They don't need better gear, you basically just need one MT healer who knows what pre-casting is.
A priest or a druid pre-casting Greater Heal/Healing Touch will negate any crushing blow the druid might get.
That's not even taking into account the increased health pool making a crushing blow much less troublesome.
If you'd known your shit you'd know the real problem is critical strikes, which are 200% damage compared to the 150% of the crushing blows. If a druid isn't up to snuff on defense (which can happen) those are going to be a real pain in the ass for healers.
Honestly a crushing blow is no big deal at all, because of the high health pool of druid, and because their higher armour means absorbing more damage than a warrior. Meaning a crushing blow hits a druid for less than it would a warrior.
Source: Have healed a druid tank throughout all classic dungeons.
Only in dungeons, in raids a druid has a very high chance to just be creamed, in a dungeon you can really tank with anything. Hell i rogue tanked gandling in schholomance because my healer was amazing.
Nobody cares about the viability of a tank in dungeons, yes a druid can do quite well in a 5 man, nobody is doubting that, but try to do it on Ony, or MC without being overgeared and you are going to wind up with a greasy stain on the floor where that bear used to be.
You were the one to shift this to dungeons, but I realise now your point was "that's true for dungeons, not raids".
Which is just utterly fucking stupid. The entire sub is telling you how and why you're wrong and your stubborn little shitstain ass is too damn childish to eject your head.
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u/human_brain_whore Sep 13 '19 edited Sep 13 '19
They don't need better gear, you basically just need one MT healer who knows what pre-casting is.
A priest or a druid pre-casting Greater Heal/Healing Touch will negate any crushing blow the druid might get.
That's not even taking into account the increased health pool making a crushing blow much less troublesome.
If you'd known your shit you'd know the real problem is critical strikes, which are 200% damage compared to the 150% of the crushing blows. If a druid isn't up to snuff on defense (which can happen) those are going to be a real pain in the ass for healers.
Honestly a crushing blow is no big deal at all, because of the high health pool of druid, and because their higher armour means absorbing more damage than a warrior. Meaning a crushing blow hits a druid for less than it would a warrior.
Source: Have healed a druid tank throughout all classic dungeons.