Saying arenas are made with healers in mind is such a cope lol. Theyre designed for 3 people to work as a team be it 3 dps, dps/tank/healer, tank/2dps, or healer/2dps.
This tank hate is blown completely out of proportion and is being voiced by a very loud and try-hard minority. We always hear from people who dont like tanks and never people who do. Makes me wonder how many people who play tanks are minding their business playing the game like blizz intended. Either adapt or lose. I know where youre all coming from because i used to be a tank hater too. But then one day I learned to adapt to my situations and I learned it makes me and others a better player. Either adapt or lose. 0 reason to alienate Billy Bo Bob who plays casually but enjoys prot warr. If its in the game, they can play it in arena. Simple as.
I think the best thing they can do is just literally add a lil checkbox next to the DPS role that lets you opt out of tank games (in return for a longer queue since you’ll be actively cutting the tank/healer role search by half).
Yeah they can do that, but then you will get a bunch of terrible players with inflated rating and egos because all they queue into is their special needs bracket.
Why is this what every one of you keeps telling me
I have no problems adapting with anything; this isn’t about wins or losses
Realistically I will do it better than any of the people I’m conversing with so this is a stupid statement to make. I actively am trying to avoid degrading the conversation down to experience because I think that’s far too basic - but a claim like I can’t adapt or something and that’s my issue is absurdly dumb and is treating it like it’s somehow a l2p issue on my end is absurd.
I know that the skill cap on what I can do as a dps is drastically lowered in an all tank lobby. It just isn’t interesting. Winning or losing a specific lobby does not matter to me at all.
I mean… it’s an OPTION, you CHOOSE to check that box or not.
I doubt they’re going to ban an entire role from game content so this is probably the best we gonna get. Arena is 15 yrs old now and tanks can still queue, doubt they’ll start banning them now.
How does the Elemental Shaman or BM Hunter with a Vengeance on their team adapt to the two melee killing him as soon as wall falls
You’ve got all these specs disproportionately affected by the structure of tank games that the outcome of games is just realistically out of their hands unless the other team just throws
The same could be true in healer matches, but at least they have a bit of time to potentially make something happen rather than just running out of gas by the second DR
Tank/dps/dps just results in such low quality matches that it makes me wonder if it was originally a placeholder to include tanks that they just never got around to really tweaking
Alternatively you just reroll healer I guess and only play that for solo shuffle so you never have to interact in a tank game LOL
Btw we could put this same format on WoTLK and the games would be awful if tanks were in the healer slot; yet Warmane and AT had quite an effective solo q even if you were playing with prot warriors or preg or prot paladins
This format of having two dps and a tank is straight up awful LOL
It really is. I don’t know how they could go about slotting tanks in, but I really hope that they come up with something before the mode ships for real.
If its not about winning or losing then there’s no problem and you’re gatekeeping. I’m not saying you’re bad or you can’t adapt, hell you’re better than me no doubt. I’m saying alienating people who play a role in a bracket that doesn’t mean a lot is silly and much easier for everyone leave it well enough alone and play 3’s like God intended.
