Just seems like complete oversight on Blizzard side especially when we’ve seen it works… like I’ll go from playing my SoD warlock tank then I’ll come to retail and there’s just really no tank class that scratches that caster tank niche.
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Why not 2023?
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Probably because its a bad idea.
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Because they thought Augvoker was the better idea.
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Why would there be a caster tank when them having threat means the mobs will be in their face in melee range?
Nothing seems less fun than casting spells standing in melee
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Melee healer also.
And no, I don’t mean melee mobs and healing… I mean meleeing your friends to heal them. Fight Club style.
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What does the year have to do with it?
Classic content is a joke, maybe in SoD it worked, but here we play real WoW, with actual content.
Don’t bring classic garbage here lol
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Did you miss out on the joy of casting chaos nova and throwing cones of bats at mobs as a Demonology warlock when it was able to off tank? You could take some heavy damage because you had metamorphosis and demon skin to offset big cleaves & numerous monsters; you could cast your self healing damage spells to clean up what the healer was missing.
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It is 2024 because 2023 got over and 2025 is to come .
As far as casting tank goes , I used to cast flame of nal whatever in legion , so yo ucna be a warrior
What I definitely wouldn’t miss is having to stand in melee trying to get casts off as a tank with the absurd amount of ground effects requiring movement in the game, while also having to lose aggro of mobs if I have to cancel a cast early into a pull to move from a ground effect or mechanic.
The way the game is currently designed it just wouldn’t work
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This is the most ridiculous thread I have ever read. Most genre in fantasy categories depicts them as caster that fights alongside of warriors with shield and or armor or what not.
Even alone they can fight with spells but never a tank in any fantasy genre.
As long as your aggro building spells are instant cast, like avenger’s shield, consecration, judgment and hammer of justice, you could. Really, most prot paladin abilities are instant cast spells, with a melee build up of your shield of righteousness when you smash it into monster faces. So, I guess we have a caster tank?
Technically since pally went to holy power as a resource instead of mana for these abilities, I guess maybe it’s not caster any more.
it literally isnt.
they dont have to be instant cast. they can be channels/cast time as well.
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What is a “caster” tank anyway, somebody with long cast times for all of their abilities, while experiencing pushback delay because things are hitting them?
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swear you never feel pushback in retail anyways.
What is a “caster tank” to you, though?
You get cast times on your abilities? That sounds horrid, as a tank.
You have ranged abilities? The monster runs right up into your face, you are no longer a ranged tank.
You want to wear cloth? Go play a Valewalker in DAOC. Cloth tank.
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After they make a Warrior Heal spec
they yell at you to inpsire you to fight harder
“Get your lilly-livered cloth-wearing finger-waggling behind up and stop bleeding all over my patch of grass here! Or so help me iʻll beat you to death myself then rez you and beat you to death again!
DO YOU HEAR ME?? I CANT HEAR YOU!! Now get in there and Fight!”
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Can you dodge/block/parry while casting? I know that it doesn’t allow you to do so while channeling (rip to the warrior who put bubble wand into his macros), I imagine it is the same if you are casting a spell?
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I literally got off SoD, and wanted to play a caster tank in retail for MoP remix and there is none.
Well Warlock in SOD… just drain tanks… you know using your health as a resource and using your mana to vamp it from the enemeis.