Remove Dampening from Arena, then have Tanks apply the Dampening Aura. So if you have a Team with a Tank on it the other Team takes the Dampening effect that continues to stack like now. If you don’t have a Tank then the other team doesn’t have Dampening.
Tada just like that you need a Tank in Arena, PvP is better and we have comp diversity and more depth/skill in PvP. It’s time for Tanks to be a part of competitive PvP and helping it’s participation grow.
WoW is currently behind in Esports by not including Tanks. We can fix this.
Tanks are squishier than Dps right now. Literally every Dps takes less damage since Tanks take 67% more damage in PvP. I’d rather have less life then get blown up from taking huge dmg.
So obviously we need to lesson the damage Tanks take. So they can provide more utility and fill their role.
I rather fight a Bear than an Spriest, Lock or any of the other Dps that are tankier and have way more damage. At least with this change they now bring something to Arena and can help with adding much needed Depth and diversity to PvP.
Your argument doesn’t work. That’s like saying forcing healers limits diversity. All this does is make it to where if you want Dampening then bring a Tank. You can still play without one just like you can play without a healer.
However this proposed change now just includes everyone to bring a far more diverse comps and strat too competition. Especially AWC. Everyone gonna have a Tank Alt/Comp makes it interesting.
Blizzard can:
1 - Find a way to balance out tanks and allow tank players participate in arena content, like their competition did. For example in FF14 tanks are just DPS jobs, in ESO they specialize in CC and debuffs/buffs, etc.
2 - Just keep nerfing and shadow nerfing tanks until nobody wants to play them in arena at all.
Obviously one of these is easy.
But if they went the harder route they would probably have a better game on their hands.
Exactly. Tanks are just squishy Dps right now and aren’t very good at it. They lack the debuff and tool kit. So applying Dampening in Arena would be a nice change. Or they can just give them the utility of having the most powerful MS, Dispels, Healing absorbs etc.
Exactly! It’s kinda wild that AWC is still a thing. No one watches and it’s not a watchable Esport. The platform itself isn’t very good and it excludes 1 of the major roles in the game.
PvP in this game can be so much more and hope the Devs decide to work on it and make Tanks an important part of it like other competitive games.
To require a role that has 6 specs out of 38 in the game to fill 33% or 50% of slots, that doesn’t seem like
I don’t like playing with tanks because I’m always the kill target and that’s not fun. The tanks can do almost nothing to protect me. If you want tanks to be useful to play with in arena, basically make them all protection paladins. However, I don’t think there’s anything that can be done to make tanks enjoyable to fight against.
This is perception > reality.