The choice of tank has nothing to do with its power. It has to do with its power in combination with 4 other specs.
Its a meta COMP. Not a meta tank.
If you were to choose the best tank by performance, you would pick Warrior. If you were to pick the best healer by performance, you would pick MW or RS.
But you DONT. Because VDH buffs FMage (that hits hard) and DuDu (that also hits hard). And both those specs also have buffs of their own, tripple diping in “buffing eachother”.
Not neceserelly.
It depends on the power of such meta. If its a small power then yes. It dosent matter.
If the powerup of that particular comp is really high, then no.
The very top 0.1% are not the whole playerbase.
There are still quite some people that play between +10 and 0.1% title that suffer the consequences. Because while you can technically do a +12 or +13 with whatever comp you choose, at those levels the “meta comp” power starts to be noticeble.
Its not like the community is split into two: 1000 people doing +22s and “everyone else” farming +7s for guilded crests. There are people in between you know?
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just be silent with the Saying ’ U NEVER GOT 3K so u are bad’ even if someone has 1 K Rating they can still have their opinion.
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foes it matter whos fault it is? there are more fotm players in this game than not. so if bdks are meta you have tons of them in a +10 as well
Wasn’t the case that VDHs weren’t viable last season cause they cannot move when cast Eye-beam but the dungeon pool needed hyper mobility?
Nah, prot pala was part of the meta comp in S1 because it had the most outgoing damage by far, and it was sturdy enough to survive in higher keys with help of disc priests.
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I mean I’m fine seeing different classes shine season by season. I wish Guardian to be king all the time but it would be pretty boring after a while.
I’m fine having a meta build, what I’m against is the elitism and inviting meta classes just for the sake of it, no matter how low the key is.
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A guardian druid was just recently the second highest rated tank in the world, do they can’t be that bad.
Yeah, the stupid belief that meta actually helps in a +12 pug is ridiculous, since people can’t synergize well enough to gain as much from it.
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thats not true. because people prefer DH even in low keys just because everyone is brainwashed somehow that DH is the best tank…
last season after pala rework it was all about paladins - mostly due to milion interupts they were doing.
before it it was warriors cause super sturdy or bears for big pulls.
paradoaly - S1 of DF was … exactly the same
VDH were meta in like S3 of DF last time
Thank you for agreeing with me meta is nonsense for 99+% of the playerbase.
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I was a believer in Blood DK thinking it could hold its own in high keys but after trying out a Prot paladin I finally get it when people say blood DK doesn’t work. Prot Paladin just makes Blood DK look like it’s snoozing through the content in M+. The utility and just the overall tankiness they bring is on another level compared to DKs. It’s honestly kind of sad how much better Prot Paladin is right now in high keys. RIP to the DK dreams.
Any non dps meta is unhealthy because people just want to go boom boom
Meta in low keys is (usually) the height of entitlement and the zenith of stupidity. If you´re doing MDI pulls just for the lulz then it can be fun to roflstomp everything, but if you´re not then you´re actually gimping yourself more often than not…
I still “fondly” remember a +4 Tazavesh streets in shadowlands S4… BDK invites a Healpally, destrolock, SV hunter and a (Sub? cant remember which spec was meta at the time) rogue.
Total blaster comp, right? We should be through in under 10 minutes just aeing the entire dungeon in maybe 10 total pulls…
Dumbarse then proceeds to do 3-4 mob pulls the entire dungeon, constantly flaming the Destro and SV for not pulling their weight…the rogue was blasting, though.
FFS, with pulls that small they didn´t even start to shine, much less have useful buttons to press.
And this is why if you´re not playing at a high key level and pulling accordingly, so that the meta specs actually become useful, meta is complete horse 
He would have been twice as fast if not more if he had invited a frostmage and an arms warrior instead of the destro and SV… and as brain-dead as he was, then he probably would have been pulling half the dungeon at once and wondering why things are taking forever to die 
blizzard doesn’t care they care all about purple not pink.
i think paladin is busted but its their first time
Good to hear that, I’m gonna get back to tank m+ sooner or later. As I’ve mentioned before somewhere else, even tho I’m not the best guardian, never had issues with either getting invites or surviving in dungeons.