As it is op I doubts it very much the Devs would change their minds on making some classes tanks or make melees be heals.
This will last until the next raid tier where melee sticking on bosses will be as difficult as trying to swallow week-old Taco Bell.
Petition for all classes having the specs to tank, heal, and DPS.
ESO had the right idea about their class design, tough shame about their combat system.
Honestly I’d play a tank spec if my rogue had one. It’s such a pita to have to switch now and I’ve invested too much into my rogue to want to switch.
Although now would be a good time to switch if I wanted to, haven’t really been in invested in SL.
Alternatively they should let players pick a fourth and 5th spec that lets them tank or heal from another class. If they already have these they can pick other specs.
May as well just go full FF14 and let one character shift between every class with a button press, at that rate.
I actually liked that about ff14. But seriously I been wanting to tank on my shaman for a while. I am still waiting for a shaman tank spec, but I could just as easily take a prot warrior spec and thunder clap my way into queues.
It’s usually pretty easy to switch at a major patch because of catch-up gear.
we went from only 1 tank class to 6 and the tank shortage never changed. even early wrath with absolutely OP DKs who could tank in all 3 spec,
even in classic where fury warrior are THE uncontested big daddy DPS spec… and the fury-prot tanking spec is really just a DPS warrior with plate armor and DPS’ing from defensive stance instead of being in leather.
what make you think more tank classes will bring more tank player now, when it didn’t in the past?
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Right, if you’re the kind of sicko that loves to tank the class selection is probably not holding you back.
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I do it all the time. It’s mostly a great experience.
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Well, let’s see. They could rename the spec to something that makes sense and more clearly states the intent of the spec… or they could bend over backwards and spend untold amounts of time and effort uprooting the spec and changing it to the least popular role ill-fitting of the class and most likely drive away the tiny remaining playerbase that wasn’t already driven away by making it melee. Hmm, wonder why they won’t go for it 
They renamed combat, they could have renamed survival. They were already rebuilding the spec back then. They had a perfect chance to give more classes more roles.
I think they would upset some of the people who play those specs if they changed the spec to fit a different role.
All I’ll say is this… if BM becomes a tank spec, I will quit the game. Its the only remaining fun class for me in this game.
This is true. However, as a healer main I wouldn’t say no to more healer specs/classes in the future. I’m just not sure there is a concept they can do that isn’t at least partially covered by the others…or really stupid.
They want to keep experimenting with added power and stuff, maybe it’s time to look into some sort of MMO-limited multiclassing?
Adding more tank specs or classes won’t increase the number of tanks. If you want more tanks, tell Blizz to stop adding affixes that require tanks to be tour guides. I have a lot of fun tanking keys below 10. Unfotunately the special season affix requires tanks to show up like Lewis and Clark with a mapped route through the dungeon accounting for each percent of trash mob killed. It’s not fun. It’s stressful and it’s a layer of micromanagment that no other role has to worry about.
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