The biggest issue with this game is the lack of tanks

[Trustlvlfour-altar-of-storms]

@Murlocsoup-frostmane

Make a class that can only tank or heal

I’ll take “a class no one will ever play” for $500, Alex.

[Cantaa-barthilas]

@Ussliberty-blackrock

Still, he has a good point about crybabies ruining Vengeance for no good reason.

As much as I miss Vengeance, topping the dps meters as a tank on both single target and cleave fights was kind of absurd.

http://www.worldoflogs.com/ranking/eu-us/siege-of-orgrimmar/dps/

Have to switch it to Heroic 25 but 8 of the 14 fights, tanks are on top.

[Rahkeetahp-aerie-peak]

@Nindraine-moon-guard

What’s less fun, however, is the abuse you get from your fellow players for not being able to handle them pulling everything,

Thats the laughable joke I love most in here. DPS players bragging about soloing the place. That’ll change when SL drops then theyll go back to being paper doll prop ups begging tanky poo to come save them.

I wouldnt even bother with them. Pull for the tank…bye bye…vote kick you go.

They love to leave my 40 ft healing range then cry when they die, lol. I follow the tank. If they arent…tough. I couldnt care less if they die. I’ll laugh while Im hitting the vote kick button.

[Desperado-benediction]

@Zashe-darkspear

It also sucks that if you make tank your MS, you still have to gear up an offspec for pvp. So many people cry about tanks in pvp and blizz hasn’t figured out yet how to make them balanced in pvp. It’s just more work to gear/learn a tank spec only to realize it’s not pvp capable, at least at higher ratings.

It would be nice to be able to have a tank spec available for the maps that it’s beneficial on, but they disabled spec swapping in BGs to balance out the number of healers on each team. Now if you have 3 tanks its either an auto win (geared, lots of corruption) or an auto loss. Played one with a 1.2m hp warrior this morning and we won temple of kotmogu in about 5 minutes.

[Aneris-stormrage]

There is no solution.

I tank for my friends when we run our characters through M+
I love it, its a lot of fun.

But you wouldn’t catch me dead trying to Tank in a PuG. Even if I know i’d do fine.

[Ulfred-madoran]

As a former LFD tank I can tell you, speed running is what removed me from the instance.

[Mjosura-illidan]

50 Echoes in the CTA goodie bags would keep me constantly in queue

[Jamessteel-aerie-peak]

I was gonna ask why you want tanks in this game, but then I realized you meant the tank class, not the vehicle kind.

I do agree, we could use more tank players in this game rather than healers and damagers.

[Shirt-wyrmrest-accord (Shirt)]

I’d tank if I weren’t going to get constantly verbally berated because I’m rusty at tanking.

[Zarkah-fenris]

It’s too bad I can only heart your comment once because you nailed it!

[Warzug-mankrik]

@Tewa-hyjal

If you guys want more tanks, the tanks need content to do.

Because right now, this is just another selfish thread of “We want more tanks for our 5-man content, but they shouldn’t have any place in raids or PvP.”

Lmao, this

Most of these tank complain threads seem to boil down to “i want ON-DEMAND tanks for my 5-man Mythic+ runs, where are the tanks??”

Tanks getting left out of PvP or other non Mythic+ activities? “Who cares”

[Ulldanzar-trollbane]

I will have to agree… I enjoy tanking so much more at the beginning of an xpac when we are all undergeared and just learning the dungeons. People tend to actually laugh at wipes and are much more pleasant, actually try to take their time and learn. Then it goes down hill towards the end when they expect everyone to know it.

[Bendain-dalaran]

The answer to this is easy, make taunt an aoe, problem solved. You just make tanking brain dead and skilless but solve so many problems as well

[Humanìty-area-52]

I would tank on my warrior if I didn’t have to grind for essences and do weekly / daily chores for cloak.

[Sargeria-icecrown]

I think one of the reasons why there might be so few tanks is probably because there are so many people who complain about how bad tanks are while in dungeons etc. Ive tried to tank a few times myself only to be kicked because I wasn’t good enough for them, that made me want to give up on tanking completely. Nobody is perfect, and practice makes perfect so don’t be taking it out on our tanks. Another thing they also say is that tanks should know boss fights but its not the tanks fault for not knowing, the instance leader is supposed to know and explain it if needs to be, the dungeon finder actually says this if you read the role description. The pressure is on alright.

[Mohamedaleaf-emerald-dream]

I love tanking.

I hate needing separate essences and separate gear to be viable.

Considering the problem mainly affects pugs… Perhaps having a gear system that requires more from pugs than slapping on a shield is the problem.

[Aruk-llane]

@Cantaa-barthilas

Tanks can do good dps now with the right corruption, my main easily does over 100k dps on trash pulls.

Let us know when you pull ahead of equally geared dps that are not asleep on single target fights.

[Hambamwam-illidan]

I’d tank more if DPS weren’t such duckheads in groups.

[Meriweather-thunderlord]

@Quenya-shadow-council

It isn’t a problem of spec. It is mainly (this is my opinion) the abuse tanks have to put up with in groups, especially PUGs.

This. This is the beginning, middle, and end of it. Normal, decent people experience either frustration, anxiety, or anger when tanking in this community, so most players either refuse the role altogether or will only consent to tank in closed friend/guild groups.

[Nighteman-thrall]

Basically. I tried tanking on my DK. First dungeon people were super toxic

2nd dungeon they pulled for me

3rd dungeon they kicked me bc I wasnt chain pulling

My DK is now unholy. My warrior will never change from Fury and my paladin sits unused a level 110 boost used never to be played again.

I stopped healing on my shaman for that same reason too…ppl just too toxic anymore

Ok I would try shaman tanking js…