Well sure because threat and mana management will become a joke in wrath.
All you saying DK will all be dps dont remember wrath the way I do(maybe Iām wrong). They were all dps and still tanks. They were aoe threat dps tanks that self healed.
The only tank death knight I remember is 5 Blood DK ramparts.
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Was a very easy heroic tanking experienceā¦ Perhaps more appealing to this younger audience that likes it EZ?
Wait, wotlk heroics had people tanking it?
Iām a bit confused as everything tickled I thought it was a tickle dungeon instead of a dungeon you needed a tank for.
Wotlk heroics were so easy I had my non tank (not a tenacity/turtle) pet without me being a BM hunter being able to tank some of the bosses, let alone trash.
The heroic dungeons were far to easy.
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Wrath will still have a massive tank shortage, but yes the situation is much better than it is here.
- Death knights. A new tank class that starts at 55, basically ready for outlands out of the gate.
- Dual spec. Respec is cheaper in crusade but most people still donāt want to pay it regularly to flip roles. Having to pay a respec to do a dungeon feels like paying a ransom. You donāt want to do it, but youāre being strong armed into doing it. Most people say āno thanks.ā
- Dungeon finder. I donāt like this for max level dungeons but it saved the dead low level brackets. If they just limited it to classic/crusade dungeons, that would be perfect. But knowing them, theyāll just copy/paste.
- Warrior tanking is no longer terrible. Crusade applied a few bandages, but it needed far more work, and it took until wrath for Blizzard to do it. Druid is in the same boat, but bear tanking wasnāt nearly as bad as warrior.
- Heroics are no longer stupidly difficult. In crusade, heroics are far more trouble than they are worth. If it wasnāt for the attunement quests and badge trinkets I doubt most players would ever bother.
Despite all of this, Tanks will still be in short supply. The LFG tool will be near instant for Tanks, very quick for Healers, and 10-20 min for DPS. That being said, the fact that you can just pop your queue and then go do dailies, quest, fish, grind professions, farm, etc, means the LFG chat doesnāt have to be watched, you can relax while waiting, and the stress of finding groups wonāt be nearly such a pain.
I canāt wait for LFG, DKs, Dual Spec, etc. Wrath is a fun time, even despite all the grumpiness over the first and third raid tiers.
We get SUCH better AoE! It still pales compared to a Paladin, but in Wrath everyone can AoE Tank effectively, I loved it. Even DKās needing to setup D&D and diseases to spread for BB spam, you could still outpace people and hold aggro easily, not to mention you had two Taunts between the true taunt and Death Grip.
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Paladin is already quite fun as protā¦it gets better?
Thereās never a tank shortage when you tank.
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Yes, Blizzard is trash at balancing, so they continued the irrational over-buffing of prot pallys and ferals into TBC. People think DKs will be great, because initially in Wrath they were also horrifically OP; but assuming we get he late wrath DKās, they will also be down with the warriors in a strong āmehā level of tanking.
Wrath does basically remove threat as a mechanic though, so a good portion of the current trash tanks at least appear competent; so thereās that.
ā¦wut?
Druids were dramatically nerfed at the start of Wrath and only got additional nerfs moving forward.
DKs and Druids were the only Tanks capable of doing the EH checks on fights like Heroic Anub and Heroic Lich King.
Warriors werenāt āmehā, they just werenāt head and shoulders above the rest and their niche of high mobility, CC, and Block-focused mitigation just didnāt pan out as useful on anything other than OT add duty on fights like Anub and LK.
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Forgot they had to add a satchel to Tank Queue to get tanks to Queue? There was decent amount of downtime in this expansion.
Back then blood was a dps spec too. DKs were just a hero class so it didnāt matter
A blind mouse walking randomly across a keyboard could tank Wrath heroics.
Itās weird how TBC has some of the hardest heroic dungeons ever madeā¦ yet Wrath had the easiest heroics.
I remember noting during Wrath that my warlock could easily survive a melee hit from pretty much any mob in those heroics, but many of the mobs in TBC heroics could still global me.
The difference in difficulty was absolutely bonkers.
prot paladin will be THE tank on wotlk with a literal auto self resurrection ability
you didnāt play WOTLK. because if you did youād know the tank shortage was still present. DKplayers went mainly DPS, and tanks will still tank for their guild mates and not pug. history will repeat itself.
LFD better not be in till the ICC patch as it was. (Exception can be made for anything Classic/TBC).
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Going by history? Nopeā¦
It turned to 100g at the turn of the expansion when cataclysm dropped. It will not release at 100g.
Its not so much that there isnt enough tanks or enough people willing to play them, but rather that tanks gear up VERY quickly from both dungeons and raids as they have no loot competition, so they generally have very little reason to go back.
It is a similar story for Healers.
In wotlk there are many secondary (monetary) uses for the new badges (emblems) such as the new Primal Nethers, Gems or Heirloom Gear, every Tier also has a new set of gear to purchase from these Emblems, not to mention the alt accessibility in WotLK is much easier AND dual spec, all this means that heroics are very alive an active in WotLK.
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