I’ve often wondered this, but when you look at tanks, there are three plate classes, each can tank. There are four leather classes, three can tank, there are now three mail classes, none can tank. This make sense to anyone else?
I don’t understand why none of the mail wearing classes have a tank spec when so many leather ones do. Sure, hunters have a tank pet, but so do warlocks really.
It just seems odd there are no mail wearing tanks. Rangers in EQ used to sort of be able to tank. Early on shamans could equip shields and passably tank a little bit if it wasn’t too nasty.
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That lasted as long as shaman could tank.
Sorta in the first vanilla release.
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SV should’ve been a tank spec. I’ve been saying that since Legion.
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Shamans tanked in Cataclysm pretty well, same with Beast Master Hunter, and Demonology Warlock when they had Metamorphosis.
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But I’d rather see tanking that isn’t just using the pet.
It could be a combo of both. Like SV and BM dps arenow. IDK I think it’d be cool.
It’s weird but yeah just something they decided on.
you mean body type 1 tanks
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Evoker should’ve had a tank spec. But then, since they couldn’t even make them take the correct amount of damage when an attack hits them, who knows how Blizzard would’ve implemented a tank spec.
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I want a clothy tank for once.
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I still see more mail tanks than femail tanks though have run with some pretty good ones.
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Evoker tank would have been fun, I would have actually tried that
A shaman tank based around earth elemental magic is such an obvious concept. I would play the heck out of it.
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I thought it strange at the time that Demon Hunters weren’t a Mail class. Just to even out the armor distribution problem.
Leather-wearers STILL have problems, simply because there are so many Leather wearers compared to all other armor types.
I always liked the notion of the dual wielding Ranger tank, but they decided to make the DH instead. The EQ version had partial shared druid style powers, minor heals and buffs, easily could have been one of the hunter specs.
Rework hunters, bm tanks, mm ranged no pet, survival pet hunters
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Yeah if you think about it
Plate wearing classes - three, 9 specs
melee dps specs - five
melee tank specs - three
heal specs - one
Mail wearing classes - three, 8 specs
Melee dps specs - two
Ranged dps specs - four
Heal specs - two
Leather wearing classes - four, 12 specs
Melee dps specs - six
Ranged dps specs - one
Tank specs - three
Heal specs - two
Cloth wearing classes - three, 9 specs
Ranged dps specs - seven
Heal specs - two
Seven heal specs
Six tank specs
Twelve ranged dps specs
Thirteen melee dps specs
It even would make sense to have another tank spec, and mail has the least overall specs too.
If we were to make a Mail tank my vote is for an earth-based Shaman spec.
I just want a tank class that has a ranged spec as well. I like to DPS as ranged but I enjoy tanking as well, but there is no class that fits that bill except for Druid and I hate Druids cause shapeshifting is stupid.
Shaman, Hunters, and Warlocks should all have a tank spec IMO.
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No more tanks, please.
Blizzard can’t even handle the tanks they have now. Just look at the appalling state of gameplay for Druid and Monk tanks, currently.
It’s just odd that DH wasn’t a Mail class in the first place.
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