Why is Tank still a thing in World of Warcraft?

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Why Tanks should be removed from this game.

DPS players can hold aggro from healers

Mobs only have scaled melee because of tanks.

Most Dungeon / Raid Bosses all have AOE abilities which are the real danger to the raid, not a tank dying.

The most a Tank has to do in a Raid, is move the boss around “which a dps player can do” and taunt back and forth. “not a very extreme skill”

Tanks are Raid KILLERS. If a tank has to leave regardless of the reason, an entire pug clears out. Also because nobody is locked to the raid, it is more of a reason it will fail. I am so tired of pugging 5 raids just for 1 week of heroic.

Waiting for tanks is also another reason why their absolutely unnecessary in this game. Putting together a raid is horrible when everyone is there waiting for 2 people who literally are getting carried to finally join. Just so they can hold the entire health of the group in their hands afterwards.

All of my hate aside, I have tanked almost every single expansion to date. Not a single time did I notice how horrible of a plague the role Tank was on the entirety of this game.

Going DPS really made it clear. I could be 620 ilvl if I was tank, Ide get invite to everything almost regrdless of my Ilvl. I mean, I could be an absolute trashcan and still get invite because of the shield next to my name.

Remove Tank role, Save this game.

This game would be 100% better if a DPS could be designated Aggro target since most classes have a taunt anyways.

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Stopped reading there. Hard no from me.

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Stopped reading but motivated enough to leave toxic comment. Goals

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Ah ha, so here is the real reason :rofl:

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I left a multitude of reasons, all equal to another.

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Disagreeing is now toxic? :rofl:

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Why not just get rid of healer too, make all group content dps only…

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If you disagree, add context to your disagreement, or take a stance of not caring and move on ya know.

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Zulzander, be the change you want to see in the world! Join the prot paladin police, brother.

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I have literally held that belief since Cata that healer role is entirely made up, and each player already hold the key to their own survival which is good placement, and use of their entire spell kit.

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You don’t get to decide when, where or how I respond.

Take your own advice if you dislike what I have to say:

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Okay, well if you are going to be here for awhile. you should explain why tank should stay instead of letting me know I cant stop you from using the internet lol

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You can hold whatever belief you’d like, no matter how insane it is.

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I was for my entire life in WoW, I went ret because questing was a drag this expansion. Then I realized the entire game was on slow mode because of how pugging is entirely devoted to 2 players out of 25.

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Last season if you geared right, tank could essentially be a DPS (or nearly there). I loved it!

It’s only in TWW that we’ve fallen from grace in being fat pumpers (unless you’re VDH or Prot Warr apparently).

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I don’t need to explain the logical reality of how this game and all of its content is designed.

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Didn’t read past the first sentence which was frankly pretty ignorant.

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You could argue that healers can be eliminated as well. Or really, why have “roles” at all? Just let players decide what spells they want to cast when the need arises.

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Listen, Remove tank

Or

Give them 600k dps

Soaking damage is not a talent in 2024.

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Since you decided to report my post, OP, i’ll take out the word i already censored lol.

This is your personal experience, my experience with pugs have never gone down like that. We stick with it n find a replacement tank(s).

Tanks dying n not getting rezzed will lead to a wipe if the boss has enough HP left, so this is not a legitimate statement.

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