Come across a lot of people saying prot warrior is the worst tank in bfa. Can't outright say they're wrong, cus I haven't leveled any of my alts to 120 yet, but I will be damned if I let that get to me if its true. I started raiding as a prot warrior during Nighthold. Home of the "all I do is throw magic damage at you hahaha no auto attacks" Star Auger fight. It was brutal, but I powered through. Thats what warrior means. It means fighting on, ignoring the pain and the struggle. Ignoring the people complaining. And eventually my perseverance paid off. In Tomb and Antorus, I was so on top of everything(at least as far as every other tank I pugged with) as to make things laughable. I'd take a large meteor from KJ even with fel,claws stacks. I'd opt to just take both hits from Aggramar on Heroic, and hit Nelths on the second and laugh as my health dropped to 90%. I'd take double hits on Kin'Goroth so my co tank could grab extra orbs. And thats not even mentioning the damage output. It was insane. I'd be competative with average quality dps players, and depending on how well my burst lined up, in the top 5 at times.
Bfa...feels different. Even in Nighthold it felt like I was carrying the damage well. It hurt, but I could work with it, and healers didnt have trouble keeping me up. We'd run Mythic 10s and I'd have to force,myself to control pulls for mechanic reasons, when I was sitting there overcapping rage because I cant apend it fast enough without overcapping IP. Now...it feels like I'm trying to push a boulder up a hill, but theres no traction so I'm really just trying to slow the boulder down for as long as I can.
But damn, when I finally do get my boots into the ground and push this thing to the top, I will be all the better, and know my class all the more because of the struggle. And I will get there. The player makes the class. And I will make this work, if I have to jam my shield up the raid boss's *censored* so far that it *censored* and -geez, I've never even seen that word used like that, but its still censored- so quickly they go crying home to their mommy.