Force DPS to tank so they will learn

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It’s not easy to tank in WoW. It’s not even close to easy. To be a good tank in WoW, you basically have to be a game developer. You have to know all the major abilities of the enemies you are facing, when they will hit, and how much for. You have to know the ability level of your group and many of their cooldowns. You have to pace the pulls or deal with the DPS pulling too many things. You have to know all the mechanics of a situation and how to avoid them or deal with them.

Having AOE abilities that can taunt, and taunts, helps. Having some ranged abilities that can pull a mob help. Having weak damage doesn’t help. That’s why there are threat modifiers that try to make weak tank damage overmatch DPS for threat.

To tank well in WoW, you have to basically spend hours learning every situation you want to tank. Whether it’s a Timewalking dungeon with awful mechanics that require CC from your DPS people, or it’s a newer raid. The responsibility is on you. And that sucks.

DPS, and for the most part healers, can just cruise control along through dungeons and raids, move out of the fire and that’s about it. Some pro DPS will do things like redirecting threat onto the tank to help them, but it’s often not required. Because the tank is prepared to have clueless people with him, usually. They have to be.

Many DPS people are spoiled by getting runs with pro tanks, ones that know everything they need to. So a newer tank gives it a shot, makes a mistake, then they get nailed by everyone blaming them for not being Professor Tankitall.

Most players are DPS. Few players will or can put up with the hassle of tanking in this game. That’s why queue times in WoW for DPS have been awful for years and years. You’re not just waiting for a tank, you’re waiting on someone who has spent 40+ hours learning all the things tanks need to know.

My solution: force DPS to tank. Most of them can learn to respect how much of a pain it is to tank in this game and a few might even be good enough to do it regularly. Not permanently, but they should get a real taste of how much fun it is to have people freak out on you for every mistake you make. A slice of humble pie.

That is all.

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Depends. Raid tanking is the easiest thing to do in the game lol.

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I try to tank all the time but then the tank gets mad that I’m pulling too fast. Bro, just sit back and watch the Snikrot show :muscle: :muscle: :muscle:

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Name checks out.

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i think everyone should have to try every role before they complain about anybody else’s performance. yes, that also goes for tanks/healers who think dps just have to stand in place and do a rotation without worrying about mechanics.

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Great idea, make people who have no interest or care in a role perform that role, what could possibly go wrong lol.

Yes I have tanked before, yes you get bad/annoying people, you know what I did, I either ignored them, if they did something stupid and died, it was on them, or if they got annoying enough, vote kick them.

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Then i am good done all 3

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It’s generally easier but every once in a while there’s a sire or sludgefist fight that shows how bad some tanks are. People expect it to be simple and then bomb a slight mechanical increase lol

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Someone’s salty.

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I’m learning to tank, slowly, but I am.

And in groups of friends. Have no time for silly random dps or healers. It’s true what you say (not always), sometimes the dps or healer is doing a bad job and blame the tank.

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People think tanking is just press buttons. If only it were that easy.

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Tried this, guess what was the result?

They still don’t. they repeat the same actions over and over again, they don’t care.

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Shtomp shtomp shtompshtompshtopmshtomp SHTOMPIN SHTOMPAROOOOO

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lul, tanking is very easy if you know your class. i tanked all last expansion and some of the beginning of sl and had zero issues other than dps rushing ahead which always happens.

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Force tanks to heal so they will learn.

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well I wouldn’t mind, but oh…what’s this?

Pure DPS classes can’t tank even with pets

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Force tanks to stay with the group so they’ll learn.

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Tanking is no harder than any other role, it’s probably even a bit easier. The issue is when the tank makes a mistake its almost always a guaranteed wipe.

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Counterpoint: Tanking is by far the easiest role, in everything but Mythic+ Dungeons. It’s still noticeable when you do or don’t know how to effectively play your spec, but mechanically it has the least going on outside of the important routing (and I guess kiting, at times) of Mythic+.

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raid tank mechanics for past 10 years be like:
switch at 3 stacks

dps raid mechanics be like:
War & peace

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