All Tanks Evaluated (BFA)

Classes Druid
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Recently I’ve been looking at Nihillo-Tich. As far as I can tell he’s the greatest bear tank in the world, pushing mythic BoD and running 17+mythics.

Can’t get that damn opulence trinket to drop though.

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Oh please, don’t patronize me. I’m just saying I enjoy healing Warriors and Druids the most.

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I avoid warrior tanks like the plague.

Since bfa launch I have had one successful run with a warrior. Just one. All the rest have been by far the worst runs I have ever suffered through. I made a promise to myself back in October to never again run with a warrior ever again and I haven’t looked back. They can take a seat beside feral druids.

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You agreed to this statement as druid and warrior do not act as ping pong balls which then stresses out the healer.

Now I am informing you that if in fact you are stressed when healing a blood DK one of two things are wrong.

  1. The DK tank does not know how to heal himself
  2. You do not know how healing a DK works

This of course is without even starting to look at the rest of the insane statements placed in the DK portion

This is just silly.

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You know what else is silly? Having this kind of argument with a random scrub who barely got 1k io in season 1.

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You know what’s silly? Using IO as any kind of credential for discussing a class.

No one cares.

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Darn you got me id have a snazy comeback but I dont need to go dig through a profile. you made it easy enough saying DKs were hard to heal and you would prefer a druid in M+ lol

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quit carrying your girl… this is all her opinion basically. doesn’t sound like she is wanting to take the time to learn how she needs to heal the different tank specs. she got used to healing bear and seeing what your cd looks like on your health bar. this is all this is.

you literally are being pigeon holed by that. so really none of this whole post is your own opinion. instead its your wifes. taking her out of the equation which tank do you like? lol honest question

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Seriously? I don’t recall saying DK is objectively worse. I would have to be a moron to say this. I never said I didn’t have sucesso running with DKs either, because this isn’t true. All I said, is that I personally enjoy more healing Druids and Warriors.
Screw you.

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settle silaena, they are just words. and everyone has a preference. yours is not wrong or right. its just your preference. if peeps don’t like it well that’s their probs not yours. its an odd preference but still nothing wrong with it

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Tell that dude this. He’s the one who started the aggression.

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33

i know i know. but its the internet. people will argue the color white just because they feel like it lol

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No aggression here, you happen to be the one name calling.

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Yes, because I would rather have a direct approach to confrontation.
Don’t worry, I will settle down as I don’t want to derrail the thread.

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No we won’t!

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37

lmao totally spit out my pop reading that

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38

Gently pats her :slight_smile: its ok <3

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Thank you. It’s nice to see some people respect the opinions of others. I had to post this because there is all this hate going on for blizzard at the moment and it’s not warranted. Are bears the tank you want to do cutting edge keys with? Who knows, as you can see my group is around +10 key area. We have zero issues with getting our +9 keys in every week and then that frees us up to do other things.

Here is some advice on bear tanks. Dont use maul. It’s pretty much worthless, costs to much and you need to focus on group threat. Use your extra rage to keep ur armor up. Since you wont be burning it on maul you should have a high uptime on 2 stacks of armor.

When starting on groups, thrash and swipe to get the 3 stacks up and let that tick to keep agro. Threat is second nature to me so dont be afraid to taunt if one gets loose, that’s what is there for.

Our self heal is very nice and is a big chunk of healing, try to use it when you think ur healer is focused on someone else. The cool down is short enough to where you should be doing a good deal of self healing, if done correctly.

Also use roots on melee adds, and try to LOS/interrupt casters to bring them to a nice spot for the dps to do there thing.

Roar is on a short cool down too, great when you and the group need run speed.

Bears have the tools to get the job done. Just need to learn how to use them.

Oh and for those that love the IO thing and think it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread. When people like myself have tons of alts and options IO is always gonna be low because the time you put in is spread across multiple toons. You really cant judge a book by its cover.

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I feel like you’re missing the point that people are making. Bears are fine doing keys up to 10s, after that you start to see the problems with the spec a lot more. The problems are always there but lower keys it’s easier for the dps and healer to carry your lack of tank utility that other tanks bring. I respect that you feel bears are the best but I have to disagree. Also please stop telling people to basically “learn how to tank” when most of us have done harder content on our bears than you have. It only hurts the point you’re trying to make.

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All tanks are more than capable of doing +10’s. +10’s are gear farm mode at this pioint. Question, why do you only do a +9 every week instead of a +10?

No, it’s the only measurement available of player’s experience in M+ content. Keys get substantially more difficult as you go up in levels. Suddenly mechanics that you could face tank on a +10 will one shot you. New strats form, class ability and utility suddenly become significant instead of being able to plow through on sheer ilvl alone.

Let me give you an example, I was farming Freeholds on this toon last week for the weapon (that stupid thing still hasn’t dropped). I did a handful of 10-12 keys and it wasn’t anything challenging. The hardest part was getting pugs not to facepull or get hit by barrel smash on the second boss.

That said, here comes a resto druid, 396 ilvl equipped who could not get through grevious on the first boss. Once it applied to everyone they just went to 4 stacks and bled out. We wiped 3 times on a +10. Like… ?

I inspect him to find he has 2min tranq and tree as talents on a grievous week. I mentioned I think he may have forgotten to respec after a raid and he says no these are the best talents… herpaderpaderpyderp

This type of player would never go on to push keys, ever.

On the contrary, there is a significant chance a player with a higher IO is going perform well. Afterall, if they have a score that represents they’ve completed higher difficulty keys.

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