League of legends, dota, RuneScape, swotr, guild wars. Every single game I can think of has tanks that are accepted and apart of the pvp scene. Wow is the only game where the general player base qq”s about them non stop. Can we finally just get a tank redesign so they aren’t so toxic but have them be viable and competitive?
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I’d like to see every tank get a “gladiator stance” type of thing in PvP personally.
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no because people will still find excuses to cry about them.
Suck it up and move on, your spec is toxic.
buff brew & blood thx
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They have a place - BGs/RBGs.
There are so few players in an arena match that adding tanks on top of healers makes it hard to balance due to not enough DPS.
Exacerbated by the fact that it’s a deathmatch format rather than objective based.
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Just make it so you can’t queue tank healer
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I agree with this.
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im curious if youve actually played guild wars 1 in the past 1-2y to see avatar of lyssa appear in the meta, or were accidentally right by naming every mmo u could think of / saying gw when talking about gw2
cuz its a fairly recent innovation in a dead scene/game so im surprised to see it mentioned on the wow forums
Tanks in rated PVP, esp a game like WoW are problematic to balance.
A moba is one thing, an MMO is another. Given the nature of WoW and our creators issue with balance.
Tanks usually fall on the “I can kill you, but you can’t kill me” line. All over the arena, poor position/cd usage and still incredibly difficult to punish when they are strong.
To reinforce that “I can kill you, but you can’t kill me”
Thats only fun for one party involved, and also why I suspect people que as tank to begin with.
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Oh boy, in before the prot paladins with 8 immunes, 40k instant wogs, and infinite mana tells you they’re actually squishy 
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I doubt anyone would be fighting hard for tank presence if they were relegated to pure utility and virtually zero damage/healing. Nor would anyone have any problem with them if they were a explicit support and peel role, while still being very mortal and very killable.
There you have your tank in PVP, now peel and support and protect your team. Emphasis on protect your team since you do little to no damage/healing.
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down 50 rating on main, 130 on his alt. 🥲
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You bring up games who’s PVP pales in comparison to WoW’s tanks work in those games for a number of reasons but in wow they dont work well at all they’re either completely awful or completely broken. If you want to tank go do an RBG or PvE. Areans become warped when you add a prot paladin who can insta heal everyone, never has to cast, has multiple immunities its not fun to play against nor is it exciting. I’ve never played against a prot paladin and be like oh yes im going to win this easily, I go oh look someone who wants to just cheese to glad thats cool.
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Prot pally really not doing so hot after it got balanced, eh?
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It was a cool concept in what, WoD? When they had Demonolgists actually throwing chaos magic at you?
Don’t care, shut up, get decent at ret.
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I do not agree with that mindset.
I think every spec should be viable. Telling someone to “shut up” and to play another spec is not really contributing at all to the discussion at hand.
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This isn’t any of those games where you have to survive massive damage constantly coming in during mythic boss encounters.
Mobas don’t count… runescape is absolute garbage, SWTOR is a great game but let’s be real, no one plays it for PVP. Guild Wars, doesn’t follow the holy trinity like WOW does.
I don’t care about Tanks in PVP tbh… just figured why not have this discussion? Tanks are also a big part of PVP, RBGs anyone? Maybe I’m not paying attention, but I’ve seen no complaints about tanks outside of prot pallies.
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5 Stages of Grief:
- denial
- anger <— Stunandbad is here
- bargaining
- depression
- acceptance
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Did I miss something.
People hate tanks because they’re tanks.
People who want tanks to exist don’t care if they’re a utility role, it’s like playing lulu in league, you’re just there tomake your ADC look good.
PEOPLE ENJOY THAT.