New Changes for Warrior Tanking in Cataclysm

Cataclysm has brought a lot of major changes to warrior tanking that are designed to help restore tanks as the best at generating agro and holding it in the game, just as they were in the beginning. As all tanks know, warriors have suffered at the hands of the Nerf God starting with Burning Crusade and carrying on through Wrath of the Lich King. Thanks to new Rage Normalization system along with a slew of new or redesigned abilities, skills and talents, Protection Tanks are finally able to do their jobs. 

Up until the release of Cataclysm every other type of tank has been able to do the same job as a Protection Tank, only better. There has been something wrong with this picture and Blizzard has finally decided that warrior tanking should return to where it belongs, firmly in the hands of the Protection warrior. Depending on how well you play your warrior this can be a blessing or a curse. For those who have relied heavily on their gear to carry them through a fight, you may not like what has happened.

On the other hand, for those who have spent their time in the trenches, like we all did in Vanilla WoW, the changes are going to give you the chance to show how good you really are. Everyone got stamina increase in their gear to increase their health and keep the healers happy, for the tank this means a longer lifespan especially as the health levels of the NPCs have been modified to suit the changes making the warrior tank a valuable asset in any raid once again. 

One big change that is proving to help with warrior tanking is how their block rating has been modified. Up until now your gear has had its own Block Rating, as you may have noticed this is one of the biggest changes to gear as most of the gear buffs are gone for all classes. Instead you have a standard block rating that gives you 30% block against damage done, so the more damage you take the more you can block. 

So far there have been no signs that Blizzard has any intentions of nerfing the tanking warrior, however we will have to wait and see how long it takes before everyone else starts to complain. The whole idea was to give the job of main tank back to the warrior where it belongs and the changes in Cataclysm have done just that.

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