Not sure. It feels like a missed opportunity imo.
Red/Blue is for damage
Bronze/Green for healing
Black with a touch of green and red for tanking.
I’m glad they added a new ranged dps to the game after eighteen years, but it just feels weird that a dragon CAN’T tank.
Does it have to be about that though? Some folks only like to tank.
Ok, from that perspective it makes sense.
Why not ask why every race should have a tank spec?
Well, I am hoping for better mobility for some range classes, such as Warlocks for example. I am not saying Warlocks have no mobility, considering they’re designed around tanking punching bags, but with all the fast timing of stuff, from Mythic+ for example where timing is everything, if trying to time it to push it, than that is where the extra mobility will help.
And how is adding another class to tank going to solve that? The problem with tanking is the toxicity of people have towards the tanks.
That’s my point, it wouldn’t.
Alot of the people concerned are more interested in the fact that they like tanking but also like dragons so they either
I am likely to reroll the new class if the powers interest me will definitely try it out on PTR which means I wont be tanking pug raids anymore and likely will have to start making my own pugs (so I can be the evoker in the party).
I will likely keep my DK around as he was my first character but lets be honest I dont have the time to run two characters at a high level so its likely the DK would become a pvp only character.
As someone who loves tanking but prefers to play ranged dps, not having an option outside of druid really sucks. Im not a person who enjoys Boomkin so I end up just having to play melee dps or keeping up 2 characters a lot of the time. Adding a tank role to this class would be really helpful to those of us who like to tank and dps but prefer to dps as ranged as there is currently only 1 option in game for that. And imo its the least fun in both roles
False. There is no tank shortage ESPECIALLY for raiding.
There is, at worst, a tank shortage for queue content and maybe low key content, but low key content is more of a low body issue and definitely a lack of quality player issue. Low keys are just utter cesspools of the far left of the bell curve who largely all suck but lack the awareness to realize they are every bit the problem as their fellow participants
Queue dungeon content would easily be solvable by scaling things like Visions, Torghast, and even lowbie isle dungeon…just pluck 5 bodies and throw them together and scale the mobs according to the roles in the group.
Your think your half baked idea is going to make it into production? Just stop, it is a RDPS/Healer. That is all.
We all are facing limitations as to what we want to do.
Makes no sense why a dragon isent a tank
They would make cool tanks
Hey or we could simply have 3 specs, wow crazy concept.
You act as if they have too remove 1 spec to add another.
Honestly, yeah. They’re children of the Earthwarden. Tanking is, like, a necessity.
Okay, then do you have some advice about my actual post? The original post has NOTHING to do with solving any problem. Unless the problem is you wanting this new class/race to have tanking capabilities, in which case, this is the right place.
Please stop talking about solutions to a problem that can’t be fixed, like having more tanks, and focus on feedback about the ideas presented in the original post…
I’d actually like to see a Warlock tank spec for Demonology (still salty they stole our form to give to DHs), or especially one for Shamans. I’m fine with them leaving this as a ranged only class, there’s a ton of melee already without adding more.
I am with you on the Demonology form. It is different not only visually, but also in its effect, from the Demon Hunter class’ Demon Form. Not sure why Demonology had to sacrifice its form…
As for tanking as a shaman or lock makes no sense lore wise, so why? Is there some kind of shaman tank? It would be cool to see, though I see that never ever happening.
However, lorewise, it makes sense for there to be a tanking spec. That is it. No fixing of tanking problems, and all tanks are melee…so saying we don’t need another melee spec, is not the same as saying we need another melee dps. Tanks, while often capable of high-damage throughput, they are not full dps. They have different roles.
Now, if you were concerned about another dps class being melee, then I would agree. We have MORE than enough melee dps to last several more expansions lol.
However, this is all about making sure to fulfill that class fantasy, that in this case…is also the race fantasy being introduced. It makes more sense to have a Drakthyr be a tank, than it does for them to NOT be a tank. Really think on it before you post again, or respond. Not saying anything there, just saying to genuinely think on it. I promise you, the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. Even my GF, who only knows the lore all halfcaulked and second-hand from me, says it makes sense.
Akama would be probably the best example, though Thrall rocking platemail and the Doomhammer is a close second. Just seems to make sense for the Elements; Fire - Elemental, Air - Enhancement, Water - Restoration, Earth - Tanking
I don’t have an advice because I don’t care that it can’t tank. Monk couldn’t range dps. Demon Hunter couldn’t range dps or heal. This one can heal and can range. Not all classes should be able to do all roles. Tank doesn’t make sense with evoker. If it was just dragonkind class or something sure, and evoker was just the range spec. But evoker? Nope.