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Not that this is the tank forum, but it's a buff to Defensive Stance. Instead of doing 10% less damage you do 5% less damage.

This is an experiment. We do have some concern that for example warriors might just slip into Defensive Stance in PvP if they could do exactly the same damage (minus a few key abilities). But it the sun continues to rise in the morning after these changes have been tested for a little while, we might eventually pull the penalties completely. (This would be true for Berserker Stance as well.)

Yeah, I was refering to turtling. We're fine with Defensive Stance being used to turtle in PvP. Perfect. But we want you to have to actually turtle when you do it, which means doing less damage. DKs for example give up say 15% damage to shift to Frost Presence. It is hard to equate that directly to the loss of certain abilities for the warrior.

I'm not saying you don't need Intercept, WW etc. in PvP. I'm saying that you're obviously willing to do without them for short periods of time when you are fighting defensively. Letting Defensive Stance do too much damage may tip that scale. We'll see.