This is just for funsies…
Attention all Tanks!
Please sign this “petition” if you agree that the only tank shortage solution is to roll a Tank!
Enough of these Tank Shortage threads!
Tanking takes a different kind of mindset and appeals to only a few. Not everyone has “it”
Whether you agree with Dual Spec or not, retail is proof that it doesn’t work well enough to solve any role shortage and it helps exasperate loot-rolling stress!
I ask that you post on a a class with tank capabilities… pure DPS, your opinion doesn’t matter. Healers…whatever lol
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This is a great thread. Roll tank. Get to 70. Be in extremely high demand for five man content. Be in the absolute bottom of demand for raid content.
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Lol, finding a raid spot. I suggest you make friends
I quit 2 weeks in(2 days ago). Constantly catering to noob melee’s ripping aggro by going ham right after pull or shammy healers throwing out a chain lightning as I’m LOS’ing to group mobs…and I’m a prot warrior. Rather than get arthritis mashing all my skills to maintain the mobs, panicking trying to save everyone, and plainly just having to work harder than everyone else I quit. When these people wipe the group I don’t see any of them paying for my repairs (bc prot warriors are great farmers of gold). It was all just too much for me, and I shouldn’t be stressing out over a game I was looking forward to play – or dread logging in bc a lot of the idiots friended me and would hound me to tank for them. The only way to kick the addiction was to give all my money away for free, so if I had the urge to login it would diminish quickly bc I would remember I’m a poor tank. The GOGOGOGOGO mentality is toxic.
Do ppl not pug raids in classic ?
He doesn’t know about raid pugging, but he’s special* in that way, if you know what I mean.
With the introduction of 10 man raiding I seriously don’t see this anywhere near as bad as you try and make it sound. It is extremely easy to get a group for Kara together with two tanks, it is also easy enough to rotate tanks through groups as content progresses. I mean most guilds these days will even funnel gear to DPS that can tank on the chance they need a tank to fill in for content because you know… tank spots are limited and the gear isn’t in as much of a demand.
Roll tank, get through content. Find a guild and DPS for them and have two specs geared up at the same time as limited need vs supply and win the game.
Maybe if you’re trash. lol
There are some different PuG styles… Usually there are pre-arranged soft-res groups, GDKPs, or sometimes MS > OS. Though, I’ve formed both GDKP and MS > OS raid groups on the fly quite a few times, mostly preferring the former.
Since they are segmented like this, the reward for players who are already geared is greatly diminished in an MS > OS run, and they tend to attract the least/worst geared (which isn’t exactly the equivalent of least/worst skilled or experienced, but somehow seems to be not far off).
Even so, even the 22 dual wield fury warriors in raids were getting funneled tank gear. It isn’t as big an issue as he’d like us to believe.
Maybe, but I don’t think most raid groups, even pugs, in TBC will take DPS warriors over ranged DPS most of the time. Even a Ret Pally is often more useful than a DPS warrior, for the +crit, and extra buffs.
Arms warrior brings a damage debuff to target. If your’e looking to min/max buffs and debuffs you will want at least one.
That’s physical dmg, and yeah… one DPS warrior is enough. In a smaller group, like heroics or kara, it’s maybe more than enough. Depending on group composition.
The point I was making though is that you won’t have the majority of your raid’s DPS classes be warriors, and get funneled gear like you did in Classic. It isn’t a high-demand class/spec/or role anymore.
Reppin’ the warlock tanks.
Thats why I’m leveling my pally as prot for TBC.
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If they want a tank so bad, they should roll one themselves.
No petition is necessary to state the obvious. Every warrior on horde side should be leveling as protection in outlands unless you just don’t want to do dungeons. We don’t have the luxury of human/dwarf paladins already at 60. We have to wait for the elves to catch up.
petition to quest more instead of farming dungeons