Nah maybe the smart people chose not to play with stupid people. Then yeah, you wouldn’t have seen them.
Play however you want to. Go ahead and put people on ignore for not catering their experience to an uptight stranger’s idea of the One True Way. But for as long as you feel like contradicting fact and math, you’ll have everyone who knows better pushing back.
Fun fact, btw: I’m prot, with a shield, and have not run a single cleave group (up to 54, so far).
The reason so many advocate for Anything-Other-Than-Prot-Or-Sword-And-Board tanking is because most warriors are actually little girly men who detest the masculinity that real tanking exudes. They can’t handle movies like 300 because the manliness is just overwhelming to them.
Let’s try this another way: you or others choosing to engage content in a manner of your preference is totally fine. Why do you feel the need to tell others who have found success via other methods they’re playing wrong?
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This dude gets it.
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Yep, he understands what is commonly known as “a race to the bottom.” That’s what anyone advocating for non-sword and board tanking are doing.
I’m actually prot, as I outline above, but good effort.
I know that. That doesn’t mean you can’t still be an advocate for a race to the bottom. I have a feeling that’s more of an act of self-preservation to you than it is something you truly believe. You aint hoodwinking me.
Uh huh. I’m sure it is entirely unrelated to the efficacy of speedclears that SS 2h yields. Definitely not that.
Nope, it’s not that. That much is obvious. You can speed clear a dungeon with a Sword and Board if you’re not terrible.
lmao source those numbers please. 1-45 sure warr op but, this is a 15 year old game warrior dps is trash until naxx.
Guess the fury warriors sitting in the top 10 on most fights on warcraftlogs in MC and Onxyia didn’t get the memo that they are trash till Naxx.
Oh I don’t, i’m a big fan of abusing the 5 second rule, I always give tanks time to build threat while I focus on my biggest most efficient heals. Its possible I’ve just had a stream of bad 2H tanks…
There are absolutely some circumstances where 2H is possible, but it isn’t necessary and often not used correctly or in the right circumstances.
Fury Warriors can Offtank, going dual wield until tanky time comes, and stance swap to sword&board as needed.
However, just because someone isn’t doing what YOU want them to do, doesn’t mean you have a right to treat them poorly.
Respectfully tell the tank they need to get themselves right, and if they don’t, either leave or kick them.
But don’t be a jerk, seriously, if you REALLY want tanks to self-examine, you need to filter your words.
Being angry doesn’t mean you’re justified in shaming someone, or that you’re above them somehow. You’re not!
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top 10 isn’t top, the gap will increase as casters and rogues get gear, while the only thing that drops for the warr is tank gear for the next 3 raids.
This. For the most part, no one (certainly not me, at least) is demanding that tanks should exclusively tank with 2h weapons. It’s mostly just push back against the opposite: that tanking must be done with a shield, specifically in the low to mid dungeon range.
Simple solution! If you WANT a tank that USES a SHIELD, Re-roll one yourself. PROBLEM SOLVED!
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New Rule: If you want to tank lvl 50+ use a shield or lfg as dps.
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As long as im not being hit, i dont care who’s tanking, stuff doesn’t really hit that hard. Heck, my last SM cath group was a rogue, 2 mages, and a hunter. Rogue or a mage was tanking half the time and we really didnt have issues. I mean after like lvl 40+ a shield might be necessary. But low level dungeons dont really matter.
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I have to see this to believe it. And I’m not arguing, I need some light shed on this. I just can’t get it around my head that you really think it’s more healer mana efficient for 3 elite mobs to be beating on a 2h wielding warrior and all three elite mobs have only half their health left. Those 3 elite mobs aren’t going to be losing any damage they deal, the amount of damage will still be same of 3 elite mobs. But if you focus fire one mob at a time you will take 1 elite mob down which means it’s only the damage of 2 elite mobs which let’s the healer use less mana. I mean I’ve seen and done Sweeping Strikes+Whirlwind nonsense before, sure you get to the top of the damage meters but unless you’re focus firing enemies, you’re not going to be lowering elite mob damage any time soon.