Just been thinking about this recent change to disarm from 35.0.1:
"Disarm Effect
For a long time we haven't been happy with the way disarm works (by temporarily treating your weapon as un-equipped), which has a lot more performance and statistical implications than is necessary, so we've taken this opportunity to change it to work identically to Silence - your weapon is no longer disabled, but disarm simply blocks the use of certain skills for the duration.
We also removed several cases where a skill could be affected by both Silence & Disarm - any given skill should now only be vulnerable to one or the other (or neither)."
I believe one of the (several) arguments for going sword and board while tanking was that you'd not lose your ability to block if disarmed - this change appears to remove this as a reason not to go 2 handed.
Anyone confirm this?
Any tanks thinking about a 2 hander to make better use of the At the Fore damage boost?
Or are the extra shield stats still king?
Just wondering as being a 2 handed tank in yellow always struck me as the intention but never became what was done in practice and whether this might change with this update?