Tank DH and M+

Hello lada. Got a questiin before i would start thinking about being tank.
Does DH tank is any good on higher keys? Higher mean hmm 13+ 15 +?
Dont need to be best but is he any viable?

Viable - Yes
Hard work on the rest of the group - Yes

My 418 VDH takes way more damage then my 405 warrior, and 410 paladin. Does about 1/2 - 2/3 of the damage of a Prot war too. If you play with mates it’s cool, if you plan on pugging, it’ll be rough.

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8.2 starting next week and I believe we will be much more tankier with the buffs and essence system, so perhaps a good time to get into it, especially as we will be a more viable option now for the higher keys

8.2 is deffo not next week. It’s still on PTR, so atleast 3 weeks :tired_face:

Dude you need to catch up with events

“Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara Releases on June 25th”

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Next week mate

Yeah seen just after I posted haha! Thank god it’s next week

Don’t get ya hoped up for the buffs. They’ve just added soul cleave+20% damage, but it does under half of spirit bomb lol. Another absolutely clueless buff from blizz.

DH are still bottom tank on 8.2 PTR, still the squishiest by a mile. Theres a huge post on 8.2 PTR on US forum. It’s worth a read. Still in a very bad place compared to the rest of tanks.

Not what you guys want to hear (and me included, VDH was my main).

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I don’t agree . I feel the buffs will have a positive impact on a more consistent health pool and the essences haven’t even been fully explored yet so can’t say what impact they will have but I don’t think it’s doom and gloom I love playing VDH

Deffo not doom and gloom, I mean right now VDH have done 20 keys, and mythic raiding.

The class ones are released to see. It’s exactly the same for all tanks. 3 min CD on one, use half resources. And others chance on hit to go into meta/avatar/wings etc for half it’s duration.

I would love for VDH to become competitive to other tanks cuz I genuinely like playing VDH, but I’m afraid the gap would get even wider between VDH and top tanks in 8.2 for one simple reason - essences. While prot war/pala, maybe even BDK, will most likely use offensive essences the VDHs will most likely have to use defensive ones. We are still wet paper outside of Spikes.

Of course it all depends on what you aim at. VDHs will be perfectly capable of doing +15s and even higher with top notch play. But then again why not make your life easier and play another tank :smiley:

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na stick whit pala and port war for time beign also druids wierdly eugh

I will give my DH a chance again in 8.2. At least if VDH still sucks compared to protection paladin, havoc is a fun and decent DPS spec.

I am very doubtful that the 8.2 VDH changes are enough, though. Soul Cleave is still a useless skill and VDH mobility is not valuable enough to make up for the lack of other qualities.

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