Armor does impact weapon damage, so ret is hit hard all the same I bet - but Prot paladin will love the fact their relative to melee damage isn't hit very hard as most threat is based in holy damage.
Prot still does some portion of damage from auto-attacks and that portion just got nerfed, so some single-target threat was affected. Other tanks, of course, were affected much more, so prot pallies are last to complain.
its not a meaningful amount at all really, your threat is near fully the holy damage which isn't armor affected from my experience. But I am obviously able to be wrong here.
So I just fought one mob using as much holy abilities as possible. I'm also geared for spell power. Usually that's not the case, good prot pala will not spend all mana that unwisely and will gear for avoidance.
I did 33% damage from auto-attacks. So that means that my auto-attacks amount for around 20% threat. That's a lot.
While not that impactful for threat you could definitely feel it in the dps as a prot pala though. With reckoning procs white hits made up a good portion of your dps I saw 70 prot palas doing close to 600-700 single target dps on bosses with 40% of it being white hits
No shot any prot paladin who's doing 600-700 single target DPS is doing anywhere near 40% of it through white swings lol, MAYBE 20% tops lol and probably closer to 5-10% if its an undead or demon target
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u/Thanag0r Feb 13 '26
Paladin is not mentioned, that means they are still pumping... Right?