Be Prepared to Run Dungeons Without Tanks or Healers

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For anyone who didn’t play vanilla, be prepared to experience some very strange dungeons groups - especially when leveling.

Healers are incredibly rare and tanks even more so. And even if you find a tank, it wasn’t uncommon for the tank to leave suddenly after running half way across the continent to reach Scarlet Monastery. But more commonly, you had no choice but to try and run a dungeon without a tank after unsuccessfully trying to find one for an hour in trade chat.

But many different groups work in Classic, so be open to having pet tanks, shaman tanks, or in extreme pinches, even paladin tanks (just kidding… mostly).

And even if you don’t have a dedicated healer, you can still be pretty successful with hybrids and careful CC. And bandages. Lots of bandages.

What I’m trying to say is have an open mind in Classic and that you don’t always have to have a trinity group. Some of my favorite memories in vanilla were of having fun while trying to make terrible group compositions working in dungeons. Something I’ll probably be doing again very shortly.

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The best thing about the return of Classic will be the statistics showing an increase in divorce rate and child neglect.

Ahhh, simpler times.

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Well, that was fast. Kuddos to the GM that moved this thread to this subforum.

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As a healer, anyone who suggests that the Shaman is the tank won’t have a healer long. Or the Voidwalker. Or the hunter pet.

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Yeah, they’re getting pretty good at it since reading is super hard for the vast majority of their players.

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God, I remember overhearing some of the fights my guildies had with their significant others over voice. Your comment is way too true.

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Hey, Shaman can use shields. Is it 100% not happening, or just ‘this is going to be a clown fiesta’?

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I fixed it. I realized I was in the wrong forum the second after I clicked post. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I experienced way more weird group compositions at level 60 than while leveling in vanilla. Because once you start to outgear stuff you figure you can get away with it. And you probably can, with a little creativity and patience.

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Shaman’s make a great “The tank died, someone hold the mob long enough to kill it so we can Rez.” Attempting to use a Shaman as a main tank through any dungeon over level 20, is a clown fiesta.

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Meh, I had my Voidwalker tank a few low level 5 mans in vanilla, it wasn’t optimal but we would get it done.

But I think this time around finding tanks and healers will be a lot easier since we are all starting at the same time this time around, and people actually have an idea of class roles now.

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And Warriors have been fooled into thinking that they’re going to be viable DPS at raiding, as long as they tank 5-mans on the way up.

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cries in Shaman

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They still beat the alternative of no tank. Druids were practically non-existant in Vanilla, paladins were useless unless carefully specced, and warriors were all DPS. My experience in Vanilla until at least Strat and LBRS, is you take whatever you can get.

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I am part of the “tanked ST as a shaman” clown fiesta club

It was 15 years ago and I still remember it so I would say it was definitely WILD

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If anyone can play retail, any sub 30 dungeon can be done without a tank.
Generally.

Shammies bloody well can tank thelot

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warriors are top tier dps in raids, just have to get geared first

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If I find a group and it’s 4 DPS, I’m out of there.

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heh shaman are fine tanks up to about sm armory / cath level. their threat is better than you would imagine and their mitigation depending on talents and gear is respectable.

i did some shaman tanking back in tbc in the old vanilla dungeons and did just fine. hell i even could heal myself and maintain threat when the healers mana got low.

also . did you know a hunter boar pet was tanking hakkar on more than a few raid groups ?

not sure about the vw tanking . dont think they are as good at holding aggro as hunter pets.

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Some of this might be true in leveling dungeons but once you start hitting BRD/ST/Mara and later dungeons you will be wanting a real healer and a real tank.

And no outgearing content to the point that group content doesn’t matter is not the same as people using creative means to over come group comp.

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