Not one or two - literally zero. The breakdown has been about 35 paladins, 10 death knights, and 5 warriors.
Why did they go extinct? Are they THAT bad?
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I’m only Level 75.
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Working on it.
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They aren’t that bad, they just aren’t fun to play, really. Nothing about our playstyle changed, we have no super cool abilities like other tanks got, we’re basically the same as TBC feral except squishier, but higher health pools.
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heroic tanking is always defined by who will get a raid spot.
As a feral tank getting a raid spot is basically nill you wont see them in heroics. This is the same reason you see a ton of pallys even no warriors are the best 5 man tanks.
You see some warrior tanks even no they dont get as many raid spots as tank just since there good at tanking there so some people like doing them on there warrior.
Druids on the other hand get spots as boom/resto with a rare spot as kitty the kittys might tank here and there but the ones that got a raid spot also have geared long agao and new kittys are not getting raid spots easy as such few and far between as such makes most sense to gear up as boom or resto. Add in healers being more needed than tanks on avg if wanting quick access to heroics this is the same call to make.
Also 50 is a rather small sample size and you saying “about” calls into question the validity of your data. While it might be true you seen 0 ferals that word alone makes it so we cant really trust even the number 50. Minor point but something to note non the less.
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They are the second-best tank for the entire expansion, right behind blood DK. This phase just happens to be extremely easy to cheese by prot pally stacking. The mighty bears will awaken from their hibernation when the gates of ulduar call them.
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Them being right behind dks makes them third best not 2nd best.
Prot pally is universally agreed as the best tank in wrath.
third best is not a good spot to be for tanks in a xpac that only needs 1 tank for most fights with a few that call for 2 tanks and those that do norm just wants a dps to toss a few tank items on outside of your prog kill.
Uldar dosent change anything for feral
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I’ve had about 3 or 4. The ones I’ve had in my groups have been pretty decent (i’m a healer)
i personally hate healing a druid tank they cant block and always get crit and as far as im aware like a warrior they can not doge spells… idk how many groups i have been in where the druid tank gets one shot while the pally and dk tanks just lol at it.
They have crit immunity baked into their talent tree so they should not be getting crit ever.
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Same here. Did way more than 50 hcs and most of the tanks were DKs and pallies.
PPL don’t play anymore. Ferals back in OG WOTLK use to pull entire rooms applying lacerate to each mob while queueing swipe with lacerate due to spell batching. Topping DPS charts on trash pulls.
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that is also the big issue unlike other classes its very talent tree specific. if you don’t know that cat and bear have different trees etc this is gonna happen especially leveling where most just roll the spec that helps them quest quicker cause normals are easy. might explain some past experience tho lol
Sounds outrageous but IIRC my druid had near 70% dodge in WOTLK.
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seen this alot back in og wrath used to think that was dumb lol.
but this could also be why we dont see much of them talent specific plus very gear reliant being leather gear right now would pale in comparisons.
Both Cat and Bear take this talent because it also gives 6% to all attributes as well. But yeah, if some one completely doesn’t know how to play this game they’re going to be harder to heal, regardless of the class.
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WoTLK certainly is the easiest Feral tanks have ever had it, but LOLSWIPE every GCD (x100,000) when tanking >2 mobs is pretty boring.
Them Prot-Paladins and their 20-minute Consecrations have it so E-Z.
not really even someone that sucks at the game can stil work it out as a pally 1-50 most groups was ret pally. or dk hell i tank multiple dungeons as unholy with just frost presence on. and not get one shot by the spell i dodged naturally in the wrong spec not because i missed a talent point. make the whole classes them self a lot more user friendly apposed to a druid that needs a set gear and talent to work.
That goes to blood dk. This phase is just prot pally skewed.
Cat druid with cat spec switching to bear to tank is basically the same as UH DK switching into Frost pres to tank except the Cat has built in crit immunity. It’s literally easier for them to do this and why they make such great OTs. The reason you don’t see as many bears is because they have the worst aoe threat which makes tanking 5 mans harder.
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