Mythic+ Tank Rankings: A Tier List for Midnight Pre-Patch (Patch 12.0 / Midnight Pre-Patch)

Protection Warrior received its fair share of changes leading up to the Midnight. Protection Warrior is likely one of the few specs that didn't really get any significant shift in rotation, as the core remains quite similar. The APM requirement for Protection warrior has slightly diminished, partly because of lower haste levels during Season 1 and part of it because of the Anger Management nerfs. With the most recent buffs, it helped elevate and improve its overall performance both offensively and defensively. As every warrior spec, Protection warrior will enjoy several new utility options to help your team!

Protection Paladin received its fair share of changes leading up to the Midnight expansion, with some of the highlights being: less defensive value tied to the Consecration, Eye of Tyr removed and Guardian of Ancient Kings will have the option to get an extra stack thanks to Empyrean Authority. Mana management has also become much better, and only really an issue if you do try to spot-heal your allies instead of using it on yourself. The lack of a major way to induce cooldown reduction on behalf of your major CDs has hit Protection Paladin quite heavily as currently you are the weakest (squishiest) tank so far on Beta. Although the damage profile and overall utility package are looking great, a step forward towards improving durability must be present asap.

Brewmaster Monk received its fair share of changes leading up to the Midnight expansion, with some of the biggest highlights being: Intense rotational pruning (much easier and less bloaty, keeping its core spells within 4-6 slots), and Dampen Harm and Diffuse Magic (damage reduction part) removal. The core rotation will still rely on Stagger / Purifying Brew which has always been known for. A much more rotational streamline approach was taken into consideration, and I am personally a big fan of it, sadly, it is too early to really know how strong Brewmaster will end up being but at this stage of Beta, they are definitely doing well, as both DPS and HPS/Durability profile are in a good spot.

Vengeance Demon Hunter received a complete rework as we advance to Midnight, with some of the highlights being: some of the best Apex talents across all tanks, increasing your Metamorphosis, Fel Devastation has no Demonic to follow, Soul Cleave has now been changed to 6-target soft cap (previously hard-capped) and Fiery Brand received the much needed quality-of-life update. VDH went absolutely parabolical with the caps lifted from them, as that significantly improves their AoE capabilities, on top of being super tanky. They will retain their great party-wide utility while getting better everywhere else. So far into Beta, VDH is just in a league of its own, but we are far away from the release of the season so many things will change until then!

Guardian Druid received its fair share of changes leading up to the Midnight expansion. Overall the spec will play a lot less spammy, mostly due to the removal of Thorns of Iron, and have a better optimized tree while retaining its low barrier to entry tank title. Although it is too early to talk about tuning, so far from the testing done, damage is really the only concern of the specialization, as both sustain and durability ( Ursoc's Fury got recently buffed) are within the balanced range.

Blood Death Knight received quite a few changes leading up to the Midnight expansion, with some of them being a weaker/shorter Dancing Rune Weapon, on top of getting an RNG DRW from your capstone apex talents and a significant rotational pruning of the spec. The barrier to entry, is arguably the lowest it's ever been with BDK, as the spec offers a much more streamlined approach compared to before.