A lot of the dps gear and even trinkets that specs use are used in Tanking. There is a lot of gear overlap for most specs, Guardian just happens to be one of the unlucky ones that doesn’t share gear with Feral.
I don’t have to grind world content. I don’t have to grind azerite gear. I don’t have to grind essences. I don’t have to run mythic+ dungeons with some of the nastiest people in the game and pretend I like it. I don’t have to show up for raid on somebody else’s schedule. I don’t have to worry about corruption. I don’t have to worry about my gear getting nerfed.
Yeah that’s exactly the problem. You need essences, which are hard enough to get. But now you gotta level them to rank 3. That’s not enough though! Azerite traits, that’s 3 new slots per spec you want to try and play. Make sure you get the right traits. What’s left? Oh right weapons the most important slot is rarely shared by the tank specs anymore. (RIP 2h frost dk, 2h monk, etc)
After all that is done you of course got to make sure you have the right trinkets. Which is to be expected but that was fine before all this other crap had to be done first. Now it’s just the cherry ontop of a BS sundae. Why were we given the ability to automatically swap specs at our leisure? I feel like that was put into the game for a reason…
A reason Blizzard long forgot. Also heaven forbid your dps and tank specs demand different secondary stats. I don’t get why they finally made it so STR swaps into INT and such but then reduced the importance of primaries and made secondaries so much more essential.
You’re wrong about that. But it is true that twinks no longer queue for bgs.
They still do pve content and wpvp.
That was put into the game because of the backlash in the Legion beta about restrictions on swapping specs during raiding. So they left specs unrestricted and instead required you to be in a rested area to change talents.
Not taking away something would be like having admitted they were wrong.
I sorta meant spec swapping in general. I feel like it’s an amazing gameplay feature that I never get to use since there’s too much ancillary garbage required to play a different role today.
Excellent points. I wouldn’t even wanna tank without an azerite set… essences, trinkets and stat weights make it that much worse. No wonder I stopped tanking past +4’s lolol.
Has nothing to do with gearing. I have a dps set, but I almost never dps, because I don’t like the dps role. Likewise, anyone playing a class that can tank can easily have a tank set, but almost never use it because they don’t want to tank.
Too bad that the majority are not raiders, eh? Because people who can’t do content because of in-game issues that are out of their control are likely to get bored and quit.
There is no shortage of raid tanks. There is a shortage of dungeon tanks to tank content that will keep a large portion of the game population playing.
The only way to solve this is to go back to incentivizing people to be part time tanks. But I don’t see that happening as long as so many people say things like “as long as our guild has two tanks, it doesn’t matter whether anybody out there can run a dungeon”.
Making it harder or more annoying or time consuming to be a part time tank is why there is a shortage in dungeons. The game needs part time tanks, players who will switch for a faster queue.
Right now things are going to hell in a handbasket. I tank a lot of normal dungeons, both on my twinks and on leveling toons.
At this point in the expansion those dungeons are full of players who have zero clue that there are even mechanics in the game. There’s also a contingent that believes only bad players need to do mechanics. Right now those dungeons are full of alts of players who never ran dungeons before. And boosts.
Next month they’re going to be trying to get into your mythic+.