Hate to break it to ya, but even a pally or druid tank don’t need to have high versatility for that matter. It’s the class design like they’re built for damage mitigation and having versatility just doubles that, but not every tank class has good designs for pvp. Warriors is one of them since BFA and Shadowlands.
You would think, but even that too doesn’t help in the long run. The class spec got screwed over because they performed so well in Legion. There was complaints about a prot warrior survivability during that expansion and before.
I would agree if this were a MOBA but in wow tanks dont have any more CC than anyone else and often they have less. RPG tanks are literally to absorb damage and sit in there. Like if you use a 3 min O cooldown I use a 3 minute D cooldown and were guccie
They did some damage and tanked better in previous expansions before Legion. WoD was glad spec for tanks which were the offensive version for warrior tank.
Purpose of a tank is to withstand pressure best as possible like the examples I put there are the amount they could handle easily especially a bear tank. However the class design for prot warrior got hampered bad. I can vouch for this because I pvp as the spec during those times.
Not with these developers. I would be surprised if they actually did something useful, but they’re too focus on E-sports or whatever they can milk from us.
Thanks for asking this kind of question. I’ve always been afraid to try PVP, but threads like this are really informative - and funny if you don’t take some of the remarks personally, just goofy.
It’s messed up that other MMORPGs and PVP games in general have found ways to incorporate tanks, even other blizzard games like Overwatch found ways to make tanks indespensible and that’s an FPS.
IDK why they can’t up tank dps along with that 50% increase to damage taken. Or go the route of other games and actually let them tank for their teammates.
What we end up with is just one of two bad scenarios
-Complete inviability in arena.
-or a niche build like healing prot paladin or Brambles guardian that the community hates because even if you win it’s a 10 min fight.
Why not just fix it once and for all instead of people saying tanks have no place in arena matches.
