So I finally decided to start running some dungeons last night. It has been a decade or so since I did any serious healing, so I waited until I was a little over-leveled.
I spent an hour last night spamming LFG for normal Ramparts. At any given time there were three groups all looking for DPS. All of the tank and healing spots were taken. I saw one other healer spamming as well, but he was looking for BF too. After about 20 minutes, he finally got picked up for BF.
You’ve reached the end of the rope… It’s not that we didn’t run them. It’s that we ran them long ago and maybe you are not playing on a alt friendly day? The logic is simple too.
But let’s face it there are not many brand new people logging in anymore. If you’re here you’re here. How many alts do we all need? How long does it take an alt to just become another geared out 70?
Eventually we won’t have many new players I’m afraid unless they change the way this game is unfolding.
TBC does not have hardly any new players replacing the ones who have left. Everyone who is still playing already ran all their dungeons in phase 1 and no longer need to run them anymore.
From what we can see on ironforge pro TBC has already lost a massive amount of players and is dying faster than original TBC.
TBC is alt unfriendly with needing rep and attunements for everything. Many people this time around are doing it on 1-2 characters with their guilds and have done so already. You’re going to have a hard time some days getting dungeons or rep.
While I made the post to make a point (and you apparently got it) it doesn’t make my post untrue. I have seen so many threads complaining that there are no tanks for normal dungeons, but I had a complete opposite experience last night.
Anecdotal evidence does not prove fact, but I have had a very different experience than the prevailing voices on this forum.
I’ve seen this too on my realm. Healer/Tank teams looking for and not finding any DPS. Heck I went with two of them once as the only DPS for the reg dungeon. We still flew through it lol.
It’s sad man. I was the biggest TBC fanboy there was. I joined classic in the hopes of one day playing TBC again. When TBC came I leveled before almost everyone on my server. Got all my reps, had everything planned.
Then, while waiting for P2 (forever), I realized I wasn’t having any fun and quit lol. Blizzard really made a lot of stupid mistakes imho, and the playerbase was full of retailbrains. SMDH
If the OP was correct about the majority groups, I would happily switch to a DPS over being a tank. Sadly what the OP is referring to a server specific situation, at specific time, were the stars aligned for that 1 out of 1000 chance groups needing DPS over tanks and healers. In every other situation, this not the case.
What’s funny is it’s not totally off the mark. This will be my 3rd level 70 and I planned to level almost exclusively in dungeons, because I’d be able to tank. What I’ve found though is I’m DPSing as cat probably more often than I’m tanking. I find there are a lot of groups missing DPS. Maybe everyone got wise and at the same time decided it would be nice to have a tank alt for instant groups and it blew up in all our faces lol.
I noticed this on my server last night. It seems like a lot of players (and a friend) rolled a tank/healer team. I saw tons of groups looking for 3 dps, and some seemed to take a while to fill.
I think it seems to depend on server, time of day, and just how many people are around running the instances you’re wanting to run.
I’ve been leveling this pally, pretty much solely through dungeon runs, and have been able to find groups relatively easily for most dungeons. Running LBRS at the moment.
I keep sets for any role, and expected to be mostly tanking. But so far, I’ve run more instances as DPS than as Tank, and mostly (almost always) as healer, since that seems to be the lacking role (while leveling).
Will hit Outland pretty soon, and expect things to change a bit as I get closer to max level and being talented into a role starts to become more important.
So go as damage? You’ve got inner fire, focused power, force of will, power infusion, and reflective shields. It’s not like normal dungeons need the best damage to be completed.
