Ruining Mythic+ for Tanks - Pushing Us Away

Just Punch everyone in the face :rage:

Probably OP plays vanila wow style in m+, and bricks people’s keys. As long as you pull reasonably large, with no extra counts, no troll around pathing, once the key starts, it’s a racing game, none has time to type critiques

I had a +8 Grim Batol, about to be timed, and we get to the last boss, pull with Lust and cooldowns, and because the key holder said something mildly sideways to the tank about 1 minute before, he leaps out of the room, and leaves group.

Some tanks deserve it, especially considering said tank messed up multiple times and nobody said anything at all.

Weird there are 6 tanks, and 6 class sections for them… in which tanks discuss issues with their class. Guess i must have imagined tank posts in tank related class forums.

class forums aren’t tank forums.

That’s like calling wow general discussion a tank forum because there are tanks in wow.

To be fair, that is not really a tank thing. Some people just cannot handle any criticism, even when they are obviously in the wrong.

This is why I usually don’t say much in pugs, unless the issue is really severe. You never know when someone is going to start throwing tantrum over one little comment.

I’ve achieved realm firsts as heals, title as tank, and a variety of other accomplishments as DPS.
I play high keys and I enjoy playing alts in low, low keys.

When I play tank in keys, I see how awful healers can act.
When I play heals in keys, I see how awful tanks can act.
DPS are the best at gaslighting blame because their mistakes aren’t always obvious.

The community as a whole is in an awful state, and it’s clear to me it’s exactly where blizz wants it.
Think about it, blizz could be handling this community behaviour, but instead its left to bots and an easily abused/misused report system, and it’s been this way a loooong time.

Moreover, blizzard constantly tightens up getting all play levels into the exact same content together with different goals and consolidates rewards. This is all by design.
M+ key levels were consolidated.
You can get the same gear from delves which requires no skill then host m+ keys.
People are still buying m+ keys and achieves with gold at a rampant rate.
But good players are expected to play with them right now during prog.

People should be using gaming as way to escape from the bs world we live in, and for a lot of people that means they have to let out how awful they’ve learned to be to others socially.

When has the community not been awful?

People yearning for something that never existed.

And awful comes with a caveat : majority of people are pleasant.

Lots of reasons to doubt there’s more than 3Mil players total.
For one, the total numbers include Cata, SOD, SOM, Classic Era and Hearthstone.
For two, DF didn’t draw anyone in, it lost subs due to mobile gaming systems, politicing, and the evoker pillar feature flop.

This article is saying 2Mil China from this year, but before TWW, which also didn’t bring back players:

[Blizzard’s return to China has already counted over two million interested WoW players | Massively Overpowered (massivelyop.com)](https://massivelyop.com/2024/04/15/blizzards-return-to-china-has-already-counted-over-two-million-interested-wow-players/#:~:text=According%20to%20Blizzard%20China%2C%20over,1%2C000%20resumes%20from%20Chinese%20developers.)