Very true. It's about what you like to play.

 

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I am really enjoying the play style of the bear tank so far. My gear has finally hit the 350 ilvl mark, leaving me with somewhere around 150k HP. Pug dps is always giving me a hard time telling me I need to get "moar hp". Guess they didn't get he memo were we were hit hard in the bear hp bonus.

We do feel like we are lacking a cooldown at the moment. Survival instintics wax changed from a HP bonus to 50% dmg reduction. Barkskin is still there. Our new mastery mechanic seems like it does have promise. Right now anytime a critical hit occurs I am given Savage Defender which absorbs x amount of damage based on your mastery. I'm sitting pretty at a 72% absorb at the moment. When I'm taking dmg it feels less spiky then when I was raiding ICC.

Single target is still pretty great. I am only in heroics atm. I can start a pull on a boss that will peak around 27,000 TPS. Area pulls can be a bit tricky now. No longer can we just spam swipe. Now Trash and Swipe are on a 6 second CD. Once you get a trash then swipe and a roar out they usually have my attention. DPS just needs to learn to wait till they are near me before attacking.

I find myself out of form more then ever. It's nice to have a root and Cyclone for those big tough pulls.

I've done all of the heroics so far and Beradin Hold

 

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As a healer, I have no real preference.

I found my Pally the easiest overall, followed by the DK. The pally has the easiest "get aggro back" effect because you can target the mob or the target of the mob making good use of VuhDo bars. Warrior is great for stomping casters but with all Pallys getting Rebuke they won't be too far back. My druid just feels like a spank me target. Hardest for me to get group aggro on adds because I always feel stuck on CDs.

Regardless, one thing I did notice, it was far far far easier to level 80 to 85 in tank spec than dps specs (even my over geared DK frost spec) simply because tank specs remove critical hits on top of overall damage reduction. Once I swapped back to tank spec to level my DK never had down time (before she would have to bandage/food every four or so fights - sometimes after fights against multiples).

 

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Thank you all for the responses and the input!

I know it's about "what I want to play" but I don't have any experience with either tank, so I don't know which that will be yet. I'm prodding you all for your experience and input... I'll read it, interpret it, and then I will decide which class I feel will be the best fit for me. Just because I'm soliciting you for your feedback doesn't mean I'm blindly going to choose class A because Z poster said it was better. I am glad that so many responded with the reasons why they like one class or another. It is helpful information.

I really appreciate everyone taking the time to throw in their $0.02.

 

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