So, then, why are Vengeance Demon Hunters so dominant in higher keystone Mythics? And raiding seems a bit more diverse than Mythic+, so that’s worth considering as well. It’s only when you start filtering for higher keystones that Demon Hunters double jump to the forefront. Indeed, across all Mythic dungeons we see a far more diverse spread, with Protection Paladins actually the most common tanks, followed by Vengeance DH, then Blood DKs and Guardian Druids, with Brewmaster Monk and Protection Warrior at the bottom. So when you see that out of the top 20 Mythic+ tanks eighteen are Vengeance Demon Hunters, that doesn’t follow that there’s nothing but Vengeance DH in Mythic+ tanking roles. To a degree they have to do this, because they’re often trying to defeat Mythic raids as soon as they come out while wearing a mix of normal and heroic raid gear, or trying to push the highest keystones they can in gear from several keystones lower. They will always pick the absolutely most extreme min-maxing possible - with no regard to flavor or personal preference - in order to eke out the most performance. People who are absolutely pushing the highest levels of content, be it Mythic+ dungeons or Mythic raiding, are not now and will never be representative of the entire player base. Now, there’s a lot to keep in mind when discussing this. The perception of the player base often shapes who gets to tank This is something we’re seeing a lot in Mythic+ groups, with Vengeance Demon Hunters having taken a clear lead in participation stats among the highest ranks. When you generally prefer to play a specific class this doesn’t feel great, to realize how much better it would be to be playing a different class. The DK was head and shoulders above the Warrior, to the point where it was so much easier to keep the DK up that I simply stopped tanking on the Warrior. I started to worry about it during the alpha, when I ran Necrotic Wake on both a Warrior and a Death Knight. It feels like Shadowlands has really lost the thread on the idea of all tanks being roughly equivalent.
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