if you need more tanks, be nicer to them. player-made problem.
Play WoT then
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I stopped playing tank because I could only play half of the game. I used to main a BrM tank, from WoD to BfA.
PvP? No tanks allowed, so I stopped playing one. I really enjoy PvP.
Solo Shuffle? Tanks cannot queue.
Maybe if they made it so tanks could do more than just tank, I’d be more about it.
The fact that players are jerks to tanks is the rotten cherry on top. DPS get a free pass for anything they do, while I’m expected to know Mythic + routes and get yelled at for pulling one additional pack…
DPS is easy, and everyone likes an easier time in a video game.
I do tank, just not for pugs. There’s nothing anyone can do or say that will ever convince me to ever tank for a pug again. So long as I have a guild I will tank solely for them.
Want more tanks? Put group responsibility on someone else’s shoulders. Problem will be solved.
I’ve been a tank since Legion - I love how Vengeance plays. And I’ve often been tempted to try dungeons/raids. But I don’t want that responsibility and the crap that comes with it.
Perhaps dungeons and raids should include a group leader option, instead of it automatically falling on the tank. Let’s see how fast damage-dealers (or healers) pick up the mantle.
EDIT: When fighting, eg, a super rare with other players, I instinctively look to protect them (eg, have the rare facing me away from the others). I like doing that. So I’m not against tanking, per se.
I tried and liked tanking, but dealing with toxic hard headed people made me quit. Then you have dps that run ahead of tank and pull then get mad when you let them die.
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having gotten KSM/Ksh on pretty much every role they’re all equally annoying to push in pugs with. it’s not just tanking lol that’s for sure
Not what we’re asking for at all, not even close. We’re asking for it to just be 5 tanks.
If there’s a tank shortage, why is it every key I want to join already has a tank ?
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Someone said tanks are ruining dungeons, so I guess with no tanks signing up they are happy now.
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even pet battles??
jk, jk. but i agree, we need more tanks. if they gave us some more demon-hunter races, i’d be learning to tank… vengeance looks so fun, but i really don’t want to play an elf…
I’m not tanking anymore because my eyes aren’t the best anymore and I don’t want yelled at.
I’ll stand back and pew pew.
Im already playing at tank and let me tell ya… I do my job well but people are ungrateful as heck… I dont do it for thank yous or recognition but people are rude AF to tanks.
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If they increased m+ group size you’d get more value out of a tank. Even going from 5 man to 6 man would be a 33% increase in dps per tank.
I’m less afraid of a M+10 with guildies than I am a Normal random dungeon finder.
Give me 400000 dollars
It costs 400000$ for a tank to deal with a pug for twelve seconds
Nobody wants to pug tank. You either get whined at for going too fast or whined at for going too slow.
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I tank but still learning and is just scare to wipe pugs so I only practice with guilds.
My fear is not knowing where to go and count the % of trash so I might get yell at by others
Nothing will ever get me to play a tank other than giving me an actual tank
Your premise of there being a tank shortage…especially in “all content” is downright laughably wrong. In fact, it is so wrong it is literally the exact opposite.
There is a MASSIVE tank glut in ALL forms of content except for, at most (and arguably not even there), random queue content which is content that doesn’t matter at all.
Literally, tanks are so prolific and abundant that you even see people questing as a tank. The significant but not devastating loss in single target damage is more than made up by their massive AOE/cleave damage and self sustain. Like I can do 16-20k single target damage on my own without really trying but I can go pull packs and packs of elites and regular stuff and blow it all up and be perfectly fine and safe too…something if I tried as a DPS spec, I’d be paste on the ground before finishing rounding up even half of what I can pull.
Now go do a search on guilds recruiting, especially at the heroic+ level and find how many are desperate for tanks. Go see how many PvP groups are chomping at the bit hoping tanks sign up. Go do your average world boss and see something like 10+ tanks in a full 40 man group and count yourself lucky if you even get 3 healers.
Same thing for melee DPS. It’s an absolute disgusting glut to this point the game should be called world of meleecraft.
Nobody cares that you struggle to find a tank willing to tank your worthless heroic. That content isn’t relevant the moment mythic 0 and keys open up.