Blade barrierFollow

I don’t come to allakhazan often so if this question has been asked before my apologies. Just copy paste the answer and I’d be happy ^_^.

Anyway the question is, Blade Barrier (blood tree): Was changing 10% parry chance to 5% damage reduction a buff or a nerf?

I need to know because I plan on tanking end-game. I’ve asked people in-game and some say its better some say its worse and I don’t know what to think so I came here. I personally prefer the 10% parry.

I’m 75 so I’d like to hear from the 80s what’s up.

Thats my build down there if you need it for anything, pretty good dps with a 2 hand and I can tank as well. I'll change to a more solid tank build once i hit 80.

http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=jcxMVZG0xxIxbRhoVoso0x


Edited, Mar 27th 2009 5:18pm by Dmadmike

I imagine a boss would have to be attacking pretty damn fast for it to become a buff.

Remember, a parry nullifies the attack, so you take no damage. So, if you parry 10% more, that is quite a bit of damage mitigated.

5% reduction to all isn't bad, but it isn't as good as Parry.

[EDIT]

And, about Theo's comment, remember that Parry only functions when facing the target, so only that incoming damage gets more mitigation.

The 5% works in any direction, making it even better.

Plus, you can't parry magic attacks (well, most specs can't "parry" magic attacks).

And Avoiding 5% of an AP+PoM is a lot of mitigation.

Edited, Mar 27th 2009 8:43pm by idiggory

Yeah, that was horrible reasoning on my part.

Part of me wishes they just made it a crapton of +parry rating for 10 seconds, so it would be subject to DR, instead of changing it like this.

Hell, I wish they just made it 5% Parry instead of 10%.

I'm gonna miss it. :'(