A lot of us have been saying that Evoker needs a third spec. A lot of us are unhappy that Evoker can’t tank if it is tied to one race and one race is tied to it. We all know that tanks are rare and that a lot of people hate to tank.
I’ve solved the problem.
First, Evoker should have three specs: caster dps, healing, and tanking.
But the tank should be caster.
You heard me right. A caster tank. The first time ever in WOW’s history. The tank holds threat primarily through AOE spells, similar to consecration and arcane explosion. They are the only tank class that has an AOE taunt that brings in all MOBs in the surrounding areas. A new class, a new tanking experience, and a solution to the outcry against evoker only being able to heal and cast DPS.
I want to hear the community’s thoughts. And if you love it, make some noise so Blizzard and Ion hears!
Also what’s the point of a “caster tank”? It’s not like you’re going to be at range - pretty much every mob will close into melee no matter what the tank is doing personally.
I’m no tank expert but if you’re a caster and you keep yourself x amount of yards away from the boss are you basically running them in a circle the entire time?
I mean there’s a point where as a tank you do these kinds of things but I feel like it would be so much more aggressively kiting/running.
Also, making more tank specs won’t fix that. People hate to tank because the community treats them like garbage and places almost all of the responsibility for a successful run on them.
Let’s not forget that they have a new mechanic which we have to charge up the spells for bigger damage!. Why do people keep trying to take away our only new range class…
I mean again I wouldn’t want anything tacked on to evoker to mess it up, but why should being a caster preclude being a tank? I’m not saying this class but why not shake up the norm at some point and do just that a caster tank?
What would a caster tank even look like? You can’t tank at range, so a mage tank would just be sitting there trying to cast spells while getting punched in the face. That doesn’t seem like a fun dynamic to me.
An “instant cast” magic tank in melee would be interesting. Kinda falling somewhere inline with the works of pally/dk in their use of magic. But rather than Light/Blood they would use Arcane. It’s not the worst idea, honestly.
Cuze casters aren’t tanks. They arent Meant to tank damage and stayin melee range. Casters kite, period. They stay at range to avoid damage and cast spells.
The closets thing we have to this is warlock demo spec and they can’t do it ether.
Melee magic using classes are not casters
Why can’t we leave the only caster we’ve gotten in decades alone???
because then you would have to go back and re-tune every raid and dungeon for a completely new system of tanking, especially since making older dungeons m+ is a common thing now. oh, and when you re-tune those dungeons and raids, you have to make sure it doesn’t also break normal tanking as well.
think about it for a second. the only way this would work is by kiting the boss all around the room contstantly. that is not pleasent gameplay for pretty much any class/role.
The lack of tanks is not due to a lack of tanking classes, but rather it’s due to a lack of players who want to tank. While I have no objection to Evokers having a tank spec, I don’t put much stock in any reasoning that uses the lack of tanks as a reason why it should be added. As if adding another tanking class would somehow make people want to tank when they currently do not.
As to needing to change a bunch of stuff a caster doesn’t have to be ranged in a spec if they wanted it to tank, so no need to rework old content. As for the how that’s where the finessing would need to be, but it could easily have abilities with cast times and some way to reduce those, so when you’re off tanking you save your resource by long casting, when you’re up you can then use the resource to quick cast those same spells cand casting them that way could tie into mitigation some how.
I agree with you. People who are anti-tank won’t be swayed by new tank classes. But there maybe people on the fence that might be tempted to tank if new tank classes with interesting/unique playstyles are added. Also as someone else said it would also give tank fans a reason to play the new class. Evoker tanks could be really interesting if done in a way that reflects their draconic heritage.
