Why not Foul Bulwark and max stam

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I can’t get my head around it. Why does nobody play foul bulwark. Especially when the logic behind Blood DK is having as much health as possible because you have no damage mitigation and you should be healing yourself AFTER sustaining damage with Death Strike. Having Foul Bulwark boosts your health massively thus allowing you to sustain far more damage thus giving you time to recharge runes and runic power for more healing by Death Strike, Worms or even Voracious. I mean the healing and rune power generation by the rest of the talents in the same row is abysmal at best. Seems to me that majority of people playing BDK are hell bent on the playstyle of the rest of the tank classes whereas all of them have VERY different logic and playstyle behind them due to them having passive or proactive damage mitigation abilities whereas BDKs have reactive damage mitigation.

Foul Bulwark synergizes VERY well with the rest of the talents as I said like Blood Worms, Voracious, Will of the Necropolis (having more health makes it far less risky to stay at 35% health), Bonestorm, Relish in Blood(Vampiric Blood), hell even Mark of Blood could very well be possibly useful if the BDKs would start stacking stamina and health instead of desperately trying to adopt the playstyle of other tank classes. It makes me think that even playing Rune of Sanguination would be possible this way.

bulwark is nerfed from previously where it shined (used to be 2% per bone)
the extra HP is meaningless vs all the autoatack dmg from fortified mobs vs our horrible baseline mitigation even after the buff, autoatacks eat more than bulwark bonus in one swing

the other 2 talents are much much better, 10RP is godsend in current low haste gear lvls and blood tap is used to get the emergency rune for runetap (again low rune regen, higher GCD)

currently the only way to tank fortified mobs is going in, pop defensive CDS, get agro and gtfo by kiting, no tank will stand there and face tank without CDs
thus why monk and DH shine and warrior/DKs and to some extent paladins are less desirable. cant say much about bears yet

atm the only way to even tank as blood is stacking alot of versa to compensate for lowest armor in the game which will lead to low haste.
this worked in BFA because we could stack haste proc azurites which gave steady flow of runes/RP

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ah that makes sense … thas very sad

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