Wake me up when Avenger's Shield generates holy power again.
There was so much hope! Protection been so slow for years at this point. Please give all specs Wings of Liberty.
While I agree that the duo of Dusk and Dawn was disruptive to maintain it was also a clever minigame in the whole rotation that (maybe) down into the expansion as our secondaries grow it would be more sustainable. Now it has been reduced to just another buff that will happen naturally and lost it's appeal. Overall the changes seem ok-eish but they will not even the field nor will make the Protadin more appealing for m+ or raiding. The reason that other tanks are preferred are because they bring utility in a m+ /raid something that while paladin can do a lot with blessings self healing immunity e.t.c it is not enough and as it seems it will remain like this.
I kinda wish it were possible for Prot to take Divine Hammer to replace Consecration as a way to perhaps nerf its radius as a trade off for allowing it to move with your character. (sharing all the same talent bonuses that Consecration benefits from of course.)
You're saying there qre not many protection paladins doing high keys currently....From the tope 20 tanks (according to raider io) 8 of them are prot paladins... that's almost 20%Not sure where you're getting your data from...
in the 2400s, have tanked with prot warrior, paladin, and brm in DF. I actually like how prot paladin feels in DF more than any time in recent memory, they certainly didn't feel worse than either of the two I've tanked medium high keys with. My only major gripe is that there were several talents, especially on the paladin tree, that were completely worthless and of no real consequence which one you picked. I don't understand the crazy cd time reductions, they're going to be busted if that all goes live without other overall nerfs to survivability. I feel like this writeup, at least the intro, was written earlier, because as others have mentioned, prot paladin at least in m+ is doing just fine.