A lot of your threat comes from being hit and you struggle getting threat back AFTER you have lost it in comparison to the other two tanks. The spec is suboptimal. In regards to OP's question, this spec is NOT something that a casual player should attempt to main.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoNeither i care, nor i am offended at all.
Its how these debates are when you have to deal with those who willing to live in ignorance and therefore are here to spill false info , lies and throwing eggs and stones with unfair criticism.
Without them backing up their claims, therefore they request things that are nearly impossible , imposing cherry pick arguing debates.
A great example of how we know prot paladins are awful is that there are very few of them. The population of any given spec is correlated to the performance of that spec. The cumulative time and experience that millions of players have invested into the game would surmise that prot pallys are not good tanks. One outlier claiming the opposite is not a compelling counter argument. You have linked videos of taking this suboptimal spec and forcing it to work while being supported by a group of enablers. We acknowledge that this spec CAN work (which was never in question to begin with). It is not optimal and it is not worth playing for the majority of users. We have outlined our opposition to the spec and linked videos of creators who echo the same concerns that we do.
We look forward to monitoring your journey through Classic and hope you will keep us updated. I would be very interested in seeing you main tank in a progressive raid on the first few nights of MC. I would prefer an unedited video of your entire MC run, from the first pull to the last on your guilds first attempt in MC. Before you have trained your team to account for your own short-comings as a paladin tank. Videos like this will show us how valid this spec is in contrast to the other options available. We are only a few months way. You will be able to prove us wrong soon.... ..... ...... or not.
2000 IQg0bledyg00k wrote: ↑5 years agoNever making a single investment again until I 100% know it pays off.
TL:DRStfuppercut wrote: ↑5 years agoThey have irrefutable issues to overcome like the lack of a taunt, low mana pool and limited ranged options for pulling. They rely heavily on consumable usage and require a lot of min/maxing to be functional.
How does that explain the evidence which you ignored and you was disapproved already 3 pages backward ?
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1655&start=75
But i guess Psojed was right when he wrote there :Psojed wrote: ↑5 years agoSo, the "extreme minimum" to tank raid bosses is apparently a Flask, four Elixir-type consumables, 16 stamina food, full stack of Runes and Major mana potions. Care to explain @Stfuppercut how was killerduki able to tank raid bosses in his videos NOT using all these listed consumables? For example his Magmadar video, where he's using a single elixir from the list, no flask, no other consumables, no potion, no dark rune.
@Stfuppercut i know you are great with good English writing skills to re write what you been disapproved for thousand of times.
You are repeating again the same "Huge Creative Wall of Text" filled with lies and false information , so heading all around and re explaining to you again and again something you are going to ignore (And then repeating the same own Huge Creative Wall of Text) , with my poor English is just wasting my time .
I'd rather let people re read the previous Pages and see how your lies are repeating all over again all the time.
Not going to waste my time Quoting with answers toward every single bit of your "wall of text" false information.
/Wisdom is Priority
/Activity is Skill
/Skill is Life
/Justice will prevails
/Activity is Skill
/Skill is Life
/Justice will prevails
"Huge Creative Wall of Text"? You mean your last post from Page 6?killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoYou are repeating again the same "Huge Creative Wall of Text" filled with lies and false information , so heading all around and re explaining to you again and again something you are going to ignore (And then repeating the same own Huge Creative Wall of Text)
And what about the solid debunking of your claims of Pre-raid BiS blue gear from Page 5 that you completely ignored and avoided?
You are on an English forum speaking in English. It is your choice to be here, and it is not any of our responsibilities to take it easier on you for not being as fluent as other members. It could, however, be your choice to leave and join a forum that shares your native tongue if you feel it would allow your ideas to be shared properly.
Insisting on being present in an English forum where you believe yourself to be at a disadvantage and whine about it just reeks of a desire to be seen and known by the English-speaking WoW community which is likely much larger than your own with the lion's share of potential viewership.
I am not interested in your desires to be famous or a WoW streamer, and don't care that you feel you have put yourself at a disadvantage to achieve this.
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Stfuppercut • Tewi • Frosted
Linguine wrote: ↑5 years ago"Huge Creative Wall of Text"? You mean your last post from Page 6?killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoYou are repeating again the same "Huge Creative Wall of Text" filled with lies and false information , so heading all around and re explaining to you again and again something you are going to ignore (And then repeating the same own Huge Creative Wall of Text)
And what about the solid debunking of your claims of Pre-raid BiS blue gear from Page 5 that you completely ignored and avoided?
You are on an English forum speaking in English. It is your choice to be here, and it is not any of our responsibilities to take it easier on you for not being as fluent as other members. It could, however, be your choice to leave and join a forum that shares your native tongue if you feel it would allow your ideas to be shared properly.
Insisting on being present in an English forum where you believe yourself to be at a disadvantage and whine about it just reeks of a desire to be seen and known by the English-speaking WoW community which is likely much larger than your own with the lion's share of potential viewership.
I am not interested in your desires to be famous or a WoW streamer, and don't care that you feel you have put yourself at a disadvantage to achieve this.
Your debunking was debunked , but you still ignored it:And what about the solid debunking of your claims of Pre-raid BiS blue gear from Page 5 that you completely ignored and avoided?
Quoting it:
Pre Raid BiS Blues on progression night , NO THUNDERFURY , (Even Skarm using shit tons of Consumes in his Videos despite him wearing a Tier 3 Equipment,so not using Potion is also telling that you play double standards here and you are here for trolling only), Pre Raid group and Green geared group!
Garr - Only Armor Potion used (unlike Skarm with shit lots of Consumes and T3)
Gehenas - Didn't use Potions for mana at all , just Elixir for SP and Food (unlike Skarm with shit tons of Consumes and T3)
Lucifron - Armor scroll , Food buff and SP Elixir , used only once Demonic Rune because Curse from Boss drained my mana, but that's all (unlike Skarm with shit tons of Consumes and T3).
Majordomo - SP Elixir and only at beginning GFPP , no Runes ,no Pots used (unlike Skarm with shit tons of Consumes and T3).
Your Ignorance is so strong and demands so big with nothing to offer as a result to prove your claims!
Gear used, which you ignored again and repeating the same shits again. (only difference is Flurry Axe using which i bough from AH) .
I don't care about your Racism .You are on an English forum speaking in English. It is your choice to be here, and it is not any of our responsibilities to take it easier on you for not being as fluent as other members. It could, however, be your choice to leave and join a forum that shares your native tongue if you feel it would allow your ideas to be shared properly.
Insisting on being present in an English forum where you believe yourself to be at a disadvantage and whine about it just reeks of a desire to be seen and known by the English-speaking WoW community which is likely much larger than your own with the lion's share of potential viewership.
I am not interested in your desires to be famous or a WoW streamer, and don't care that you feel you have put yourself at a disadvantage to achieve this.
You should say "Thank you for communicating in English as NON-English foreigner" .
Something that you would never do in my language!
/Wisdom is Priority
/Activity is Skill
/Skill is Life
/Justice will prevails
/Activity is Skill
/Skill is Life
/Justice will prevails
What a lovely addition to our little community. So glad to have this new member onboard. This is typically where I would rip him apart in text, but for fear of being banned for shunning/teasing such an individual I'll hold my tongue. I would hate to oose any assholery. Lets just let the new guy do his thing and act completely socially retarded while we all remain calm and cordial.
2000 IQg0bledyg00k wrote: ↑5 years agoNever making a single investment again until I 100% know it pays off.
You admitted yourself in an earlier video that the only gear difference you had was Thunderfury. You had everything else, including AQ gear.
Even now on all of the videos you linked I can see https://classic.wowhead.com/item=20688/earthen-guard easily at a glance in all four raid videos (AQ gear). The geared state of your raid is quite visible as well.
A final video of you sitting outside the gates of IF with much less gear isn't going to change any of that.
I have never specified my race, nor anything about race at all in this thread. Furthermore, I am not "English".killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoI don't care about your Racism .
You should say "Thank you for communicating in English as NON-English foreigner" .
Something that you would never do in my language!
@Teebling I believe Killerduki has gone too far with his slander. I would like to formally petition for a ban.
I think what is safe to say @killerduki is that if it is so important to you to prove paladins are such great main tanks in raids, you better rethink your strategies. Posting videos from which gear and content are not realistic, raging, namecalling and off-topic nonsense just don't give you a very strong case. Nor does it make you any credible.
Calling someone racist because of a language issue you yourself brought up is just... I have no words.
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Linguine • Stfuppercut • Tewi
Expect the worst. Hope for the best.
As big a contribution as any, at this point.
Rinku < the Druid > - For the HORDE - Gehennas, EU
So I read the entire thread.
First off, I am really sorry you guys have to deal with Duki. He's been a constant plague on every forum, discord, or serious TC website for years now, and will turn any discussion on Paladin into a shouting match with outlandish claims and then say he's supporting it with evidence in form of videos that does not show anything like what is claimed. Engaging with this in any serious manner is a fools errand and will lead nowhere as he will just keep on requesting evidence, and then ignore any evidence that actually gets posted over and over until everyone tire of discussing with him.
Secondly, i'd like to point out that those raid videos he link are all showing extremely low DPS. You can calculate the total TPS by looking up the total threat on KTM and divide that by the fight length. In every case the threat is miles behind a Warrior or Druid with equal gear. They are all simply very poor representations of an actual raid in which debuffs and buffs are applied and used optimally, and DPS are playing to their full potential.
Let's not even begin to discuss how he either likes to cherry pick examples or flat out lie about things in order to prove his point (The training dummy in the video he linked is level 1). It's also pretty obvious once you have debated him for a while that he dont actually seem to understand the concept of evidence.
Anyway, not going to directly address any of Duki's posts here, but I do want to point out that they are all from private servers. Some very noteworthy differences between Private servers and the Classic Beta is as follows:
Holy Damage is subject to partial resists due to bosses having 15 Holy Resistance from being 3 levels higher. Even though Holy Resist as a stat does not exists, all spells can still resist partially or binary against higher level targets. There is no way to gear around this.
Partial resists apply to at least:
* Seal of Righteousness
* Judgement of Righteousness
* Consecration
* Retribution Aura (I believe this one has binary resist)
It probably also applies to Exorcism and Holy Wrath, and possibly Holy Shield. This means a net decrease in threat of the Paladin. The difference is not major over the course of a fight, but it can lead to a higher probability of a bad luck scenario in which spells partially resist during the initial pull of the boss, possibly leading to someone overaggroing with no Taunt to get the boss back.
Additionally, Seal of Righteousness does not trigger Judgement of Wisdom in Classic. This means our mana regen contribution from Judgement of Wisdom is cut in half, leading to further lower our already strained mana pool.
The problem with Duki is he dont seem to have ever played in a real raid with people who know what they are doing. Thus all his experiences on Paladin tanking, especially in regards to their ability to sustain mana is highly skewed as his DPS just dont produce the kind of damage that requires a full threat rotation. In a raid with good players you will be forced to use your abilities such as Judgement, Consecration and Holy Shield on cooldown. With a mana pool of under 3000, and no additional Judgement of Wisdom procs from SoR it means mana will be a huge and major concern in Classic even more than it already is on private servers.
Anyway. These were the most major differences between private servers and Classic.
Prot Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable. On other bosses a taunt is not required, but a huge asset. Examples would be Sartura and C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
We also suffer greatly from a lack of gear itemized for us. Warriors get 3 full tier sets for tanking, with one pseudo tank set ( Conqueror ) that also happens to have pieces that are superior for threat generation while also providing defensive stats.
Paladins have no such gear. We are instead forced to pick up off-pieces, most of the time worse itemized than the Warrior tier pieces. This is on top of our already much lower base health, and often the pieces that are Best in Slot is several tiers behind Warriors, meaning we not only have much lower health than Warriors, we also have lower Armor, and Warriors have 10% additional damage reduction from Defensive Stance.
This problem gets even worse when you consider that a lot of gear Warriors can use have both Offensive and Defensive stats. Conqueror f.ex have hit, agi, str, defense and high stam. Because Warriors use physical stats to increase their threat generation they can often find all the stats they need in the same piece. When they cannot, the physical DPS gear they can equip often have very high stamina to begin with.
Paladin threat is not based on physical damage however. It's mostly based on spells. This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana. Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats. We also have absolutely terrible spell coefficients. SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
Requiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
Another big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown. This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Having mana also puts the Paladin at a severe disadvantage for certain bosses that have mechanics involving mana. Some examples are Vaelastrasz where Burning Adrenaline can prematurely target the Paladin tank, or Ragnaros where any mana user will randomly get hit by Hammer of Ragnaros, causing a knockback to any player within 20 yards of the Paladin. Anyone that has done Ragnaros will know how little space you already have in the tank zone on this boss. Having an additional positional requirement for offtanks just adds unecessary risk.
There's also the obvious lack of defensive cooldowns when something does go wrong. Shield Wall is amazing to get through a tough spot. Last Stand is also a great oh-crap button, and Warriors have access to Life Giving Gem. The only real defensive cooldown available to Paladins will be Glyph of Deflection, which is a trinket dropping from Sapphiron. But that is so late in the game that at which point, who cares.
And I know Duki will come back to argue that Shield Wall is not as good as having Lay on Hands, as the armor buff from lay on hands last 2 min. He always argue this point whenever it's brought up, but it's a nonsensical argument. I dont dispute Lay on Hands being good, but not only is it nowhere close to the 75% damage reduction provided by Shield Wall, but Lay on Hands can also be cast on other players. So really a Warrior will have both buffs.
Bubble is nice and all to remove certain debuffs, but there's not a lot of bosses where this is truly useful.
I apologize if this went on and on forever, and even though my post might sound very negative, I am passionate about Paladin tanks. I love playing one, and i think they have their use. They are certainly a good class for 5man. And they can do well in raids like ZG.
But at the end of the day, there is nothing a Paladin can tank that a Warrior or Druid cannot tank better. Perhaps the only exception in the entire game would be Noth (edited), where having Exorcism as a range pickup ability will put them at a slight advantage.
Paladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
A Warrior will always have a higher health pool, higher armor, higher threat output than a Paladin. There's also strong evidence that bosses in Classic will have 0 armor after debuffs are applied which will greatly increase the threat produced by physical DPS in raids. This armor reduction also scale better for Warriors than for Paladins, and on top of the other nerfs to the Paladin class compared with private servers, this will make Paladins a suboptimal choice for any guild looking to progress through the content as the gap between Warriors and Paladins will increase even further than on private servers.
I know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
In any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
My real issue here is this. I think players should pick whatever spec they want to play in Classic. There's no point playing something you dont find enjoyable and ultimately we all play the game for fun.
However I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information. Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great. All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
If you passionately want to play Paladin tank I say go for it. Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle, with very expensive consume requirements, and you will need to be fine getting passed up on gear over and over until your other tanks have the gear you want. If you still want to do it, it can be rewarding to do. Just dont expect it will be easier or better than a Warrior or Druid, because it wont.
-Holyfrog
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Linguine • Stfuppercut • Roadblock • Tewi • Aoth
I'm just gonna emphasize these two quotes for the lazy people out here :)
Thanks a lot for your insight.
Rinku < the Druid > - For the HORDE - Gehennas, EU
Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoSo I read the entire thread.
First off, I am really sorry you guys have to deal with Duki. He's been a constant plague on every forum, discord, or serious TC website for years now, and will turn any discussion on Paladin into a shouting match with outlandish claims and then say he's supporting it with evidence in form of videos that does not show anything like what is claimed. Engaging with this in any serious manner is a fools errand and will lead nowhere as he will just keep on requesting evidence, and then ignore any evidence that actually gets posted over and over until everyone tire of discussing with him.
Secondly, i'd like to point out that those raid videos he link are all showing extremely low DPS. You can calculate the total TPS by looking up the total threat on KTM and divide that by the fight length. In every case the threat is miles behind a Warrior or Druid with equal gear. They are all simply very poor representations of an actual raid in which debuffs and buffs are applied and used optimally, and DPS are playing to their full potential.
Let's not even begin to discuss how he either likes to cherry pick examples or flat out lie about things in order to prove his point (The training dummy in the video he linked is level 1). It's also pretty obvious once you have debated him for a while that he dont actually seem to understand the concept of evidence.
Anyway, not going to directly address any of Duki's posts here, but I do want to point out that they are all from private servers. Some very noteworthy differences between Private servers and the Classic Beta is as follows:
Holy Damage is subject to partial resists due to bosses having 15 Holy Resistance from being 3 levels higher. Even though Holy Resist as a stat does not exists, all spells can still resist partially or binary against higher level targets. There is no way to gear around this.
Partial resists apply to at least:
* Seal of Righteousness
* Judgement of Righteousness
* Consecration
* Retribution Aura (I believe this one has binary resist)
It probably also applies to Exorcism and Holy Wrath, and possibly Holy Shield. This means a net decrease in threat of the Paladin. The difference is not major over the course of a fight, but it can lead to a higher probability of a bad luck scenario in which spells partially resist during the initial pull of the boss, possibly leading to someone overaggroing with no Taunt to get the boss back.
Additionally, Seal of Righteousness does not trigger Judgement of Wisdom in Classic. This means our mana regen contribution from Judgement of Wisdom is cut in half, leading to further lower our already strained mana pool.
The problem with Duki is he dont seem to have ever played in a real raid with people who know what they are doing. Thus all his experiences on Paladin tanking, especially in regards to their ability to sustain mana is highly skewed as his DPS just dont produce the kind of damage that requires a full threat rotation. In a raid with good players you will be forced to use your abilities such as Judgement, Consecration and Holy Shield on cooldown. With a mana pool of under 3000, and no additional Judgement of Wisdom procs from SoR it means mana will be a huge and major concern in Classic even more than it already is on private servers.
Anyway. These were the most major differences between private servers and Classic.
Prot Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable. On other bosses a taunt is not required, but a huge asset. Examples would be Sartura and C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
We also suffer greatly from a lack of gear itemized for us. Warriors get 3 full tier sets for tanking, with one pseudo tank set ( Conqueror ) that also happens to have pieces that are superior for threat generation while also providing defensive stats.
Paladins have no such gear. We are instead forced to pick up off-pieces, most of the time worse itemized than the Warrior tier pieces. This is on top of our already much lower base health, and often the pieces that are Best in Slot is several tiers behind Warriors, meaning we not only have much lower health than Warriors, we also have lower Armor, and Warriors have 10% additional damage reduction from Defensive Stance.
This problem gets even worse when you consider that a lot of gear Warriors can use have both Offensive and Defensive stats. Conqueror f.ex have hit, agi, str, defense and high stam. Because Warriors use physical stats to increase their threat generation they can often find all the stats they need in the same piece. When they cannot, the physical DPS gear they can equip often have very high stamina to begin with.
Paladin threat is not based on physical damage however. It's mostly based on spells. This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana. Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats. We also have absolutely terrible spell coefficients. SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
Requiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
Another big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown. This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Having mana also puts the Paladin at a severe disadvantage for certain bosses that have mechanics involving mana. Some examples are Vaelastrasz where Burning Adrenaline can prematurely target the Paladin tank, or Ragnaros where any mana user will randomly get hit by Hammer of Ragnaros, causing a knockback to any player within 20 yards of the Paladin. Anyone that has done Ragnaros will know how little space you already have in the tank zone on this boss. Having an additional positional requirement for offtanks just adds unecessary risk.
There's also the obvious lack of defensive cooldowns when something does go wrong. Shield Wall is amazing to get through a tough spot. Last Stand is also a great oh-crap button, and Warriors have access to Life Giving Gem. The only real defensive cooldown available to Paladins will be Glyph of Deflection, which is a trinket dropping from Sapphiron. But that is so late in the game that at which point, who cares.
And I know Duki will come back to argue that Shield Wall is not as good as having Lay on Hands, as the armor buff from lay on hands last 2 min. He always argue this point whenever it's brought up, but it's a nonsensical argument. I dont dispute Lay on Hands being good, but not only is it nowhere close to the 75% damage reduction provided by Shield Wall, but Lay on Hands can also be cast on other players. So really a Warrior will have both buffs.
Bubble is nice and all to remove certain debuffs, but there's not a lot of bosses where this is truly useful.
I apologize if this went on and on forever, and even though my post might sound very negative, I am passionate about Paladin tanks. I love playing one, and i think they have their use. They are certainly a good class for 5man. And they can do well in raids like ZG.
But at the end of the day, there is nothing a Paladin can tank that a Warrior or Druid cannot tank better. Perhaps the only exception in the entire game would be Heigan, where having Exorcism as a range pickup ability will put them at a slight advantage.
Paladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
A Warrior will always have a higher health pool, higher armor, higher threat output than a Paladin. There's also strong evidence that bosses in Classic will have 0 armor after debuffs are applied which will greatly increase the threat produced by physical DPS in raids. This armor reduction also scale better for Warriors than for Paladins, and on top of the other nerfs to the Paladin class compared with private servers, this will make Paladins a suboptimal choice for any guild looking to progress through the content as the gap between Warriors and Paladins will increase even further than on private servers.
I know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
In any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
My real issue here is this. I think players should pick whatever spec they want to play in Classic. There's no point playing something you dont find enjoyable and ultimately we all play the game for fun.
However I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information. Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great. All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
If you passionately want to play Paladin tank I say go for it. Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle, with very expensive consume requirements, and you will need to be fine getting passed up on gear over and over until your other tanks have the gear you want. If you still want to do it, it can be rewarding to do. Just dont expect it will be easier or better than a Warrior or Druid, because it wont.
-Holyfrog
Tells the person who believes in non invented Spec = Spelladin. But sure, let find out who is the plague here spilling fasle info in creative English words!So I read the entire thread.
First off, I am really sorry you guys have to deal with Duki. He's been a constant plague on every forum, discord, or serious TC website for years now, and will turn any discussion on Paladin into a shouting match with outlandish claims and then say he's supporting it with evidence in form of videos that does not show anything like what is claimed. Engaging with this in any serious manner is a fools errand and will lead nowhere as he will just keep on requesting evidence, and then ignore any evidence that actually gets posted over and over until everyone tire of discussing with him.
All of the Videos are recorded on a "Progression Raiding" , with "Progression Geared people" , that mean the whole Raid is equal standard geared as the Protection Paladin and not getting Boosted by Full Tier 3 GG .Secondly, i'd like to point out that those raid videos he link are all showing extremely low DPS. You can calculate the total TPS by looking up the total threat on KTM and divide that by the fight length. In every case the threat is miles behind a Warrior or Druid with equal gear. They are all simply very poor representations of an actual raid in which debuffs and buffs are applied and used optimally, and DPS are playing to their full potential.
The higher progression is , the more Gear you get = more Aggro = More DPS , same rule Apply to both Paladin Tank and Damage Dealers in the Group , it goes all together within the Progress.
Unlike that, there is no single Video of Warrior or Druid doing the same progression in order to compare how they are going to even be , therefore Druid not abusing the "creative use of mechanic" like MCP filled in his Bags!
And the difference is going to be like let say what :Let's not even begin to discuss how he either likes to cherry pick examples or flat out lie about things in order to prove his point (The training dummy in the video he linked is level 1). It's also pretty obvious once you have debated him for a while that he dont actually seem to understand the concept of evidence.
Hit Cap = 0 Misses anyway , Holy Resistance wont Apply for SoR (It's bug even in Beta and is proven by old Archives and Videos from 2006) , Parry = Parry Haste by Paladin = Faster swings for more JoW procs/SoR procs/Weapon Procs = More aggro , Parry Haste by Boss = More return damage against Boss by Paladin.
Glancing blows will make barely 5% difference from White swings, since White swings are not a big factor for Paladin threat.
Only because it is Beta, doesn't mean there are no bugs within , SoR is proven as Bugged with evidence :Anyway, not going to directly address any of Duki's posts here, but I do want to point out that they are all from private servers. Some very noteworthy differences between Private servers and the Classic Beta is as follows:
Holy Damage is subject to partial resists due to bosses having 15 Holy Resistance from being 3 levels higher. Even though Holy Resist as a stat does not exists, all spells can still resist partially or binary against higher level targets. There is no way to gear around this.
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rapunzel4771
Published on Jun 12, 2006
No Partial Resists by SoR against higher target.
phreneticdotnet
Published on Nov 5, 2006
Guild Phrenetic in Sunken Temple for the first time killing Jammal'an the Prophet. March 23rd, 2005 @ 10:43 PM
This is how you talk out of your mind without knowing stuffs and without being good informed , it is hell yeah funny how you come with all those conclusions very easy , only because something is bugged, doesn't mean it works like that !No Partial Resists again!
Partial resists apply to at least:
* Seal of Righteousness
* Judgement of Righteousness
* Consecration
* Retribution Aura (I believe this one has binary resist)
It probably also applies to Exorcism and Holy Wrath, and possibly Holy Shield. This means a net decrease in threat of the Paladin. The difference is not major over the course of a fight, but it can lead to a higher probability of a bad luck scenario in which spells partially resist during the initial pull of the boss, possibly leading to someone overaggroing with no Taunt to get the boss back.
Atraira
Published on Mar 15, 2007
Quoting his words : "What about before bc , how did Paladin Tank without 2.0 patch" and then he began !
No Seal of Righteousness Partial Resists , No Consecration Partial Resists , No Retribution Aura Partial Resists, No Holy Shield Partial Resists at all!
This is evidence that you spill lies and false info in extremely dangerous and creative ways!
Not only that , the above 2 Videos also are evidence that SoR does not Partial Resist as such "Partial Resist" should ALWAYS occur if target is higher than you at least 1 lvl!
There is nothing cut in half , i have 0 problems if i don't have double JoW Procs, only your so called "Invented Spelladins" are going to have that problems , not skilled Protection Paladin.Additionally, Seal of Righteousness does not trigger Judgement of Wisdom in Classic. This means our mana regen contribution from Judgement of Wisdom is cut in half, leading to further lower our already strained mana pool.
That's even evidence where i don't even use Judge of Wisdom even :
No Judgement of Wisdom , No Runes, No Mana Pots. Still doing the fight easy without problems.
Only noobs do have Mana issues , not me , but obviously this apply to you .
You speak as you are an expert about this Game and that you know me very good.The problem with Duki is he dont seem to have ever played in a real raid with people who know what they are doing. Thus all his experiences on Paladin tanking, especially in regards to their ability to sustain mana is highly skewed as his DPS just dont produce the kind of damage that requires a full threat rotation. In a raid with good players you will be forced to use your abilities such as Judgement, Consecration and Holy Shield on cooldown. With a mana pool of under 3000, and no additional Judgement of Wisdom procs from SoR it means mana will be a huge and major concern in Classic even more than it already is on private servers.
In reality you talk out of your ass some conclusions.
First of all to bring some claims about me, you need to provide evidence for them ,unfortunately you don't have.
Second of all is that YOU NEVER EVER PLAYED WITH ME in order to know how i play and who i am !
Real DPS = Real Progression = AQ40 , Naxx etc :
Thaddius = the most intensive threat fight with very short time to kill , you really DO NEED SPAM AND KILL IT FASTER!
Naxx is Aggro intensive Raid and not some ordinary casual raid!
Time to educate yourself about it , because this is evidence that you speak out of what Trolls says and out of your minds , together with Skarm and Cystheen you have 0 clues how things work even!Prot Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable.
I was waiting for it!
Four Horsemen :
Thats the only excuse everyone always bring.
Its hard for paladin but doable still.
1 of the horse you can tank with 2 tanks soaking 8 debuffs
While as paladin you will make threat , as warrior you will just taunt until 8th mark without threat making.
Each mark reduce tank threat when it hit
Which mean at the end when 8th mark hit the warr, he dont taunt and pala will have the aggro.
The horse with holy damage is the one you can do as pala and 1 tank
Its hardest fight , but still doable for pala tank
The debuffs which 4hm lands to the Tank , reduces his Aggro down by 25% (unless pservers bug) .
Which mean when Warrior Taunt , he doesn't do much threats and at the last debuff , he doesn't do any threats and he is going to be 2nd on Aggro when debuff land, that how Automatically Paladin is going to take over the Horse.
You can survive up to 8 Debuffs, Well as i said , it is hardest fight for Paladin Tank and most Challenging, but not impossible. If you rotate with 8 debuffs, it is going to have time to use only 2 tanks for 1 Horse (easiest is top right) . While rest of 6 tanks rotate thru the other 3 horses ignoring the horse you tank. When other Tanks kill 1 of the Horses, they simply assist you and job done.
Or repeating as better explanation :
Let me Begin:
The most easiest of them is either the Shadow (top left) or Holy (top right) Horse .
You as a Paladin , using BiS Gear, all consumes and world Buffs , can manage to grow and have up to 14k HP or more.
Which mean , you are now able to tank (with some efforts) and handle 8 Debuffs from the horse.
How the Rotation and strategy work , together with 1 Tank (it will be hard for Healers, but doable) Warrior or Druid , who is able to Taunt, you can 2 Tank one of these 2 horses, since their normal damage is weak , but debuffs are only strong dmg taken.
First you as Paladin go there and Tank up to 6 debuffs (each of them reduce threats) and burn the whole mana trying to build massive amount of threats (exorcism ftw).
Once you get 6 debuffs, the Warrior runs and Taunt it from you (same rule by debuffs apply to him) , while he make extra tiny threats in order to take and keep the target from you , he should not do threats,but enough to keep the horse on him without making more than 110% threats compare to Paladin (control over threats).
Once the Warrior goes up to 7 Debuffs (exact time when the Paladin debuffs are about to gone) he uses Last Stand or Shield Wall , so he can manage to survive the 8th without causing problem to healer, for the last debuff he simply not making threats.
Once the last debuff hit the Warrior , thanks to aggro reducing by each mark , the Warrior is going to loose his threats and the Horse will automatically run back to the previous Tank (Paladin) who will be taking over from the Warrior with Exorcism and Judgement.
The Paladin then , can manage to tank up to 8 Debuffs with all cd's and Priest Bubble on him in order to Absorb and Survive the last one.
And vise versa with Warrior taking over at the end.
(challenging,but doable,never impossible)
Until the second time Paladin take over up to 8 debuffs (building up massive threats), the group already had like nearly 3 minutes spend, by that time , they should already killed one of the horses , which mean , you have extra tanks that are going to make it easy and take over this Horse too for lesser debuffs.
The Healers threats in this case it will never be any problem , since they constantly loose their threats by swapping and get the first 4 debuffs .
The only Place , this might not work is Private Servers , if they don't have this properly scripted.
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3 Drakes and particulary Firemaw :
Have Warrior Taunting you when Drake is about to use his Ability called (Wing Buffed) , let the Warrior or Druid (whoever is going to Taunt you) sit on the right side of the Boss (or left , opposite from you). Once he Taunt and then Boss use his Ability "Wing Buffed" , he is going to loose threat and you will remain with your original threat , then Boss will return back to you automatically.
- Wing Buffet = reduce threat by 25% toward the Main Target (In Pservers this is bugged and it wipes more than 50% or full amount of threat) . (he does that Ability each
Make sure Offtank taunt you 10 Seconds before "Wing Buffed" Ability from Boss is used in case he resist, so he will have a chance to Mocking Bow or re use 2nd time Taunt .
That mean you only need Fire Resistance Gear , so you can resist 75% of his Debuffs, which makes you Tank/Spank that Boss without risk of loosing Aggro (if Offtanks Taunt you in time correctly) .
Fight is simple , have Offtank taunting you for Wing Buffeds and enjoy being Main Tank.
This same rule apply for all 3 drakes , only difference between 1/2 and 3rd Drake is that at 1/2 you need Fire Resistance Gear while at 3rd Drake you need Shadow Resistance Gear and Mortal Strike on Boss (welcome) .
Use DBM Addon , it shows you timing for Wing Buffet.
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Battleg ... did=338277Examples would be Sartura
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Satura and her adds will occasionally reset aggro for several seconds and start chasing random people for a duration of 5 seconds. After those 5 seconds they will return to the highest aggro target, so as long as you don't pull aggro off of the tank they will go back to him.
Evidence about your lack of knowledge regarding Protection Paladins and how things work in Raid and that you speak out of mind instead of facts and reality!
I don't see them as any problem ,since they are affected by aggro and no taunt swapping there.C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
On top of that as Protection Paladin they are very easy , since you can Stun them and use Seal of Justice to constant bash them and keep them interrupted .
King against Trash killing is AoE Tank = Protection Paladin , no Warrior can be better than Protection Paladin as such since Paladin can very easy obtain multiple mobs on him without risking his Gear or without relying on special Buffs, Warrior is very low and bad.Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
Except of the Def Stance benefit Warrior do have , Higher Stamina wont change "Mitigation" that you got from Tier 3, this is compensate to the extra 30% Block Value benefit Paladin do have and you ignoring to mention it even.We also suffer greatly from a lack of gear itemized for us. Warriors get 3 full tier sets for tanking, with one pseudo tank set ( Conqueror ) that also happens to have pieces that are superior for threat generation while also providing defensive stats.
Paladins have no such gear. We are instead forced to pick up off-pieces, most of the time worse itemized than the Warrior tier pieces. This is on top of our already much lower base health, and often the pieces that are Best in Slot is several tiers behind Warriors, meaning we not only have much lower health than Warriors, we also have lower Armor, and Warriors have 10% additional damage reduction from Defensive Stance.
As far for Armor concern , Paladin using Offset Items can also get Armor Cap = Damage Mitigation equal to Warriors.
Educate yourself how Gearing as Protection Paladin work!
Paladins also do have lot of Gear that can be used as Offensive , for Example Tier 2 Set have shit tons of Stamina , Armor . Same as Naxx Offset pieces and PVP Set do have lots of Stamina and Armor and can be used as Tanking.This problem gets even worse when you consider that a lot of gear Warriors can use have both Offensive and Defensive stats. Conqueror f.ex have hit, agi, str, defense and high stam. Because Warriors use physical stats to increase their threat generation they can often find all the stats they need in the same piece. When they cannot, the physical DPS gear they can equip often have very high stamina to begin with.
Warrior using DPS Gear is equal and same as sacrificing his Defense , which mean Paladin and Warrior are in the same boat , especially that in the Video you can educate yourself how Paladin reach beyond def cap and can compensate with DPS Gear (SP) for more threat without anything being sacrificed and using more Stamina instead!
Bullshit , Paladin threat is based on everything Spell and Physical !Paladin threat is not based on physical damage however.This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana.
Evidence is this :
(7 Minutes fight= 0 mana issues, there is no fight where you can do max threat that last for 7 minutes and those who are longer are with breaks where you can regen it!)
50% of Paladin threat comes from Physical damage!
Mitigation stat = damage reduction = Armor.Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats.
https://classicdb.ch/?item=16951
375 Armor
+21 Stamina
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 7.
Find me a single Warrior Piece that offers such high amount of Stamina Bracer and do provide high amount of Physical damage Stat !
And Warrior Abilities coefficients are what?SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
Limited to Weapon and Shield?!!!
Please straight your facts before you spill more nonsense , Paladins do scale with everything unlike you as Warrior who is limited to 2 Items!
I don't really need both of them , Judgement of Wisdom is enough and it does benefit to everyone , i don't need any special relying in order to Tank , but everything is welcome to be part of ,if not then why not ?Requiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
You do have Rage and you Rage starving , so you need Rage Pots in order to maintain a high threat too!Another big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown.
Not really , i do have Runes for Mana job, i can always use Greater Stoneshield Potion for additional 2000 Armor too!This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
Parry Haste 14% in Classic is going to Reckbomb the shit out of your Duel Wield and MCP Tank!This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Not really if you know how they work.Having mana also puts the Paladin at a severe disadvantage for certain bosses that have mechanics involving mana.
let me educate you , since you keep up facts from pservers and you do not describe them as Original Classic how they work , since you are clueless :Some examples are Vaelastrasz where Burning Adrenaline can prematurely target the Paladin tank,
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Vaelast ... did=347980
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Vael only casts Burning Adrenaline in two scenarios: He will cast it on random mana users thruought the fight and he will cast it on the current tank every 45 seconds. 1 tank killed every 45 seconds for 3 minutes --> 3 / 0.75 = 4 tanks. When the MT is afflicted, healers must be ready to transition to the next tank while keeping the old one up at the same time untill the debuff kills him. Thus, the fight requires 4 tanks in a threat-building queue.
Regardless of how you see it or believe it , Main Tank is ALWAYS going to be affected by Burning Adrenaline each 45 seconds , even Warriors or Druids.
This is perfect example that you just use Creative Wall of Text and you spill thousands of false info and lies in very creative way , so people believing you !
You don't need any special spot , you already have a spot where Tanks are sitting and NOBODY stay there next to them , so nobody is getting affected by Hammer of Ragnaros, unless you are noob and have no fucking clue where Tank position suppose to be.Ragnaros where any mana user will randomly get hit by Hammer of Ragnaros, causing a knockback to any player within 20 yards of the Paladin. Anyone that has done Ragnaros will know how little space you already have in the tank zone on this boss. Having an additional positional requirement for offtanks just adds unecessary risk.
(Time to Education) :
Now , let me educate you that Fire Resistance Gear do cause knockbacks to resist , which mean you have 75% chance to resist (nearly full time) all of the Knockbacks!
That's not true , Improved LoH and Bubble is defensive cd , Imp LoH provide you 30% more Armor for 2 minutes, Bubble using /macro for instant removal = removes all deadly debuffs which are 100% dead for Warriors!There's also the obvious lack of defensive cooldowns when something does go wrong.
Nice cheap shots , you even mention the Paladin oh-crap buttons ,but you dodge them like no tomorrow.Shield Wall is amazing to get through a tough spot. Last Stand is also a great oh-crap button, and Warriors have access to Life Giving Gem. The only real defensive cooldown available to Paladins will be Glyph of Deflection, which is a trinket dropping from Sapphiron. But that is so late in the game that at which point, who cares.
Improved Lay on Hand for Paladin = 30% more Armor for 2 minutes + maximum HP filled + some mana if you have 0 mana + huge amount of aggro.
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Shield Wall = 75% damage reduction for few seconds , nothing else!
Bubble for Paladin = Immune to all sources of damage + you can /macro instant remove to clear all deadly debuffs.
VS
Last Stand = Increased HP Pool = Still you can die very easy and you are still vulnerable of Attacks
Life Giving Gem is Trinket that you need to obtain from BWL, not personal Skill , it work same as Last Stand.
VS
Glyph of Deflection = Huge amount of Block and Blocked damage , on top of that it does scale with Paladin Talent where Block Value is increased by 30% = HUGE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE REDUCTION.
Shield Wall is amazing, but it does last for few seconds and it is selfish , Improved Lay on Hand last for 2 minutes and can be used on everyone!And I know Duki will come back to argue that Shield Wall is not as good as having Lay on Hands, as the armor buff from lay on hands last 2 min. He always argue this point whenever it's brought up, but it's a nonsensical argument. I dont dispute Lay on Hands being good, but not only is it nowhere close to the 75% damage reduction provided by Shield Wall, but Lay on Hands can also be cast on other players. So really a Warrior will have both buffs.
Now since you brought this into a question = Why would i use 4 Warrior Tanks in Raid , where only 1 Shield Wall is going to be used (Main Tank) and where i can get 3 Improved lay on hands instead by other 3 Tanks (Who are going to be in Raid instead of Warrior) !?
So having more than 1 Warrior Tank in Raid = 0 Benefits by extra Shield Walls , having more than 1 Protection Paladin in Raid = huge benefits by extra Improved Lay on Hands!
Straight your facts before you spill nonsense.
It's not used only for debuffs, but also for deadly AoE moves , helpful situations like removing Crowd Control effects on Tank etc.Bubble is nice and all to remove certain debuffs, but there's not a lot of bosses where this is truly useful.
Example Hakkar = being mind controled = Bubble removes it , Jin'Do = beinging mind controlled = Bubble removes it , Neffarian Fear = Bubble removes it , KT Mindcontrol = Bubble removes it , Sapphiron Air Phase bomb = Bubble causes you to be immune etc etc , i can count until tomorrow!
It's not the issue that you are being negative, it's that you spill shit loads of missinformation and lies about Paladins and how they work.I apologize if this went on and on forever, and even though my post might sound very negative, I am passionate about Paladin tanks. I love playing one, and i think they have their use. They are certainly a good class for 5man. And they can do well in raids like ZG.
I don't dispute the negative aspects , but your intentions here are not to be negative or to sound negative , your sole intentions here are to shit on Paladin Protection !
Even vice versa , i can count until tomorrow fights where Paladin Tank is better than Warrior or Druid Tank!But at the end of the day, there is nothing a Paladin can tank that a Warrior or Druid cannot tank better.Perhaps the only exception in the entire game would be Heigan, where having Exorcism as a range pickup ability will put them at a slight advantage.
Paladins indeed are going to make faster smoother and clearer run with faster times! So why would i use Warrior 2nd-3rd-4th Tank and not Paladin which is 10 times better than Warrior during Trash Clearing etc.Paladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
Higher health pool yes , higher armor no = both are going to be armor cap , Paladins are better on threat output than a Warrior and that's fact!A Warrior will always have a higher health pool, higher armor, higher threat output than a Paladin.
I know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
In any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
Footage from Beta Library Tanking at level 40 with poor Gear, mobs does 35-50 damage.
This is me Nostalrius/Elysium/Lighthope Tanking at level 40 with good Gear, mobs does 100-120 damage.
Nothing better than pure Evidence.
Or the case you forget to mention :In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
Parry Haste is going to swallow your Shield Block tick much faster and with higher chance than a Paladin Holy Shield which can have Parry/Dodge in between.
This causes Warrior to be vulnerable on Crushing Blows and Crits if not Def capped!
Exactly what i am doing , i bring evidence for my claims and everything , so they can see correct and factual information .However I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information.
What you do = Words,Criticising with words, No Evidence , No Sources to backup your claims , denigrating the Class only , Lies and Missinformation!
I NEVER EVER SAID THAT!Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great.
Instead , it's you who put words in my mouth in order to justify own propaganda!
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I never said "Paladin is best Tank" , i always been telling that All Tanks are equal , but in diverse ways and do the same thing different way only.
I tell reality , but i never dare to force anyone to tell anyone to play Protection Paladin , who am i to tell what people should play or want to play?!All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
Unlike you i am telling the truth and how things work , not lying , but what people decide to play is their own Decisions!
Each decision bring own risk , since you forget to mention that Warrior Tanks are way too much and everyone still have a risk to not be invited into Raiding Guild once they realize the Tank spots are full! So we are in same boat with risks , but what people are going to decide it's not up to you or me to tell them what they want to choose ,it's up to them!
fearmongering , this is what you come out with , let the fuck people play what they want , stop using your propaganda once for all and be here to provide helpful hints and tips to those who really want to play , not to fear them of what they want to play!If you passionately want to play Paladin tank I say go for it. Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle,
Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle, with very expensive consume requirements,
Single Elixir used , no Pots , no Runes , no any "expensive consume requirements" ..... Proof that you lie and bring false information!
Psojed already wrote something about it very nice :
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So, the "extreme minimum" to tank raid bosses is apparently a Flask, four Elixir-type consumables, 16 stamina food, full stack of Runes and Major mana potions. Care to explain how was killerduki able to tank raid bosses in his videos NOT using all these listed consumables? For example his Magmadar video, where he's using a single elixir from the list, no flask, no other consumables, no potion, no dark rune.
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Guys, I've had my own share of arguments with killerduki back in 2016 when I was a tester at Kronos, so I know what it is like to argue with him. However, the simple solution is to state the facts, prove what is wrong and ignore any further mentions of things that were already proven wrong. For now, I'd love if you guys could ignore duki for a moment, and focus on what this thread is really about.
Hello Holyfrog. The issue here is that before the whole shouting match between duki and the opposition of paladin tanking started, there was no evidence to support the claims of the opposition. I asked for several examples of the mentioned Paladin shortcomings, like the mana issues and the consumable dependency, but I was never given a reply.
It applies to almost any spell. For example Seal of Command, which behaves in every possible way as a melee ability would - being dodgeable, having 2x crit dmg, using melee hit chance, etc. - will also get partially resisted because of level difference.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoHoly Damage is subject to partial resists due to bosses having 15 Holy Resistance from being 3 levels higher. Even though Holy Resist as a stat does not exists, all spells can still resist partially or binary against higher level targets. There is no way to gear around this.
Partial resists apply to at least:
* Seal of Righteousness
* Judgement of Righteousness
* Consecration
* Retribution Aura (I believe this one has binary resist)
It probably also applies to Exorcism and Holy Wrath, and possibly Holy Shield. This means a net decrease in threat of the Paladin. The difference is not major over the course of a fight, but it can lead to a higher probability of a bad luck scenario in which spells partially resist during the initial pull of the boss, possibly leading to someone overaggroing with no Taunt to get the boss back.
However, if a warrior misses his first attack, the effect is the same as if a Palatank's first attack is fully resisted. I believe those are identical conditions for any tanking class. Warrior's attacks can also be dodged and parried. Palatank's spells cannot be dodged or parried. Well, technically SoR can, because it procs from auto attacks. I believe having partial and full resists more than counters the possible threat loss when compared to a Warrior's threat loss from dodges and parries. If you're up to it, you can do some number crunching on Threat loss from Warrior's dodges and parries vs. Palatank's Seal dodges/parries and partial and full resists from his other spells, but without numbers I'd say this doesn't make Palatanks inferior.
The idea of someone overaggroing requires overcoming the tank's initial aggro on pull + 110% of tank's current threat (for melee, 130% of tank's current threat for ranged), so in reality that only happens with a very early attack that also crits. In other words, we're talking about a very rare case. A case which can easily be mitigated by simply having the raid to wait a few seconds before the DPS starts - another common tactic which is NOT limited just to Palatanks.
Finally, please remember that you're in a raid environment, you communitace with other people in the raid in real time. It's very common that for example a Taunt is resisted, the tank announces it to the raid, and off-tanks retake the mobs. The same can and should be done in the case of a failed pull or early overaggro.
Source?
JoWisdom is triggering from any melee hit and any spell hit from the whole raid, so not triggering from seal hits sounds like a bug. But you're the first person who says that it doesn't trigger from it. AFAIK Theloras and other spelladins tested SoR a lot, and I believe the only thing that wasn't triggering from SoR was Shadow Oil.
While this may be true, don't forget that any given raid will also have Warriors capable of using Taunt. Unless you're some special raid leader who wants to build a raid with absolutely no Taunt present, this shouldn't pose any significant problem. I don't know about you guys, but if a Palatank cannot tank one or two specific bosses because Blizzard didn't give him a Taunt, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't tank any boss EVER, or that they cannot be good at tanking.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoProt Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable. On other bosses a taunt is not required, but a huge asset. Examples would be Sartura and C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
This is true and should be emphasized as the main downsides of a Palatank - lack of specialized tanking gear and no innate 10% damage reduction. Not things like missing taunt or unproven consumable reliability.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoWe also suffer greatly from a lack of gear itemized for us. Warriors get 3 full tier sets for tanking, with one pseudo tank set ( Conqueror ) that also happens to have pieces that are superior for threat generation while also providing defensive stats.
Paladins have no such gear. We are instead forced to pick up off-pieces, most of the time worse itemized than the Warrior tier pieces. This is on top of our already much lower base health, and often the pieces that are Best in Slot is several tiers behind Warriors, meaning we not only have much lower health than Warriors, we also have lower Armor, and Warriors have 10% additional damage reduction from Defensive Stance.
This problem gets even worse when you consider that a lot of gear Warriors can use have both Offensive and Defensive stats. Conqueror f.ex have hit, agi, str, defense and high stam. Because Warriors use physical stats to increase their threat generation they can often find all the stats they need in the same piece. When they cannot, the physical DPS gear they can equip often have very high stamina to begin with.
This is wrong. Tier sets for Palatanks are used merely as replacement for Deathbone gear. The reason is actually high armor and Stamina, not spell damage. Palatanks use Tier set pieces without avoidance stats, because there are no better options to choose from. The good off-set pieces that Palatanks can use become available only after AQ40 is raided, which is nearly at the end of a Tank's raiding career. The other option is using Deathbone set in AQ (which you still have to use there btw.). Again, this issue stems from the lack of itemization, not from having "terrible spell coefficients". Palatanks aren't actually forced to use spell damage armor gear to maintain threat in raids.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoPaladin threat is not based on physical damage however. It's mostly based on spells. This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana. Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats. We also have absolutely terrible spell coefficients. SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
Holy paladins often spec into Lasting Judgement to be able to provide JoW for the raid. The reason is mana longevity for progression and faster clears. I don't see a problem here. Having a Ret pala in your group as Tankadin greatly boosts your threat generation thanks to the Sanctity Aura (+10% holy dmg). That being said, JoW can be replaced by consumables.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoRequiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
This is also wrong. Firstly, the ability to tank a raid boss without consumables usage was already showcased previously.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoAnother big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown. This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Secondly, even if Palatanks needed to drink mana potions on cooldown, your whole Stoneshield Potion vs. Mana Potion argument is moot, as Palatank never loses the benefits of his shield.
Warrior's total armor would be smaller, because even Draconian Deflector has more armor than a Stoneshield potion. It is the drawback of a Warrior. His TPS is capped, and you need to trade avoidance and armor from the shield for more TPS. Palatanks don't do that. Stoneshield Potion is used by Warriors to mitigate the armor lost by NOT using a Shield or not using Defensive stance. In other words, this is additional 2000 armor for the Paladin.
I got hit by Hammer of Rag several times as Ret paladin. In a group of melees. It never caused any serious issues for the raid.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoHaving mana also puts the Paladin at a severe disadvantage for certain bosses that have mechanics involving mana. Some examples are Vaelastrasz where Burning Adrenaline can prematurely target the Paladin tank, or Ragnaros where any mana user will randomly get hit by Hammer of Ragnaros, causing a knockback to any player within 20 yards of the Paladin. Anyone that has done Ragnaros will know how little space you already have in the tank zone on this boss. Having an additional positional requirement for offtanks just adds unecessary risk.
Getting randomly targeted by Burning Adrenaline is not a disadvantage of the Palatank or Pala class, it is simply one of the fight mechanics. The same way some fights are not melee-friendly, some fights are not manauser-friendly. But you can still do it.
Glyph of Deflection isn't a Paladin-specific ability. Same as the trinket. If we're talking trinkets, then Palatanks can instead use trinkets which greatly boost their TPS generation.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoThere's also the obvious lack of defensive cooldowns when something does go wrong. Shield Wall is amazing to get through a tough spot. Last Stand is also a great oh-crap button, and Warriors have access to Life Giving Gem. The only real defensive cooldown available to Paladins will be Glyph of Deflection, which is a trinket dropping from Sapphiron. But that is so late in the game that at which point, who cares.
And I know Duki will come back to argue that Shield Wall is not as good as having Lay on Hands, as the armor buff from lay on hands last 2 min. He always argue this point whenever it's brought up, but it's a nonsensical argument. I dont dispute Lay on Hands being good, but not only is it nowhere close to the 75% damage reduction provided by Shield Wall, but Lay on Hands can also be cast on other players. So really a Warrior will have both buffs.
Bubble is nice and all to remove certain debuffs, but there's not a lot of bosses where this is truly useful.
Paladins have Divine Shield, Lay on Hands and Blessing of Protection. Lay on Hands isn't about the armor (Tankadin shouldn't even spec into the armor talent, doh!), but about the fact that it's an instant 100% full heal. Unlike Last Stand, which is temporary % increase and is removed after the duration ends.
Yet you have never proven that raid has to work around a Palatank's weakness. Nor did the people before you. This is just made-up bullshit, sorry.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoPaladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
Health - True, because of lacking Palatank itemization.
Armor - False, you mentioned dual-wielding Warrior for TPS generation.
Threat - False, it is your assumption that Paladin cannot generate more TPS than a Warrior. Prove it.
Source?Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoThere's also strong evidence that bosses in Classic will have 0 armor after debuffs are applied which will greatly increase the threat produced by physical DPS in raids. This armor reduction also scale better for Warriors than for Paladins, and on top of the other nerfs to the Paladin class compared with private servers, this will make Paladins a suboptimal choice for any guild looking to progress through the content as the gap between Warriors and Paladins will increase even further than on private servers.
What nerfs? There are no nerfs between classic and private servers. I'm talking classic Palatank here. Not some peenix bullshit with wotlk AP scaling or similar PS nonsense.
And how exactly does armor being reduced to 0 or not matter to Paladins? Palatanks ignore armor, holy damage, remember?
Buffs/debuffs that have an effect on damage taken are visible on the tank. The only debuff that comes to mind which is on the boss is Curse of Recklessness and that wasn't a commonly used debuff.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoI know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
Rage generation is the most commonly bugged thing on private servers AFAIK. And 9% smaller chance to hit a boss is a pretty big deal if you ask me.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoIn any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
We aren't telling anyone that Paladins are best tanks. So far this thread was all about dismantling the nonsense you guys have made up.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoHowever I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information. Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great. All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
These are the points that are described here as Palatank problems, but they are in fact not problems:
- Mana issues when tanking
- Constant need for drinking after fight
- Lack of Taunt
- Lack of Defensive cooldowns
- Reliance on consumables
- Can't tank raid bosses
- Produces less threat than other tanks
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Warrior T1/T2 bracers. They have more STR and more STAM. Probably not as good as 7 spelldmg for pally threat generation, but still pretty damn close.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agohttps://classicdb.ch/?item=16951
375 Armor
+21 Stamina
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 7.
Find me a single Warrior Piece that offers such high amount of Stamina Bracer and do provide high amount of Physical damage Stat !
I don't think this is a good comparison. Glyph is from Naxx (P6) vs. BWL trinket (P3).For a long time you won't have the trinket, and when you do get it, Warriors can get it too.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoLife Giving Gem is Trinket that you need to obtain from BWL, not personal Skill , it work same as Last Stand.
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Glyph of Deflection = Huge amount of Block and Blocked damage , on top of that it does scale with Paladin Talent where Block Value is increased by 30% = HUGE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE REDUCTION.
Again the real issue is itemization, because Warrior Tier sets passively provide big amounts of shield block value.
T1 3/8 set bonus ... +30
T2 shoulder ... +27
T2 feet ... +18
Our 30% bonus is great, but it's lower than the sum available for Warriors from their Tier sets. And their gear passively provides STR, which also increases block amount, even if by only very small amounts. They block more damage.
How?
I believe Palatanks will have less armor because we are going to be using Deathbone parts up until AQ40, while Warriors will be using their respective Tier sets, which give more armor.
See this is my problem with you. The first video is against Hogger. Partial resists does not start to occur until level 30 on the Beta. So of course it would not apply in this video.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoOnly because it is Beta, doesn't mean there are no bugs within , SoR is proven as Bugged with evidence :
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rapunzel4771
Published on Jun 12, 2006
No Partial Resists by SoR against higher target.
phreneticdotnet
Published on Nov 5, 2006
Guild Phrenetic in Sunken Temple for the first time killing Jammal'an the Prophet. March 23rd, 2005 @ 10:43 PM
As for the sunken temple video. The target is 1 level higher, and the Paladins does a total of SIX swings. This doesnt prove anything. With only 1 level difference and a total of 6 attacks, the probability of seeing a partial resist would be extremely low. Your post too honestly too long to address, but this is exactly what I was trying to say with my previous post. You simply have no understanding of how evidence works, so debating with you is entirely pointless.
SoR having partial resists have been reported on the Beta as a bug over and over since the Beta opened. We have made sure of that. Yet it's never been changed to not partially resist, which likely means the current Beta behaviour is the correct behaviour.
In any case, none of your videos prove differently.
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killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoHolyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoSo I read the entire thread.
First off, I am really sorry you guys have to deal with Duki. He's been a constant plague on every forum, discord, or serious TC website for years now, and will turn any discussion on Paladin into a shouting match with outlandish claims and then say he's supporting it with evidence in form of videos that does not show anything like what is claimed. Engaging with this in any serious manner is a fools errand and will lead nowhere as he will just keep on requesting evidence, and then ignore any evidence that actually gets posted over and over until everyone tire of discussing with him.
Secondly, i'd like to point out that those raid videos he link are all showing extremely low DPS. You can calculate the total TPS by looking up the total threat on KTM and divide that by the fight length. In every case the threat is miles behind a Warrior or Druid with equal gear. They are all simply very poor representations of an actual raid in which debuffs and buffs are applied and used optimally, and DPS are playing to their full potential.
Let's not even begin to discuss how he either likes to cherry pick examples or flat out lie about things in order to prove his point (The training dummy in the video he linked is level 1). It's also pretty obvious once you have debated him for a while that he dont actually seem to understand the concept of evidence.
Anyway, not going to directly address any of Duki's posts here, but I do want to point out that they are all from private servers. Some very noteworthy differences between Private servers and the Classic Beta is as follows:
Holy Damage is subject to partial resists due to bosses having 15 Holy Resistance from being 3 levels higher. Even though Holy Resist as a stat does not exists, all spells can still resist partially or binary against higher level targets. There is no way to gear around this.
Partial resists apply to at least:
* Seal of Righteousness
* Judgement of Righteousness
* Consecration
* Retribution Aura (I believe this one has binary resist)
It probably also applies to Exorcism and Holy Wrath, and possibly Holy Shield. This means a net decrease in threat of the Paladin. The difference is not major over the course of a fight, but it can lead to a higher probability of a bad luck scenario in which spells partially resist during the initial pull of the boss, possibly leading to someone overaggroing with no Taunt to get the boss back.
Additionally, Seal of Righteousness does not trigger Judgement of Wisdom in Classic. This means our mana regen contribution from Judgement of Wisdom is cut in half, leading to further lower our already strained mana pool.
The problem with Duki is he dont seem to have ever played in a real raid with people who know what they are doing. Thus all his experiences on Paladin tanking, especially in regards to their ability to sustain mana is highly skewed as his DPS just dont produce the kind of damage that requires a full threat rotation. In a raid with good players you will be forced to use your abilities such as Judgement, Consecration and Holy Shield on cooldown. With a mana pool of under 3000, and no additional Judgement of Wisdom procs from SoR it means mana will be a huge and major concern in Classic even more than it already is on private servers.
Anyway. These were the most major differences between private servers and Classic.
Prot Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable. On other bosses a taunt is not required, but a huge asset. Examples would be Sartura and C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
We also suffer greatly from a lack of gear itemized for us. Warriors get 3 full tier sets for tanking, with one pseudo tank set ( Conqueror ) that also happens to have pieces that are superior for threat generation while also providing defensive stats.
Paladins have no such gear. We are instead forced to pick up off-pieces, most of the time worse itemized than the Warrior tier pieces. This is on top of our already much lower base health, and often the pieces that are Best in Slot is several tiers behind Warriors, meaning we not only have much lower health than Warriors, we also have lower Armor, and Warriors have 10% additional damage reduction from Defensive Stance.
This problem gets even worse when you consider that a lot of gear Warriors can use have both Offensive and Defensive stats. Conqueror f.ex have hit, agi, str, defense and high stam. Because Warriors use physical stats to increase their threat generation they can often find all the stats they need in the same piece. When they cannot, the physical DPS gear they can equip often have very high stamina to begin with.
Paladin threat is not based on physical damage however. It's mostly based on spells. This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana. Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats. We also have absolutely terrible spell coefficients. SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
Requiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
Another big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown. This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Having mana also puts the Paladin at a severe disadvantage for certain bosses that have mechanics involving mana. Some examples are Vaelastrasz where Burning Adrenaline can prematurely target the Paladin tank, or Ragnaros where any mana user will randomly get hit by Hammer of Ragnaros, causing a knockback to any player within 20 yards of the Paladin. Anyone that has done Ragnaros will know how little space you already have in the tank zone on this boss. Having an additional positional requirement for offtanks just adds unecessary risk.
There's also the obvious lack of defensive cooldowns when something does go wrong. Shield Wall is amazing to get through a tough spot. Last Stand is also a great oh-crap button, and Warriors have access to Life Giving Gem. The only real defensive cooldown available to Paladins will be Glyph of Deflection, which is a trinket dropping from Sapphiron. But that is so late in the game that at which point, who cares.
And I know Duki will come back to argue that Shield Wall is not as good as having Lay on Hands, as the armor buff from lay on hands last 2 min. He always argue this point whenever it's brought up, but it's a nonsensical argument. I dont dispute Lay on Hands being good, but not only is it nowhere close to the 75% damage reduction provided by Shield Wall, but Lay on Hands can also be cast on other players. So really a Warrior will have both buffs.
Bubble is nice and all to remove certain debuffs, but there's not a lot of bosses where this is truly useful.
I apologize if this went on and on forever, and even though my post might sound very negative, I am passionate about Paladin tanks. I love playing one, and i think they have their use. They are certainly a good class for 5man. And they can do well in raids like ZG.
But at the end of the day, there is nothing a Paladin can tank that a Warrior or Druid cannot tank better. Perhaps the only exception in the entire game would be Heigan, where having Exorcism as a range pickup ability will put them at a slight advantage.
Paladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
A Warrior will always have a higher health pool, higher armor, higher threat output than a Paladin. There's also strong evidence that bosses in Classic will have 0 armor after debuffs are applied which will greatly increase the threat produced by physical DPS in raids. This armor reduction also scale better for Warriors than for Paladins, and on top of the other nerfs to the Paladin class compared with private servers, this will make Paladins a suboptimal choice for any guild looking to progress through the content as the gap between Warriors and Paladins will increase even further than on private servers.
I know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
In any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
My real issue here is this. I think players should pick whatever spec they want to play in Classic. There's no point playing something you dont find enjoyable and ultimately we all play the game for fun.
However I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information. Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great. All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
If you passionately want to play Paladin tank I say go for it. Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle, with very expensive consume requirements, and you will need to be fine getting passed up on gear over and over until your other tanks have the gear you want. If you still want to do it, it can be rewarding to do. Just dont expect it will be easier or better than a Warrior or Druid, because it wont.
-HolyfrogTells the person who believes in non invented Spec = Spelladin. But sure, let find out who is the plague here spilling fasle info in creative English words!So I read the entire thread.
First off, I am really sorry you guys have to deal with Duki. He's been a constant plague on every forum, discord, or serious TC website for years now, and will turn any discussion on Paladin into a shouting match with outlandish claims and then say he's supporting it with evidence in form of videos that does not show anything like what is claimed. Engaging with this in any serious manner is a fools errand and will lead nowhere as he will just keep on requesting evidence, and then ignore any evidence that actually gets posted over and over until everyone tire of discussing with him.
All of the Videos are recorded on a "Progression Raiding" , with "Progression Geared people" , that mean the whole Raid is equal standard geared as the Protection Paladin and not getting Boosted by Full Tier 3 GG .Secondly, i'd like to point out that those raid videos he link are all showing extremely low DPS. You can calculate the total TPS by looking up the total threat on KTM and divide that by the fight length. In every case the threat is miles behind a Warrior or Druid with equal gear. They are all simply very poor representations of an actual raid in which debuffs and buffs are applied and used optimally, and DPS are playing to their full potential.
The higher progression is , the more Gear you get = more Aggro = More DPS , same rule Apply to both Paladin Tank and Damage Dealers in the Group , it goes all together within the Progress.
Unlike that, there is no single Video of Warrior or Druid doing the same progression in order to compare how they are going to even be , therefore Druid not abusing the "creative use of mechanic" like MCP filled in his Bags!
And the difference is going to be like let say what :Let's not even begin to discuss how he either likes to cherry pick examples or flat out lie about things in order to prove his point (The training dummy in the video he linked is level 1). It's also pretty obvious once you have debated him for a while that he dont actually seem to understand the concept of evidence.
Hit Cap = 0 Misses anyway , Holy Resistance wont Apply for SoR (It's bug even in Beta and is proven by old Archives and Videos from 2006) , Parry = Parry Haste by Paladin = Faster swings for more JoW procs/SoR procs/Weapon Procs = More aggro , Parry Haste by Boss = More return damage against Boss by Paladin.
Glancing blows will make barely 5% difference from White swings, since White swings are not a big factor for Paladin threat.
Only because it is Beta, doesn't mean there are no bugs within , SoR is proven as Bugged with evidence :Anyway, not going to directly address any of Duki's posts here, but I do want to point out that they are all from private servers. Some very noteworthy differences between Private servers and the Classic Beta is as follows:
Holy Damage is subject to partial resists due to bosses having 15 Holy Resistance from being 3 levels higher. Even though Holy Resist as a stat does not exists, all spells can still resist partially or binary against higher level targets. There is no way to gear around this.
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rapunzel4771
Published on Jun 12, 2006
No Partial Resists by SoR against higher target.
phreneticdotnet
Published on Nov 5, 2006
Guild Phrenetic in Sunken Temple for the first time killing Jammal'an the Prophet. March 23rd, 2005 @ 10:43 PM
This is how you talk out of your mind without knowing stuffs and without being good informed , it is hell yeah funny how you come with all those conclusions very easy , only because something is bugged, doesn't mean it works like that !No Partial Resists again!
Partial resists apply to at least:
* Seal of Righteousness
* Judgement of Righteousness
* Consecration
* Retribution Aura (I believe this one has binary resist)
It probably also applies to Exorcism and Holy Wrath, and possibly Holy Shield. This means a net decrease in threat of the Paladin. The difference is not major over the course of a fight, but it can lead to a higher probability of a bad luck scenario in which spells partially resist during the initial pull of the boss, possibly leading to someone overaggroing with no Taunt to get the boss back.
Atraira
Published on Mar 15, 2007
Quoting his words : "What about before bc , how did Paladin Tank without 2.0 patch" and then he began !
No Seal of Righteousness Partial Resists , No Consecration Partial Resists , No Retribution Aura Partial Resists, No Holy Shield Partial Resists at all!
This is evidence that you spill lies and false info in extremely dangerous and creative ways!
Not only that , the above 2 Videos also are evidence that SoR does not Partial Resist as such "Partial Resist" should ALWAYS occur if target is higher than you at least 1 lvl!
There is nothing cut in half , i have 0 problems if i don't have double JoW Procs, only your so called "Invented Spelladins" are going to have that problems , not skilled Protection Paladin.Additionally, Seal of Righteousness does not trigger Judgement of Wisdom in Classic. This means our mana regen contribution from Judgement of Wisdom is cut in half, leading to further lower our already strained mana pool.
That's even evidence where i don't even use Judge of Wisdom even :
No Judgement of Wisdom , No Runes, No Mana Pots. Still doing the fight easy without problems.
Only noobs do have Mana issues , not me , but obviously this apply to you .
You speak as you are an expert about this Game and that you know me very good.The problem with Duki is he dont seem to have ever played in a real raid with people who know what they are doing. Thus all his experiences on Paladin tanking, especially in regards to their ability to sustain mana is highly skewed as his DPS just dont produce the kind of damage that requires a full threat rotation. In a raid with good players you will be forced to use your abilities such as Judgement, Consecration and Holy Shield on cooldown. With a mana pool of under 3000, and no additional Judgement of Wisdom procs from SoR it means mana will be a huge and major concern in Classic even more than it already is on private servers.
In reality you talk out of your ass some conclusions.
First of all to bring some claims about me, you need to provide evidence for them ,unfortunately you don't have.
Second of all is that YOU NEVER EVER PLAYED WITH ME in order to know how i play and who i am !
Real DPS = Real Progression = AQ40 , Naxx etc :
Thaddius = the most intensive threat fight with very short time to kill , you really DO NEED SPAM AND KILL IT FASTER!
Naxx is Aggro intensive Raid and not some ordinary casual raid!
Time to educate yourself about it , because this is evidence that you speak out of what Trolls says and out of your minds , together with Skarm and Cystheen you have 0 clues how things work even!Prot Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable.
I was waiting for it!
Four Horsemen :
Thats the only excuse everyone always bring.
Its hard for paladin but doable still.
1 of the horse you can tank with 2 tanks soaking 8 debuffs
While as paladin you will make threat , as warrior you will just taunt until 8th mark without threat making.
Each mark reduce tank threat when it hit
Which mean at the end when 8th mark hit the warr, he dont taunt and pala will have the aggro.
The horse with holy damage is the one you can do as pala and 1 tank
Its hardest fight , but still doable for pala tank
The debuffs which 4hm lands to the Tank , reduces his Aggro down by 25% (unless pservers bug) .
Which mean when Warrior Taunt , he doesn't do much threats and at the last debuff , he doesn't do any threats and he is going to be 2nd on Aggro when debuff land, that how Automatically Paladin is going to take over the Horse.
You can survive up to 8 Debuffs, Well as i said , it is hardest fight for Paladin Tank and most Challenging, but not impossible. If you rotate with 8 debuffs, it is going to have time to use only 2 tanks for 1 Horse (easiest is top right) . While rest of 6 tanks rotate thru the other 3 horses ignoring the horse you tank. When other Tanks kill 1 of the Horses, they simply assist you and job done.
Or repeating as better explanation :
Let me Begin:
The most easiest of them is either the Shadow (top left) or Holy (top right) Horse .
You as a Paladin , using BiS Gear, all consumes and world Buffs , can manage to grow and have up to 14k HP or more.
Which mean , you are now able to tank (with some efforts) and handle 8 Debuffs from the horse.
How the Rotation and strategy work , together with 1 Tank (it will be hard for Healers, but doable) Warrior or Druid , who is able to Taunt, you can 2 Tank one of these 2 horses, since their normal damage is weak , but debuffs are only strong dmg taken.
First you as Paladin go there and Tank up to 6 debuffs (each of them reduce threats) and burn the whole mana trying to build massive amount of threats (exorcism ftw).
Once you get 6 debuffs, the Warrior runs and Taunt it from you (same rule by debuffs apply to him) , while he make extra tiny threats in order to take and keep the target from you , he should not do threats,but enough to keep the horse on him without making more than 110% threats compare to Paladin (control over threats).
Once the Warrior goes up to 7 Debuffs (exact time when the Paladin debuffs are about to gone) he uses Last Stand or Shield Wall , so he can manage to survive the 8th without causing problem to healer, for the last debuff he simply not making threats.
Once the last debuff hit the Warrior , thanks to aggro reducing by each mark , the Warrior is going to loose his threats and the Horse will automatically run back to the previous Tank (Paladin) who will be taking over from the Warrior with Exorcism and Judgement.
The Paladin then , can manage to tank up to 8 Debuffs with all cd's and Priest Bubble on him in order to Absorb and Survive the last one.
And vise versa with Warrior taking over at the end.
(challenging,but doable,never impossible)
Until the second time Paladin take over up to 8 debuffs (building up massive threats), the group already had like nearly 3 minutes spend, by that time , they should already killed one of the horses , which mean , you have extra tanks that are going to make it easy and take over this Horse too for lesser debuffs.
The Healers threats in this case it will never be any problem , since they constantly loose their threats by swapping and get the first 4 debuffs .
The only Place , this might not work is Private Servers , if they don't have this properly scripted.
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3 Drakes and particulary Firemaw :
Have Warrior Taunting you when Drake is about to use his Ability called (Wing Buffed) , let the Warrior or Druid (whoever is going to Taunt you) sit on the right side of the Boss (or left , opposite from you). Once he Taunt and then Boss use his Ability "Wing Buffed" , he is going to loose threat and you will remain with your original threat , then Boss will return back to you automatically.
- Wing Buffet = reduce threat by 25% toward the Main Target (In Pservers this is bugged and it wipes more than 50% or full amount of threat) . (he does that Ability each
Make sure Offtank taunt you 10 Seconds before "Wing Buffed" Ability from Boss is used in case he resist, so he will have a chance to Mocking Bow or re use 2nd time Taunt .
That mean you only need Fire Resistance Gear , so you can resist 75% of his Debuffs, which makes you Tank/Spank that Boss without risk of loosing Aggro (if Offtanks Taunt you in time correctly) .
Fight is simple , have Offtank taunting you for Wing Buffeds and enjoy being Main Tank.
This same rule apply for all 3 drakes , only difference between 1/2 and 3rd Drake is that at 1/2 you need Fire Resistance Gear while at 3rd Drake you need Shadow Resistance Gear and Mortal Strike on Boss (welcome) .
Use DBM Addon , it shows you timing for Wing Buffet.
https://wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Battleg ... did=338277Examples would be Sartura
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Satura and her adds will occasionally reset aggro for several seconds and start chasing random people for a duration of 5 seconds. After those 5 seconds they will return to the highest aggro target, so as long as you don't pull aggro off of the tank they will go back to him.
Evidence about your lack of knowledge regarding Protection Paladins and how things work in Raid and that you speak out of mind instead of facts and reality!
I don't see them as any problem ,since they are affected by aggro and no taunt swapping there.C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
On top of that as Protection Paladin they are very easy , since you can Stun them and use Seal of Justice to constant bash them and keep them interrupted .
King against Trash killing is AoE Tank = Protection Paladin , no Warrior can be better than Protection Paladin as such since Paladin can very easy obtain multiple mobs on him without risking his Gear or without relying on special Buffs, Warrior is very low and bad.Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
Except of the Def Stance benefit Warrior do have , Higher Stamina wont change "Mitigation" that you got from Tier 3, this is compensate to the extra 30% Block Value benefit Paladin do have and you ignoring to mention it even.We also suffer greatly from a lack of gear itemized for us. Warriors get 3 full tier sets for tanking, with one pseudo tank set ( Conqueror ) that also happens to have pieces that are superior for threat generation while also providing defensive stats.
Paladins have no such gear. We are instead forced to pick up off-pieces, most of the time worse itemized than the Warrior tier pieces. This is on top of our already much lower base health, and often the pieces that are Best in Slot is several tiers behind Warriors, meaning we not only have much lower health than Warriors, we also have lower Armor, and Warriors have 10% additional damage reduction from Defensive Stance.
As far for Armor concern , Paladin using Offset Items can also get Armor Cap = Damage Mitigation equal to Warriors.
Educate yourself how Gearing as Protection Paladin work!
Paladins also do have lot of Gear that can be used as Offensive , for Example Tier 2 Set have shit tons of Stamina , Armor . Same as Naxx Offset pieces and PVP Set do have lots of Stamina and Armor and can be used as Tanking.This problem gets even worse when you consider that a lot of gear Warriors can use have both Offensive and Defensive stats. Conqueror f.ex have hit, agi, str, defense and high stam. Because Warriors use physical stats to increase their threat generation they can often find all the stats they need in the same piece. When they cannot, the physical DPS gear they can equip often have very high stamina to begin with.
Warrior using DPS Gear is equal and same as sacrificing his Defense , which mean Paladin and Warrior are in the same boat , especially that in the Video you can educate yourself how Paladin reach beyond def cap and can compensate with DPS Gear (SP) for more threat without anything being sacrificed and using more Stamina instead!
Bullshit , Paladin threat is based on everything Spell and Physical !Paladin threat is not based on physical damage however.This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana.
Evidence is this :
(7 Minutes fight= 0 mana issues, there is no fight where you can do max threat that last for 7 minutes and those who are longer are with breaks where you can regen it!)
50% of Paladin threat comes from Physical damage!
Mitigation stat = damage reduction = Armor.Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats.
https://classicdb.ch/?item=16951
375 Armor
+21 Stamina
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 7.
Find me a single Warrior Piece that offers such high amount of Stamina Bracer and do provide high amount of Physical damage Stat !
And Warrior Abilities coefficients are what?SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
Limited to Weapon and Shield?!!!
Please straight your facts before you spill more nonsense , Paladins do scale with everything unlike you as Warrior who is limited to 2 Items!
I don't really need both of them , Judgement of Wisdom is enough and it does benefit to everyone , i don't need any special relying in order to Tank , but everything is welcome to be part of ,if not then why not ?Requiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
You do have Rage and you Rage starving , so you need Rage Pots in order to maintain a high threat too!Another big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown.
Not really , i do have Runes for Mana job, i can always use Greater Stoneshield Potion for additional 2000 Armor too!This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
Parry Haste 14% in Classic is going to Reckbomb the shit out of your Duel Wield and MCP Tank!This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Not really if you know how they work.Having mana also puts the Paladin at a severe disadvantage for certain bosses that have mechanics involving mana.
let me educate you , since you keep up facts from pservers and you do not describe them as Original Classic how they work , since you are clueless :Some examples are Vaelastrasz where Burning Adrenaline can prematurely target the Paladin tank,
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Vael only casts Burning Adrenaline in two scenarios: He will cast it on random mana users thruought the fight and he will cast it on the current tank every 45 seconds. 1 tank killed every 45 seconds for 3 minutes --> 3 / 0.75 = 4 tanks. When the MT is afflicted, healers must be ready to transition to the next tank while keeping the old one up at the same time untill the debuff kills him. Thus, the fight requires 4 tanks in a threat-building queue.
Regardless of how you see it or believe it , Main Tank is ALWAYS going to be affected by Burning Adrenaline each 45 seconds , even Warriors or Druids.
This is perfect example that you just use Creative Wall of Text and you spill thousands of false info and lies in very creative way , so people believing you !
You don't need any special spot , you already have a spot where Tanks are sitting and NOBODY stay there next to them , so nobody is getting affected by Hammer of Ragnaros, unless you are noob and have no fucking clue where Tank position suppose to be.Ragnaros where any mana user will randomly get hit by Hammer of Ragnaros, causing a knockback to any player within 20 yards of the Paladin. Anyone that has done Ragnaros will know how little space you already have in the tank zone on this boss. Having an additional positional requirement for offtanks just adds unecessary risk.
(Time to Education) :
Now , let me educate you that Fire Resistance Gear do cause knockbacks to resist , which mean you have 75% chance to resist (nearly full time) all of the Knockbacks!
That's not true , Improved LoH and Bubble is defensive cd , Imp LoH provide you 30% more Armor for 2 minutes, Bubble using /macro for instant removal = removes all deadly debuffs which are 100% dead for Warriors!There's also the obvious lack of defensive cooldowns when something does go wrong.
Nice cheap shots , you even mention the Paladin oh-crap buttons ,but you dodge them like no tomorrow.Shield Wall is amazing to get through a tough spot. Last Stand is also a great oh-crap button, and Warriors have access to Life Giving Gem. The only real defensive cooldown available to Paladins will be Glyph of Deflection, which is a trinket dropping from Sapphiron. But that is so late in the game that at which point, who cares.
Improved Lay on Hand for Paladin = 30% more Armor for 2 minutes + maximum HP filled + some mana if you have 0 mana + huge amount of aggro.
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Shield Wall = 75% damage reduction for few seconds , nothing else!
Bubble for Paladin = Immune to all sources of damage + you can /macro instant remove to clear all deadly debuffs.
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Last Stand = Increased HP Pool = Still you can die very easy and you are still vulnerable of Attacks
Life Giving Gem is Trinket that you need to obtain from BWL, not personal Skill , it work same as Last Stand.
VS
Glyph of Deflection = Huge amount of Block and Blocked damage , on top of that it does scale with Paladin Talent where Block Value is increased by 30% = HUGE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE REDUCTION.
Shield Wall is amazing, but it does last for few seconds and it is selfish , Improved Lay on Hand last for 2 minutes and can be used on everyone!And I know Duki will come back to argue that Shield Wall is not as good as having Lay on Hands, as the armor buff from lay on hands last 2 min. He always argue this point whenever it's brought up, but it's a nonsensical argument. I dont dispute Lay on Hands being good, but not only is it nowhere close to the 75% damage reduction provided by Shield Wall, but Lay on Hands can also be cast on other players. So really a Warrior will have both buffs.
Now since you brought this into a question = Why would i use 4 Warrior Tanks in Raid , where only 1 Shield Wall is going to be used (Main Tank) and where i can get 3 Improved lay on hands instead by other 3 Tanks (Who are going to be in Raid instead of Warrior) !?
So having more than 1 Warrior Tank in Raid = 0 Benefits by extra Shield Walls , having more than 1 Protection Paladin in Raid = huge benefits by extra Improved Lay on Hands!
Straight your facts before you spill nonsense.
It's not used only for debuffs, but also for deadly AoE moves , helpful situations like removing Crowd Control effects on Tank etc.Bubble is nice and all to remove certain debuffs, but there's not a lot of bosses where this is truly useful.
Example Hakkar = being mind controled = Bubble removes it , Jin'Do = beinging mind controlled = Bubble removes it , Neffarian Fear = Bubble removes it , KT Mindcontrol = Bubble removes it , Sapphiron Air Phase bomb = Bubble causes you to be immune etc etc , i can count until tomorrow!
It's not the issue that you are being negative, it's that you spill shit loads of missinformation and lies about Paladins and how they work.I apologize if this went on and on forever, and even though my post might sound very negative, I am passionate about Paladin tanks. I love playing one, and i think they have their use. They are certainly a good class for 5man. And they can do well in raids like ZG.
I don't dispute the negative aspects , but your intentions here are not to be negative or to sound negative , your sole intentions here are to shit on Paladin Protection !
Even vice versa , i can count until tomorrow fights where Paladin Tank is better than Warrior or Druid Tank!But at the end of the day, there is nothing a Paladin can tank that a Warrior or Druid cannot tank better.Perhaps the only exception in the entire game would be Heigan, where having Exorcism as a range pickup ability will put them at a slight advantage.
Paladins indeed are going to make faster smoother and clearer run with faster times! So why would i use Warrior 2nd-3rd-4th Tank and not Paladin which is 10 times better than Warrior during Trash Clearing etc.Paladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
Higher health pool yes , higher armor no = both are going to be armor cap , Paladins are better on threat output than a Warrior and that's fact!A Warrior will always have a higher health pool, higher armor, higher threat output than a Paladin.
I know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
In any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
Footage from Beta Library Tanking at level 40 with poor Gear, mobs does 35-50 damage.
This is me Nostalrius/Elysium/Lighthope Tanking at level 40 with good Gear, mobs does 100-120 damage.
Nothing better than pure Evidence.
Or the case you forget to mention :In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
Parry Haste is going to swallow your Shield Block tick much faster and with higher chance than a Paladin Holy Shield which can have Parry/Dodge in between.
This causes Warrior to be vulnerable on Crushing Blows and Crits if not Def capped!
Exactly what i am doing , i bring evidence for my claims and everything , so they can see correct and factual information .However I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information.
What you do = Words,Criticising with words, No Evidence , No Sources to backup your claims , denigrating the Class only , Lies and Missinformation!
I NEVER EVER SAID THAT!Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great.
Instead , it's you who put words in my mouth in order to justify own propaganda!
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I never said "Paladin is best Tank" , i always been telling that All Tanks are equal , but in diverse ways and do the same thing different way only.
I tell reality , but i never dare to force anyone to tell anyone to play Protection Paladin , who am i to tell what people should play or want to play?!All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
Unlike you i am telling the truth and how things work , not lying , but what people decide to play is their own Decisions!
Each decision bring own risk , since you forget to mention that Warrior Tanks are way too much and everyone still have a risk to not be invited into Raiding Guild once they realize the Tank spots are full! So we are in same boat with risks , but what people are going to decide it's not up to you or me to tell them what they want to choose ,it's up to them!
fearmongering , this is what you come out with , let the fuck people play what they want , stop using your propaganda once for all and be here to provide helpful hints and tips to those who really want to play , not to fear them of what they want to play!If you passionately want to play Paladin tank I say go for it. Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle,
Just be aware that its going to be a constant uphill battle, with very expensive consume requirements,
Single Elixir used , no Pots , no Runes , no any "expensive consume requirements" ..... Proof that you lie and bring false information!
Psojed already wrote something about it very nice :
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So, the "extreme minimum" to tank raid bosses is apparently a Flask, four Elixir-type consumables, 16 stamina food, full stack of Runes and Major mana potions. Care to explain how was killerduki able to tank raid bosses in his videos NOT using all these listed consumables? For example his Magmadar video, where he's using a single elixir from the list, no flask, no other consumables, no potion, no dark rune.
I believe someone mentioned something about "huge creative wall of text" earlier on this thread? *cough cough* @killerduki *cough cough*
Expect the worst. Hope for the best.
"We"? Psojed, though you have been much more civil than Duki, he was definitely saying that Paladins were the best tanks a few pages back. Quoted below:Psojed wrote: ↑5 years agoWe aren't telling anyone that Paladins are best tanks. So far this thread was all about dismantling the nonsense you guys have made up.
These are the points that are described here as Palatank problems, but they are in fact not problems:
- Mana issues when tanking
- Constant need for drinking after fight
- Lack of Taunt
- Lack of Defensive cooldowns
- Reliance on consumables
- Can't tank raid bosses
- Produces less threat than other tanks
Furthermore, it is for the very reasons you listed that Paladins "are not the best tanks". You admit they aren't here, but don't specify for what reasons they wouldn't be the best if mana isn't an issue, constant drinking isn't an issue, lack of taunt isn't an issue, cooldowns aren't an issue (they're just not very good cd's compared to warrior's), consumes aren't an issue, raid boss mechanics aren't an issue, and if less threat isn't an issue.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoAlright you little Prick , FIND ME A SINGLE THEORYCRAFT WEBSITE FROM 2005 OR 2006 WITH EVIDENCE THAT WARRIORS ARE BETTER TANKS THAN PALADINS! MAKE SURE IT IS EXPLAINED ON DETAILS WHY , NUMBERS AND ETC.
THEN COME HERE WITH YOUR CLAIMS THAT WARRIORS ARE MORE OPTIMAL THAN PALADINS ON TANKING!
If these weren't issues, Paladins would likely be at least in the same spot as Druids and happily tanking away for many more* guilds and dungeons. But they're not, and it has a lot to do with the reasons listed there that you say aren't problems.
*They rank last for popularity.
Hello Psojed. I have read your post, and I will attempt to address everything you said.
My point is that this is not the current private server behaviour for these spells. I'm sure SoR is intentional and meant to act similar to how melee is penalized by glancing, dodge and parry. Because this is not the case on private servers (where Duki's experiences come from) it means Prot will produce less threat in Classic than on these servers.Psojed wrote: ↑5 years agoI believe having partial and full resists more than counters the possible threat loss when compared to a Warrior's threat loss from dodges and parries. If you're up to it, you can do some number crunching on Threat loss from Warrior's dodges and parries vs. Palatank's Seal dodges/parries and partial and full resists from his other spells, but without numbers I'd say this doesn't make Palatanks inferior.
That is the current way it behaves on the Beta. If you find me a video of SoR proccing JoW from some old video ill change my position, but this is the current Beta behaviour of Judgement of Wisdom with SoR.Source?
JoWisdom is triggering from any melee hit and any spell hit from the whole raid, so not triggering from seal hits sounds like a bug. But you're the first person who says that it doesn't trigger from it. AFAIK Theloras and other spelladins tested SoR a lot, and I believe the only thing that wasn't triggering from SoR was Shadow Oil.
Theloras is not in the Beta btw. Our Spelladin tests are entirely done on private servers.
I have never said Paladins cannot tank in raids. But there are bosses that are straight up not doable with a Paladin, or where a Warrior/Druid would be a much better choice. This is contrary to Duki's claim that Paladins can tank every boss in the game.While this may be true, don't forget that any given raid will also have Warriors capable of using Taunt. Unless you're some special raid leader who wants to build a raid with absolutely no Taunt present, this shouldn't pose any significant problem. I don't know about you guys, but if a Palatank cannot tank one or two specific bosses because Blizzard didn't give him a Taunt, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't tank any boss EVER, or that they cannot be good at tanking.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoProt Paladins do suffer from a lot of other issues though. The first and most obvious is lack of a taunt ability. Some bosses straight up require a taunt in raids. Firemaw, Ebonroc, Flamegor, Fankriss and Four Horsemen. These bosses will be either extremely difficult without a taunt, or straight up undoable. On other bosses a taunt is not required, but a huge asset. Examples would be Sartura and C'Thun Giant Claw Tentacles.
Apart from this, more or less every trash mob in the game can be taunted, and with the amount of trash that exists within each raid I can guarantee you there will be times where a taunt is needed. Thats just the reality of the game. People cannot play perfectly forever.
Do you agree if I say having tanks capable of tanking every boss in a raid is better than having a tank that can only tank some? Unlike a Druid, a Paladin not currently tanking a boss is not capable of producing a lot of DPS, and without Illumination as a talent they will struggle to heal. That leaves swinging Nightfall which for Paladins have about a 40% uptime. A Protwarrior doing the same thing would have a 50% uptime on the debuff.
I disagree. I think Spellpower gear is entirely necessary. A Druid has infinite rage due to their mechanics, so not going to discuss them, but a Warrior gain rage by dealing damage, and by taking damage. Their abilities are only limited to how much rage they can generate, and by equipping more threat gear they will increase both rage from attacking and rage from taking damage.This is wrong. Tier sets for Palatanks are used merely as replacement for Deathbone gear. The reason is actually high armor and Stamina, not spell damage. Palatanks use Tier set pieces without avoidance stats, because there are no better options to choose from. The good off-set pieces that Palatanks can use become available only after AQ40 is raided, which is nearly at the end of a Tank's raiding career. The other option is using Deathbone set in AQ (which you still have to use there btw.). Again, this issue stems from the lack of itemization, not from having "terrible spell coefficients". Palatanks aren't actually forced to use spell damage armor gear to maintain threat in raids.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoPaladin threat is not based on physical damage however. It's mostly based on spells. This means our threat scales with Spellpower, and is limited by mana. Spellpower items typically have much lower stamina, and they never have mitigation stats. We also have absolutely terrible spell coefficients. SoR damage gets increased by 10% of our Spellpower, Holy Shield by 5% per Block. Consecration is 4% per tick. Even with very high levels of spellpower the threat scaling is just really poor compared to what a Warrior and Druid can pull by taking an equal loss in mitgation.
As a Warrior tank progress through the content they will rarely have rage issues. This is due to the fact that on lower tier content they can dualwield tank, and on higher tier content they currently do not overgear, they will be taking enough damage to sustain their rage regardless.
This is very different from a Paladin tank. Every single threat producing ability of the Paladin is on a cooldown. Judgement is 8/10 seconds, Holy Shield is 10 seconds, Consecration is 8 seconds. No matter how much gear a Paladin gets, their ability to dish out more threat never increases. They can improve the amount of time they are able to sustain a high threat rotation, but they will never produce more threat as they gear up, unless they go for spellpower.
This means a Paladin in full best in slot AQ40/Naxxramas gear will produce the exact same amount of threat as a Paladin wearing full green gear from 5mans. Only by increasing spellpower, or by having a weapon such as Thunderfury (super unrealistic) will the threat go up.
So just so its clear. A Paladin not stacking Spellpower will NEVER be able to hold aggro against a raid with optimal debuff usage, proper consumes and who all know what they are doing. They just wont.
And this bring me back to my previous point, which is that Spellpower gear is not that well itemized for tanking. Your T1 is garbage. Doesnt help tanking in any way. That leaves T2 and T2.5 as your threat gear. The problem is both these sets have considerably lower stamina than a Warrior's tier sets. Where a Warrior would be using Tier sets mixed with offensive offpieces (also with high stamina) a Paladin need to use T2 and T2.5 in his/her gear, and rely on defensive mitigation offpieces, which again typically either have the same or lower stamina than plate DPS gear a Warrior can tank would be using.
There's some bosses you dont want Judgement of Wisdom. Especially in MC and BWL there's barely any fights apart from Nef where you would want one. You also cannot rely on a Holy Paladin always being able to keep up the Judgement.Holy paladins often spec into Lasting Judgement to be able to provide JoW for the raid. The reason is mana longevity for progression and faster clears. I don't see a problem here. Having a Ret pala in your group as Tankadin greatly boosts your threat generation thanks to the Sanctity Aura (+10% holy dmg). That being said, JoW can be replaced by consumables.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoRequiring Judgement of the Crusader and Judgement of Wisdom to both always be maintained on the boss is also an obvious downside as the Prot can only maintain one of these by himself, meaning you rely on either a Ret Pala or Holy Pala to provide and keep up the other Judgement.
I agree with you a Retpala is great to have in the group of the Protpala, but it's a huge obvious disadvantage regardless. Instead of your tank group being Tank, Tank, Tank, Warlock, Paladin, you now need two tank groups so the Paladin tank can get both Sanctity Aura, Devotion Aura and Blood Pact. This also mean the second tank group need 3 friggin Paladins (The Prot needs Ret aura too), and you will need the Ret to take a DPS loss from not being in another stacked melee group.
Not true. I am sorry, but you really need this mana regeneration to function. A Protpala typically have under 3000 mana. You cannot sustain your threat unless you get every last piece of mana regen you can. Especially true when you get into Naxxramas and you need to incorporate Exorcism into your rotation.That being said, JoW can be replaced by consumables.
You are not thinking about this the right way. Paladins require Mana Potions just to produce their regular standard threat rotation. A Protpala chugging mana pots can probably produce similar threat to a full Protection Warrior, but in this case the Protwarrior have the advantage of a higher base armor from being able to use better itemized gear in the first place, on top of 2000 armor from the pot, on top of 10% damage reduction from def stance.This is also wrong. Firstly, the ability to tank a raid boss without consumables usage was already showcased previously.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoAnother big problem the class face is that unlike a Warrior, we have Mana. In order to maintain a high threat rotation you rely on using Major Mana Potion on cooldown. This means our potion cooldown is used up by mana pots, and we cannot maintain a Greater Stoneshield Potion for an additional 2000 Armor like a Warrior can.
This potion is what enables Warriors to go Dualwield for tanking, putting their threat output on the same level as a Druid with Manual Crowd Pummelers and ensuring the raid group can clear the dungeon fast and efficiently.
Secondly, even if Palatanks needed to drink mana potions on cooldown, your whole Stoneshield Potion vs. Mana Potion argument is moot, as Palatank never loses the benefits of his shield.
Warrior's total armor would be smaller, because even Draconian Deflector has more armor than a Stoneshield potion. It is the drawback of a Warrior. His TPS is capped, and you need to trade avoidance and armor from the shield for more TPS. Palatanks don't do that. Stoneshield Potion is used by Warriors to mitigate the armor lost by NOT using a Shield or not using Defensive stance. In other words, this is additional 2000 armor for the Paladin.
When you say Paladins have 2000 additional armor, you are not being entire honest in your comparison.
Where your dualwield argument fails is that you assume Dualwield tanking is required to produce the same TPS as a Paladin tank. It's not. Dualwield tanking is used to push your threat ceiling much much higher, to allow for DPS to go all out and reduce clear times and kill times of the raids and bosses. Dualwield is not required, but it's a major advantage that Paladins dont have an equivalent to.
There is simply never a case where a Protpaladin have higher armor than a Warrior UNLESS you are comparing a Protpala to a Dualwield Warrior, but thats not a fair comparison as the threat ceiling of a DW Warrior is miles beyond what a Paladin is capable of producing. If your guild is going for lightning fast killspeeds you will not be running a Protpala.
I'm not even going to bother with this. If you cannot see why having the entire tank group get knocked away on Ragnaros, or having the Paladin get blown up 15 seconds into the Vael fight is bad then me explaining it is not going to change your view here. My point was that using a Paladin tank bring additional RNG into the raid that you would not have had to deal with using another tank class.I got hit by Hammer of Rag several times as Ret paladin. In a group of melees. It never caused any serious issues for the raid.
Getting randomly targeted by Burning Adrenaline is not a disadvantage of the Palatank or Pala class, it is simply one of the fight mechanics. The same way some fights are not melee-friendly, some fights are not manauser-friendly. But you can still do it.
The exact same thing applies to a Warrior. They can also use a wide variety of threat trinkets. HoJ, Blackhand's Breadth, DFT, Kiss of the Spider, etc.Glyph of Deflection isn't a Paladin-specific ability. Same as the trinket. If we're talking trinkets, then Palatanks can instead use trinkets which greatly boost their TPS generation.
The difference here is Paladins have NO on demand damage mitigation abilities available to them outside of Glyph of Deflection.
Btw, a 100% heal wont help you live through Maexxna web wrap making the final web wrap entirely RNG compared to simply using Shield Wall and running no risk of the tank dying. Chromaggus getting frenzied while the Hunter is stunned from bronze affilction is also a really good time for Shield Wall, or multiple other scenarios where incoming damage is temporarily high or the healers are not able to heal for whatever reason such as being out of range on Ouro, or someone dying at a bad time or during enrage of Huhuran. Shield Wall is simply much much better than anything a Paladin can bring as it can almost entirely negate something going wrong by providing plenty time for the raid to recover. Lay on Hands will heal you up once, then you keep taking full damage.
I already explained this and part of the explanation is even in then quote you linked. You require an extra debuff slot ( crusader ), you require someone to pull for you ( Grenades have slow travel times ). You require really weird group compositions such as needing a Retpaladin AND another Holypaladin in you group as well as a second SM/Ruin warlock for Blood Pact instead of that Warlock being able to go DS/Ruin for more DPS. So yes, the raid very much has to work around your weaknesses.Yet you have never proven that raid has to work around a Palatank's weakness. Nor did the people before you. This is just made-up bullshit, sorry.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoPaladins have great AoE threat, but their problem is they will always require the raid to work around their weaknesses to make it work, which means the raid overall will suffer from lower DPS, and from having to use debuff slots and class compositions to support the tank rather than focusing those efforts on getting faster, smoother, clear times.
Have you actually raided a a Paladin?
This is where I am starting to get a bit annoyed. I addressed the armor argument already in this post, so you can go read that. As for the third point, Threat.Health - True, because of lacking Palatank itemization.
Armor - False, you mentioned dual-wielding Warrior for TPS generation.
Threat - False, it is your assumption that Paladin cannot generate more TPS than a Warrior. Prove it.
Paladins cannot produce more threat than a Warrior. The classes have been tried and tested for 15 years, and literally nobody has ever posted any math to back up Paladins being better at generating threat than Warriors or Druid. Nobody.
So you have no right to tell me to prove this. The burden of proof is on YOU and it's quite frankly tiring to keep hearing unsubstantiated claims repeated as gospel.
http://www.kurai.com/wow/naxx/maexxna.jpgSource?Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoThere's also strong evidence that bosses in Classic will have 0 armor after debuffs are applied which will greatly increase the threat produced by physical DPS in raids. This armor reduction also scale better for Warriors than for Paladins, and on top of the other nerfs to the Paladin class compared with private servers, this will make Paladins a suboptimal choice for any guild looking to progress through the content as the gap between Warriors and Paladins will increase even further than on private servers.
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Armor reducing abilities:
Sunder Armor: 2250
Faerie Fire: 505
Curse of Recklessness: 640
Annihilator: 600
That's a total armor reduction of 3995.
Which is exactly my point. Paladins do not benefit from reduced boss armor. On the other hand, every melee class do which means melee will be producing more threat than they already do on private servers which puts Paladins at an even further disadvantage.And how exactly does armor being reduced to 0 or not matter to Paladins? Palatanks ignore armor, holy damage, remember?
You assume there's high quality videos with clearly visible buffs and debuffs from the point of view of the Maintank for every boss in the game recorded in 2006. Obviously this is not the case.Buffs/debuffs that have an effect on damage taken are visible on the tank. The only debuff that comes to mind which is on the boss is Curse of Recklessness and that wasn't a commonly used debuff.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoI know Duki claimed that damage values are off on private servers, and that bosses do 3-4x as much damage. This is obviously nonsense as you can go recheck any old raiding video to see the numbers more or less match the damage values on private servers. Some comparisons I have done myself show a difference of 10-15% higher damage on private servers compared to Vanilla but without knowing the exact buffs, debuffs, build and gear used in the old videos it's difficult to say for certain.
Random unsubstantiated claim. The Rage formula is well known for Vanilla. This has to do with the fact that tank threat was heavily theorycrafted back in 2005/2006. The only true difference between private server and Classic rage generation is the differences in weapon skill and boss Parry rates.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoIn any case, this will have an almost negligible impact on rage generation. It will make a much smaller difference than SoR not proccing Judgement of Wisdom like on private servers f.ex.
Rage generation is the most commonly bugged thing on private servers AFAIK. And 9% smaller chance to hit a boss is a pretty big deal if you ask me.In either case, bosses having 9% additional Parry in Classic will not really affect the outcome. If anything it just means Warriors pull even further ahead as their higher health pool and armor lets them more easily soak up the extra damage from hasted parries. Weapon skill also become an option for Warrior tanks in Classic.
You listing all the problems with the class and claiming they are not a problem doesnt make it true. Have you actually played a Paladin tank? Have you actually tried to tank raids? I have. I have raid tanked on Warrior, Druid and Paladin ( admittedly not that extensively as a Paladin) so I feel I have a good base to compare them all on.We aren't telling anyone that Paladins are best tanks. So far this thread was all about dismantling the nonsense you guys have made up.Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoHowever I think we have the responsibility to make sure players go into Classic with correct and factual information. Going around telling everyone that Paladins are the best tanks in the game when there's not a shred of evidence supporting this is not great. All it will lead to is a bunch of players rolling Paladin, leveling to 60 and then quitting when they realize they were lied to all along, and I think its incredibly selfish to do this out of some inability to admit flaws with the spec you love.
These are the points that are described here as Palatank problems, but they are in fact not problems:
- Mana issues when tanking
- Constant need for drinking after fight
- Lack of Taunt
- Lack of Defensive cooldowns
- Reliance on consumables
- Can't tank raid bosses
- Produces less threat than other tanks
All these problems are very real. If you claim they are not real problems then I can only conclude you actually never tanked on a Paladin, or you tanked in a really bad raid with low DPS which means both Mana and Threat issues of the Paladin disappear entirely.
Paladins can work in a more casual guild, yes. But they are objectively worse than Warrior or Druid.
The knowledge shows! I enjoy reading your posts, Holyfrog, and hope you find great success in whatever spec you play come Classic.
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The link you posted takes me back to page 3 in this topic, which starts with killerduki's post:Linguine wrote: ↑5 years ago"We"? Psojed, though you have been much more civil than Duki, he was definitely saying that Paladins were the best tanks a few pages back. Quoted below:
killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoAlright you little Prick , FIND ME A SINGLE THEORYCRAFT WEBSITE FROM 2005 OR 2006 WITH EVIDENCE THAT WARRIORS ARE BETTER TANKS THAN PALADINS! MAKE SURE IT IS EXPLAINED ON DETAILS WHY , NUMBERS AND ETC.
THEN COME HERE WITH YOUR CLAIMS THAT WARRIORS ARE MORE OPTIMAL THAN PALADINS ON TANKING!
So @Linguine you're saying that duki advocated that "Paladin is best", but you linked to a page which says the exact opposite. Then you quoted a post which doesn't say "paladin is best". Contradicting yourself?
On the contrary, I DO specify in my posts which statements throughout this thread were correct, in other words, which shortcomings stated here are real for Tankadins. For those which I believe are INCORRECT, I ask for proofs, examples or explanations.
Psojed wrote: ↑5 years agoWarrior T1/T2 bracers. They have more STR and more STAM. Probably not as good as 7 spelldmg for pally threat generation, but still pretty damn close.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agohttps://classicdb.ch/?item=16951
375 Armor
+21 Stamina
Equip: Increases damage and healing done by magical spells and effects by up to 7.
Find me a single Warrior Piece that offers such high amount of Stamina Bracer and do provide high amount of Physical damage Stat !
I don't think this is a good comparison. Glyph is from Naxx (P6) vs. BWL trinket (P3).For a long time you won't have the trinket, and when you do get it, Warriors can get it too.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoLife Giving Gem is Trinket that you need to obtain from BWL, not personal Skill , it work same as Last Stand.
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Glyph of Deflection = Huge amount of Block and Blocked damage , on top of that it does scale with Paladin Talent where Block Value is increased by 30% = HUGE AMOUNT OF DAMAGE REDUCTION.
Again the real issue is itemization, because Warrior Tier sets passively provide big amounts of shield block value.
T1 3/8 set bonus ... +30
T2 shoulder ... +27
T2 feet ... +18
Our 30% bonus is great, but it's lower than the sum available for Warriors from their Tier sets. And their gear passively provides STR, which also increases block amount, even if by only very small amounts. They block more damage.
How?
I believe Palatanks will have less armor because we are going to be using Deathbone parts up until AQ40, while Warriors will be using their respective Tier sets, which give more armor.
That's not true , part of it .How?
I believe Palatanks will have less armor because we are going to be using Deathbone parts up until AQ40, while Warriors will be using their respective Tier sets, which give more armor.
Here is a list for every aspect of Gearing up and why lack of Itemization is wrong , proven in this Video and explained in the Video . Tho you can mute it if sound disturb you , but see the written description about it inside.
Keep in Mind there is Armor Cap and using Greater Stoneshield Potion bring you almost to Armor Cap for early stages and makes you Armor Cap for Mid/End Stages , but even tho , not every Boss are high Physical damage (Except Pservers which have this thing wrong scripted like Nost/Ely/LH and do 4 times higher than Original Classic) , which mean , only some specific Bosses do require Armor Cap , the rest are mainly "resistance" requirement , especially in Early Stages.
Example :
Magmadar = FR
Gehenas = SR/FR
Lucifron = FR
Baron Geddon = FR
Garr = AC
Majordomo = FR/SR
Golemagg = FR/AC
Ragnaros = FR
Shahraz = AR
perhaps i missed some?
FR = Fire Resistance for easy kill , SR = Shadow Resistance for easy kill , AC = Armor Cap for easy kill , AR = Armor Resistance for easy kill etc..
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http://paladin-guide.blogspot.com/2005/ ... ments.htmlPsojed wrote: ↑5 years agoSource?
JoWisdom is triggering from any melee hit and any spell hit from the whole raid, so not triggering from seal hits sounds like a bug. But you're the first person who says that it doesn't trigger from it. AFAIK Theloras and other spelladins tested SoR a lot, and I believe the only thing that wasn't triggering from SoR was Shadow Oil.
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Seals and judgements combos
A simple list of standard combination of seals and judgements that every paladin should know:
JotC ---> SoC (judge crusader for an augmented SoC damage)
JotC ---> SoR (judge crusader for an augmented SoR damage)
JoW ---> SoR (judge wisdom and then go to SoR for a double chance to regenerate mana every hit)
JoL ---> SoR (judge wisdom and then go to SoR for a double chance to regenerate health every hit)
SoJ then on proc SoC ---> JoC (for maximum damage JoC effect)
JoJ ---> SoC or SoR (keep that mob from escaping while dealing damage)
Evidence that SoR suppose to proc Judges
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He heavily implied he will not accept Warriors as the best tank or that they are better than Paladins without an arbitrary and practically impossible request for proof from forums more than a decade ago.
You left off the rest of his post that you quoted:
This is just another way of saying Paladins can be the best tanks and on par with Warriors and Druids. They cannot.killerduki wrote: ↑5 years agoI never said "Paladin is best Tank" , i always been telling that All Tanks are equal ,
If he wants to officially recant it, admit he was wrong, and say Paladins are the 3rd best tank in last place he is free to do so.
However, he sure doesn't sound like he's agreeing with Stfuppercut, Holyfrog, and me.
Give me a list right now of what you consider to be the true shortcomings of Protection Paladins.
If you say itemization though, I would like to point out that Itemization is the disease and poor mana, poor threat, drinking all the time, low health, low mitigation, and consumable reliance are the symptoms. Just because it can be rolled up into one word doesn't mean there is only one thing wrong.
As for incorrect claims, the burden of proof is on you.
I was waiting for it and already wrote how things work , but due to TLDR seems you didn't seen it!Psojed wrote: ↑5 years agoWhile this may be true, don't forget that any given raid will also have Warriors capable of using Taunt. Unless you're some special raid leader who wants to build a raid with absolutely no Taunt present, this shouldn't pose any significant problem. I don't know about you guys, but if a Palatank cannot tank one or two specific bosses because Blizzard didn't give him a Taunt, it doesn't mean that they shouldn't tank any boss EVER, or that they cannot be good at tanking.
Four Horsemen :
Thats the only excuse everyone always bring.
Its hard for paladin but doable still.
1 of the horse you can tank with 2 tanks soaking 8 debuffs
While as paladin you will make threat , as warrior you will just taunt until 8th mark without threat making.
Each mark reduce tank threat when it hit
Which mean at the end when 8th mark hit the warr, he dont taunt and pala will have the aggro.
The horse with holy damage is the one you can do as pala and 1 tank
Its hardest fight , but still doable for pala tank
The debuffs which 4hm lands to the Tank , reduces his Aggro down by 25% (unless pservers bug) .
Which mean when Warrior Taunt , he doesn't do much threats and at the last debuff , he doesn't do any threats and he is going to be 2nd on Aggro when debuff land, that how Automatically Paladin is going to take over the Horse.
You can survive up to 8 Debuffs, Well as i said , it is hardest fight for Paladin Tank and most Challenging, but not impossible. If you rotate with 8 debuffs, it is going to have time to use only 2 tanks for 1 Horse (easiest is top right) . While rest of 6 tanks rotate thru the other 3 horses ignoring the horse you tank. When other Tanks kill 1 of the Horses, they simply assist you and job done.
Or repeating as better explanation :
Let me Begin:
The most easiest of them is either the Shadow (top left) or Holy (top right) Horse .
You as a Paladin , using BiS Gear, all consumes and world Buffs , can manage to grow and have up to 14k HP or more.
Which mean , you are now able to tank (with some efforts) and handle 8 Debuffs from the horse.
How the Rotation and strategy work , together with 1 Tank (it will be hard for Healers, but doable) Warrior or Druid , who is able to Taunt, you can 2 Tank one of these 2 horses, since their normal damage is weak , but debuffs are only strong dmg taken.
First you as Paladin go there and Tank up to 6 debuffs (each of them reduce threats) and burn the whole mana trying to build massive amount of threats (exorcism ftw).
Once you get 6 debuffs, the Warrior runs and Taunt it from you (same rule by debuffs apply to him) , while he make extra tiny threats in order to take and keep the target from you , he should not do threats,but enough to keep the horse on him without making more than 110% threats compare to Paladin (control over threats).
Once the Warrior goes up to 7 Debuffs (exact time when the Paladin debuffs are about to gone) he uses Last Stand or Shield Wall , so he can manage to survive the 8th without causing problem to healer, for the last debuff he simply not making threats.
Once the last debuff hit the Warrior , thanks to aggro reducing by each mark , the Warrior is going to loose his threats and the Horse will automatically run back to the previous Tank (Paladin) who will be taking over from the Warrior with Exorcism and Judgement.
The Paladin then , can manage to tank up to 8 Debuffs with all cd's and Priest Bubble on him in order to Absorb and Survive the last one.
And vise versa with Warrior taking over at the end.
(challenging,but doable,never impossible)
Until the second time Paladin take over up to 8 debuffs (building up massive threats), the group already had like nearly 3 minutes spend, by that time , they should already killed one of the horses , which mean , you have extra tanks that are going to make it easy and take over this Horse too for lesser debuffs.
The Healers threats in this case it will never be any problem , since they constantly loose their threats by swapping and get the first 4 debuffs .
The only Place , this might not work is Private Servers , if they don't have this properly scripted.
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3 Drakes and particulary Firemaw :
Have Warrior Taunting you when Drake is about to use his Ability called (Wing Buffed) , let the Warrior or Druid (whoever is going to Taunt you) sit on the right side of the Boss (or left , opposite from you). Once he Taunt and then Boss use his Ability "Wing Buffed" , he is going to loose threat and you will remain with your original threat , then Boss will return back to you automatically.
- Wing Buffet = reduce threat by 25% toward the Main Target (In Pservers this is bugged and it wipes more than 50% or full amount of threat) . (he does that Ability each
Make sure Offtank taunt you 10 Seconds before "Wing Buffed" Ability from Boss is used in case he resist, so he will have a chance to Mocking Bow or re use 2nd time Taunt .
That mean you only need Fire Resistance Gear , so you can resist 75% of his Debuffs, which makes you Tank/Spank that Boss without risk of loosing Aggro (if Offtanks Taunt you in time correctly) .
Fight is simple , have Offtank taunting you for Wing Buffeds and enjoy being Main Tank.
This same rule apply for all 3 drakes , only difference between 1/2 and 3rd Drake is that at 1/2 you need Fire Resistance Gear while at 3rd Drake you need Shadow Resistance Gear and Mortal Strike on Boss (welcome) .
Use DBM Addon , it shows you timing for Wing Buffet.
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Satura and her adds will occasionally reset aggro for several seconds and start chasing random people for a duration of 5 seconds. After those 5 seconds they will return to the highest aggro target, so as long as you don't pull aggro off of the tank they will go back to him.
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Sure :Holyfrog wrote: ↑5 years agoAs for the sunken temple video. The target is 1 level higher, and the Paladins does a total of SIX swings. This doesnt prove anything. With only 1 level difference and a total of 6 attacks, the probability of seeing a partial resist would be extremely low. Your post too honestly too long to address, but this is exactly what I was trying to say with my previous post. You simply have no understanding of how evidence works, so debating with you is entirely pointless.
Raids = no Partial Resist , Scholomance = no Partial Resist.
Even tho it's hard to see, using slow mode 0.25 from the HTML by Youtube , you can see every bit of the Video!
Even 1 lvl higher apply to the rule of = Partial Resist!
Even with 6 swings and 1 lvl higher , same rule <24 Resistance apply = which mean you will ANYWAY Resist!
Beta doesn't mean it can't be bugged, but since all sources says and proves it should never resist then 0 resistance suppose to be!
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