And not buffing tanks.
Does the dev team not realize us tanks struggle with aggro already?
That this is one of the worst expansions for tanks and you are losing the tank population because of it?
Seriously you want to buff all these dps classes which is fine I’m sure they need it.
But then forget that tanks need damage too in order to get aggro as we only have single target taunt.
Is there not one dev who plays tank? This is getting worse and worse each weak with your class buffs.
STOP NEGLECTING US
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Agreed, buff prot paladins please!
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Threat is fine, dps are just not using their brain and letting tanks get threat, and dump CDs into targets that are only being held to the tank with a single aoe from the tank it received.
L2 target of target and tanks aggro won’t ever be an issue.
Note: this is coming from a lock who’s threat was so high during meta in cata I was assigned to tank adds on some heroic bosses while I was bursting. So I know what I’m talking about with people not backing off with threat, because i had to do it a lot.
They can buff tanks… but demon hunters are still going to be prefered in about 50-66% of groups because of magic damage buff.
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Hrmm doesn’t quite work that way.
The buffs to DPS are to bring them in line with other existing classes/specs. That shouldn’t make a difference to your ability to hold aggro.
I play tank on Guardian. Usually if I am at risk of losing aggro I drop an Ursols Vortex and Thrash/Mangle depending on it I am in incarnation or not. Not sure how Protection does it, but you guys should have similar tools too.
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Really, the only times I lose threat are:
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the DPS are attacking a mob not in my kill zone (caster that needs interrupted to move,ranged that needs to be LoSd)
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The DPS blow their load on pull then kite AWAY from me
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I never get it in the first place because DPS pull and kite away
Tanks have issues but threat isn’t one of them…that’s a player problem, sorry to say
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They already upped our threat modifier.
it was pretty awful before they did that, but it’s generally fine now.
yea if a dps unloads with huge burst, I’ll probably lose threat (guardian druid) if it’s outside of incarn, but I have taunt, and well, they know how to kite.
and if they don’t, they’ll learn 
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Yeah I love DPSing as Shadow Priest this expac. Never been more happy to play a spec with a bit of set-up time. By the time I actually start pushing reasonable numbers on 4+ mobs, tank has had 5-6 seconds to get aggro.
Keep buffing underperforming DPS specs. We love doing damage.
Look, if you’re losing threat as a tank rn, it’s a ‘you’ thing, not the fault of a 3% buff here and a 5% buff there to underperforming DPS.
The only times I struggle with aggro are if I try to pull when Avenger’s Shield has like 4+ seconds left on the CD and Divine Toll is down or if things got real messy and I’m nuking WoGs at people instead of DPSing (because saving 4 people from imminent death > keeping 1 person from facetanking for a second, even if they die).
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Tanks really don’t need dmg tho, when they have threat modifiers.
I’d personally love it if they buffed the modifiers by 200%, then reduced the actual damage by 75%.
but hey that’s me
This is what separates a newbie from an actual scrub.
The newbie will learn, the scrub will continue to die and blame the tank/healer for not doing their job.
Then… Yell at me for not brezing them.
I’ve seen many tanks do this, I’m starting to wonder… It’s there a tank school? And is this lesson 1:01?
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Tanks need a little love for sure
This has been been said every expansion.
So that would double your threat, but cut your dps into a quarter of its original, thereby reducing the overall threat generation…so you feel that tanks need to have less threat than they currently do? Odd…
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They have been buffing tanks, albeit indirectly.
They’ve been nerfing some of the stuff that kills tanks regularly. That equates to the same thing as a buff, you just don’t see bigger numbers on your screen.
Also, you have an absurd amount of threat generation as a tank. Truly absurd. And if you think you don’t, you haven’t been playing this game for much of its history.