I just read on another site that warrior shield wall is getting reduced to a 5min cooldown but having its damage reduction reduced to 50% to compensate (from 75% i think). First, does anyone know if this is true, and secondly, does it make any other Paladin tanks feel sick?
We seem to be getting lots of threat buffs in WotLK but nothing that really helps us mitigate damage to the level a warrior can now, let alone what they will be able to do in Northrend. With fights like Brutallus next on the agenda for my guild I face a stong possibility of being benched until he is on farm as we have 2 well geared warrior tanks, a well geared druid tank (all full BT T6) and me. Normally I would go healing but because it's my offspec they are gonna wanna take the pally healers who heal as mainspec cause their healing gear is better than mine.
I know they say paladins niche is AoE tanking but I would really love it if Blizz showed us some proper love and let us be as viable maintanks on progression raids. If warrior shield wall really is being buffed to a 5min cooldown it really feels like a kick in the teeth to tankadins.