Give Gladiator back please (and thank you!)

I only got to try out the spec a little bit during WoD, and honestly I wish I had spent more time trying it out.

I recall having fun with it just bday it was something pretty different than I was used to, even though warrior wasn’t my main.

If it were to come back though, I guess I’m concerned over visual clarity in telling a prot and glad warrior apart, and turning the tank cd’s into more offensive based ones, or just not giving them as many tank bonuses.

I can’t really offer an opinion beyond that since I only tried it out for a week or two, and I barely remember my time spent with it since it was a while ago for me now.

Would love to have it back. I would tank dungeons for my guild and could be a tank full in on raid nights. As it stands now there is desire to have prot gear for me.

Adding my signature to this. I loved sword and board dps!

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Every time I think of this scene, I wish I could play like this in wow. Beating people with a shield and weapon, while tossing spears should the need arrive. Gladiator spec please! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpLtXIlkyYA

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I miss it so much

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Yeah, definitely something I’d like to see.

Of course I agree with several here that there are balance issues with allowing shield use.

Bring it back as PvP talent maybe? Tone the dps down and cc down and then it should fit in with some of the other fun off specs people want to play. I would love to use 1h sword and shield for PvP without being a useless tank (compared to most other tanks in PvP).

Dude. You literally just resurrected 4 glad stance threads. Stop it. Get some help.

Nobody wants it. That’s the reason they haven’t brought it back. Probably less than 5% of the playerbase wants glad stance back. Now take that, and add on that it’s probably the hardest thing to balance (also one of the reasons they canned the idea), and you have a recipe for…them not adding glad stance back.

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weird? what got you all mad…U died to glad stance back in wod and still hating?

Why would I be mad? Glad stance doesn’t exist. If anything you sound a little salty that they ditched it.

Anyways based off this response it’s very easy to see that you’re a troll so I’ll go ahead and flag and move on, as I’m sure many others will.

Enjoy your day.

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as you enjoy yours. weird how i catch you in a contradiction and that means troll. Its ok ill enjoy the game anyways and put in my 2c about how I would like to see it return. Ill report your report and be on with my day.

Contradiction. Hm.

I don’t think it means what you think it means.

ummmmmmm

weird?

So clearly you don’t know how Blizzard goes about implementing/reimplementing things.

Simply because a group of people that make up less than maybe 5% of the playerbase want something, doesn’t mean they’ll even consider bringing it back. Not even for a second. In fact if they read these threads they’d probably joke about it over the water cooler.

In otherwords: no.

so im not allowed to say I would like to see it return? dang are you a mod here and making the rules? Weird if only that worked with everything we wouldn’t have classic? I gave my example about how they could bring it back and I would like to see it return. Doesnt mean its coming back at all or that my 1 opinion will change it lol

When there’s 5 threads on it and it keeps popping up, it’s pretty annoying. You ever have kids that ask every 5 seconds if you’re there yet during a long trip? It’s exactly like that.

A lot of people wanted classic to return. Not a fraction of a fraction of their playerbase. But nice try with the comparison there.

So why create/necro thread after thread after thread about it? It’s not helping your cause. All you’re doing is making it more difficult for people trying to find actual useful threads by spamming this nonsense.

what were you searching for that this took up all the space on yoru screen to where you decided “ima make trouble on purpose” lol. Again im allowed to create and post of threads that I would like to comment on. If not then we wouldnt have classic or a multitude of other changes. U can say its annoying but maybe if you click on other threads or use the search you can find exactly what you wish to comment on. I will comment and talk about gladiator stance since I would like to see it return in some fashion. You being mean for seemingly no reason isnt going to change that.

Funny enough, what you’re doing is actually spamming. May I recommend reading the forum ToS?

Btw I have not been mean or condescending or anything toward you. I simply stated the reason why what you are posting for was removed from the game in the first place, and why we likely won’t see it again. At least not anytime soon.

your spamming as well. So you would only be getting in trouble yourself. I just commented using my opinion on relevant threads.

Says the person commenting saying reporting for troll when you could simply report and not comment. Wouldnt this be more efficient?

As I said before I would like to see it return in some form as it was a fun time. Just because its gone doesnt mean it might not return. Even if its a small % of players wanting its return doesnt take away criticism. This could be said for symbiosis for druids which also faces the same issues Glad stance has. It was difficult to get correct and was a nightmare for tuning. Not too many people wanted that to return but its making a glorious return and im happy to see that as well. Im just helping my warrior buds out since its fun running around with a sword and shield and not being a tank ( and a worse pvp tank then most of the other options lol)

This is a forum, a place where we can provide feedback. Frost DKs got two handed weapons back after asking for it on the forums for years.

So back on topic. Is the main opposition to this concerns over balancing? The utility I speak of concerns CC and interprets rather than taking less damage when struck. A shield could be used to knock people over/down, reflect damage, etc.

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