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After tanking some runs on my death knight, I logged into my paladin. I haven’t done anything with her for quite a while, but I used to tank heroics on her just fine. Looking at her hitpoints now, I’d probably get laughed out of any heroic I tried to tank.
When Wrath heroics were new, if you had 540 defense you were good to go. Now I read about tanks equipping DPS gear and dropping to a pitiful 32k health and their low hitpoints make healers nervous. It may be theoretically possible to hit 30k health without doing any any heroics, but that seems to me an arbitrarily high barrier.
My paladin at just over 20k health was fine for tanking Wrath heroics two patches ago. Now she is no longer considered adequate for tanking those same heroics. Is this another case of requiring Northrend Dungeon Hero prior to running heroics?