patch 2.0.10 notes on the PTR

[Concillian]

Prot warrior weakness at soloing and at doing damage in raids is almost always overstated. At 60 I was coming around the middle of the DPS pack with my 31 Prot warrior when raiding and that was before 12 rage uninterruptible slams. See some of the other threads in these forums for DPS of a deep prot build - it's surprisingly competitive.

This is something I believe as well. The thing is that for a Prot warrior to DPS, they need DPS gear. Prot warriors often take tanking gear and pass DPS gear to rogues, hunters, or "DPS warriors"

Prot DPS is viable provided they have the gear for it. The druid camp was getting both for free for a while.

As for my standpoint on the druid nerfs:
- I think it's good they removed the damage
- I think it's good to nerf swipe a bit on threat to make target switching while tanking more necessary
- I don't know enough about single taret threat to be able to make a judgement here. My gut feel is that they can handle the nerf, but I don't have the experience to know for sure
- I think the armor change was completely unnecessary, druids were below warrior mitigation even with extreme armor values, it made them more useful in highly physical fights where mana wasn't an issue.
- I think the health change should probably be changed to give +2-400 HP AND +25% stamina. This is because at 70 they should have more health than the static +1000 health they had in 1.x at 60... This helps lower geared druids, while not making much of a difference to higher geared druids.

My standpoint on the warrior buffs:
- The rage buff was somewhat un-necessary in my mind. But I haven't seen full raid DPS mode yet at 70. This change will significantly favor Fury for PvE DPS as was the case in 1.x, I liked seeing Arms with more PvE viability.
- The %crit buff made some sense. Completely naked with no talents any class should have ~5% crit. Warriors didn't, they will after the patch.
- The breaking snares on intercept / charge / intervene will help against mages and beastmaster hunters, Don't really see where else, maybe affliction locks? Shouldn't be overpowering, and should help 2v2 and 3v3 PvP viability.
- Victory Rush change is nice, I think not game breaking. 20 seconds means bandaging and keeping the ability to use it becomes a LOT more viable (right now it's doable, but you have to move a mob near the next one, and be quick with the buttons)
- Thunder Clap in defensive is a change I don't really like all that much. It makes tanking much less complex, which is good and bad. It removes a good reason to bring a DPS warrior along, since many prot specs will be able to maintain their own debuff