Personally I like tanking but I’m not a fan of many current options. I’ve never enjoyed warrior or paladin and certainly not demon hunter.
I used to tank on this druid but guardian is in the pits these days. I currently tank on a monk and death knight, but I know if I had better options I would take them.
Mage is one of those classes i want to like, but I’m just not a fan of pure dps classes and especially not a Fan of how mage specs currently play. I sure as hell would try tanking on my mage If it were an option.
Tanking for a guild vs pugging isn’t going to be fixed by “every class has a tank spec!!”. Some people just don’t like to tank, might be an off spec they aren’t good at and get turned off. It’s not going to get people to tank for random groups in the finder. I’ve had some really good groups and I’ve had some horrible groups pugging. Someone pulls extra and your aoe is on cooldown or you just used your taunt and they cry “GET IT OFF ME!!” and if you don’t you’re a bad tank who should just quit.
There isn’t really anything Blizz can do about the people so there isn’t anything they can do to fix it. I used to pug random heroics just to be helpful. You would think a random bunch of low ilvl people would enjoy having a 440 geared tank take the time to help them. NOPE I got screamed at so many times because i didn’t take the path like the method video did or how they do it on their tank.
Juice just isn’t worth the squeezing when you can tank for guildies who at least appreciate you helping them.
What we NEED are for people to stop treating new tanks like complete trash and yelling/screaming/crying because they aren’t tanking how THEY want them. Instead of “PULL MORE” say something like “It’s ok tank you can pull more I can handle it”. Instead of “OMFG you suck” “Hey we don’t need these can we please skip/go around them?”. Or “You’re super squishy are you using ?”. Less holery and more socialization would go MILES towards more tanks. Adding new specs/classes will do nothing to alleviate the lack of tanks.
I can see a shaman tank. But a rogue and hunter? Not even close. A rogue well obvious reason a rogue could be a thief or something that isn’t very mighty, and hunters has pets that tank for them outside of dungeons and raids.
Instead of those two we could just have a new class with a tank spec in the expansion after shadowlands or if they take their time on shadowlands and finish everything before drop date then they can talk about a class for the remaining time. Let’s just fix the classes we have now and wait.
It’s not a lack of choices it’s playing the role which turns people away. At least it does for me. Having all the pressure on me to do everything sounds bad.
As a previous tank main all i want to do is be able to do my world quests in the same speed and not take 5x longer for a world quest and be forced into not having a offspec, i would TOTALLY be up for tanking and using TWO SPECS… if blizzard had SPEC SPECIFIC AZERITE TRAITs on armor… or didn’t multiply respec costs 64x times (2^6) each respec and made you wait a whole WEEK to do one respec. Without having timegated gear and needing to worry about buildling two BIS sets while 1 is already hard and not even guarenteed enough. Still never rolled a third furious gaze. )
If they’re making a group specific spec, great, but why can’t i play my questing spec even when im already grinding azerite traits and worrying about 2x as much essences!? Why can’t we say get offspec azerite for 30% of the cost after our first piece for offspecs.
If tanking boosted rep or offered tokens to get essences quicker I’d agree but AP really isn’t as much of an issue these days unless you REALLY need to sqeeze an alt to end game. I also agree with Vaelian in that
is a big problem especially if you’re unlucky with armor drops as RNG often is. Edit: I should add getting weapons/shields that are close to end game would also help since a good shield especially for warr is extremely important.
New tank classes won’t solve the problem. A large portion of the playerbase has a natural aversion to responsibility and the tank spec is filled with it. Along with naturally abrasive DPS willing to pounce upon the slightest mis-step. It’s a formula for a limited tank population.
Blizzard needs to find away to cut back tank responsibility in groups and find something to do about GOGO dps.
I like the New affix boss, but they reallly REALLLY need to do something about really bad healers not taking it, or have a tweak for once it’s toggled to take every player within a 3 meter radius into it. AFK radio Healers are the worst standing god knows where 30 miles away to miss and stare at the portal forever while the group attrittions and dies and the healer goes “oh lol mb let me “gets one shot””
I will probably only ever play tanks at this point, I like learning route changes, new strats, helping people complete keys, making new friends etc. But some of the DPS in pugs are the worst human beings in the entire world. I have 1000 positive interactions for every 1 negative so it balances out but for a new tank holy crap prepare for some really toxic terrible players in the mythic 0s, timewalking, and pre 10 keys.
This game HAS NEVER had a new ranged class. Particularly a new ranged caster.
It’s ridiculous. IMO, they need to ditch pure DPS classes, give mages healing, give warlocks healing, give rogues tanking, and give hunters tanking or something.
Monks should have a ranged caster spec (HADOKEN)
DK’s should have a necromancer caster spec
Warriors should have a pet dps spec
Rogues really should also have a ranged spec
Shaman should have a tanking spec based on Earth elements
Priests should get a holy dps caster spec or melee holy based caster spec
Druids get nothing
And Pallies and Demon Hunters should be deleted because they are dumb.
Just kidding (not really.)
Pallies should get a caster dps spec (SHOCKADIN)
Demon Hunters get nothing. Because demo locks exist already.
None of this will ever happen. I posted this for fun and because I’m bored.