There’s a LOT of tanks at low levels. I’m leveling one right now exclusively in dungeons, and often have to sit in queue due to dps shortage, or being refused by PL for not outleveling the dungeon. No lack of tanks in the 15-70 level range.
But at level cap, all these tanks get shelved because tanks aren’t needed in raids, so nobody wants to spend time gearing one in HCs to never get a raiding spot.
That person told me the next classic release they need to release a vanilla wow where it takes 5 years per phase of each vanilla phase. He unironically is unhinged.
I’m actually okay with a tanking incentive but I am definitely against the paying gold for it. The two are not intrinsically linked my issue with paying or giving them all of the stuff is that lowers my ability as well. For instance I craft things with the vortex but if I’m not allowed to loot the vortex I’m not allowed to sell anything that uses the vortex as an example. And if I want to take I have to pay a tank 50 gold well 50 gold wants you’re done with all the quests you know that’s a good hour of farming really because of how overpopulated the world is no thank you.
after talking it over with a buddy i do kinda agree they arent absolutely the same though the same sentiment kinda happens with it.
tanks want some sort of compensation for time and the game should probably provide it mostly because there have been a bunch of changes already and i dont see this as being a bad one in comparision to the others suggested.
but if the game doesnt provide its up to the players to do so somehow or just suffer from lack of tanks .
trying to get a tank banned for trying to make a bit of reward for tanking something they dont even need or whatever and then complaining about a tank shortage is stupid though.
im sure you do see what im saying here.
Add a role buff to the dungeon finder. “Queueing as a tank will increase threat generated in dungeons by X%”.
I don’t think rewards are whats keeping people from tanking, I think that outside of paladin, tanking is just a bad time. You get crapped on by the mobs AND your dungeon group because of poor class design.
I just simply treat a tank posting an LFG the same as I do anybody else trying to sell services at LFG it’s not the appropriate place for it it’s the services channel nobody’s trying to get tanks banned for it they’re just pointing out that the tanks are doing it in the wrong place I personally won’t pay a tank nor give them the gear but I also can just ask my guild if anybody wants to do heroics
i mean i get it but its nowhere near as intrusive as the summon /portal spam was and its rather anal to be as crazy about things like the wrong channel in the lfg thing when it comes to tanks imho.
but whatever.
I can understand the problem of choosing to play tank as a “main spec”. But if you play a class that has the ability to run a tank offspec, given the shortage of players, why not use the offspec to fill the need? I suspect it’s because people realize tanking is not as face roll simple as playing a subpar dps, so rather than step up to the task themselves, the come to the forums to complain that they can’t find people to do it for them.
I love tanking, but I can only tank one lockout per day, so maybe if they removed lockouts for tanks that would be something.
Yeah, some tanks would just spam H SP for badges, but some of us would do the Heroic daily for multiple groups to help people get their completion.
Because most people use 5mans to try and advance to raids, and tanks aren’t needed in raids (you need 40% the amount of tanks you have healers, and like 15% of the amount you have DPS). So why spend time gearing that tank alt.
‘The Tank’ lol thats awesome
nah, dps pug is trash
Yes but only as a decoration for your house. You can’t actually ride it.
That’s what he’s asking.
Because you’re “that guy”, do you support the dungeon gold nurfs, too?
The best incentive for us tanks to come back? All you dps and healers have a meeting.
We want to see you look at threat meters, let the tank pull the mobs, tone your attitude down, learn your class.
Pugging on my tanks is an awful experience so I only tank for guildees now.
So many warlocks shooting seeds of corruption past my face before i even get to to the mob, warriors charging in while i am standing around the corner LOSing.
Hunters in 2026 still having their pet on aggressive pulling crap across the room. Warlocks still not knowing how to juggle fear when we need the CC on a pull.
Mages over here casting Blizzard on a single mob.
Resto druids stacking lifebloom on me just to instantly swiftmend it off and let me die in full bis tank gear wondering why rejuv doesnt keep me up.
Holy Priests standing on top of me during pulls and dying instantly from cleave.
and the kicker at the end of all of these deaths I get a “WTF TANK?!?!!”
so yeah…i only gear up my guilds alts now, and farm nethers to craft resist gear for our raid for phase 2+. no other reason or time im stepping back in heroics on my characters, especially not on my tank.
Give tank classes a party wide +35 IQ aura.
Aw… that’s lame… couldn’t be bothered to give it a flying animation, huh?
lol I play a pally tank, i only run dungeons if i need them, i don’t enjoy tanking them because you get
1.under geared heals,
2. 1 IQ dps,
3. nothing but hate from the group because you either tank safe and they complain it is too slow, tank bigger pulls and they don’t let you get agro but if you do you also drop like a sack of bricks because your heals don’t have the gear they need.
and with all this i also get the highest repair bill as my “Prize” for running the dungeon.
But i do not support tanks charging for runs.
Get to?
Let me explain something here. I have a pre-raid BIS druid tank and don’t run dungeons because people suck. I don’t have the energy to spend time marking mobs for CC just to have a random DPS run in right after I pull, pop all their cooldowns, pull threat, die, and blame me because they don’t have 1 second worth of patience.
Oh, and the guy that just ran in and died pulled the group next to the CC group and now we all died. Woo, glad I “get to” do that. Good times.
Edit: This, also this. So much this.
Guarantee you will see more tanks.