Practically title, But seriously, How long are we going to go with the Voidwalker being a useless “Tanking” minion. They state they fixed the “Threat” they had prior to 11.0.5, but like many things this appears to have been removed as well. And even when those changes existed, I was still pulling off my voidwalker.
I’m now face tanking more and more, and my useless voidwalker just stands there. Heck, Even Brann as a healer in Delves is pulling off my voidwalker.
Can we please, have something done to our Tanking Minion to actually be… a tanking minion? Maybe to actually DO THE ONE JOB ITS DESIGNED TO DO?!
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Also, I’d go even further and make it better than the Felguard in a defensive aspect. Like, if you need a really durable tank, and need to sacrifice damage, you’d use it instead.
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I still believe the VW’s Shadow Bulwark should generate a burst of threat.
To be honest, I haven’t played my Destro Warlock yet this expansion, so I really have no first-hand experience at how it’s doing tank-wise.
I am running Delves with my VW and he is holding aggro just fine. Maybe because I am affliction and the DoTs don’t cause as much threat as great balls of fire? I mean doing dungeons as destruction I can pull aggro off actual tanks if I get a good proc/crit chain going.
Mayhaps what needs to occur, since The Voidwalker works fine for Affliction, and the Felguard works alright for Demonology. Maybe Destruction needs its own version of a tanking minion. In addition to it being a 2 minute cooldown thing, the Infernal could be Destructions Tanking pet. Much like how Demonology Warlocks can summon another Felguard.
The infernals threat could be generated simply because of its “AoE” ticking ability. If a mob is within close proximity to it, everything the AoE ticks it’s also a taunt. Meaning there should literally be no way for a destruction warlock to pull off him. And even if you do, the infernal, Unlike the voidwalker, would quickly be able to regain control. This AoE would be no different than how the Voidwalkers Consuming shadows ability hits all nearby enemies.
I just don’t understand why a tanking minion made for our Class, doesn’t work equally across all 3 specs? Why does Destruction not work with the Voidwalker? It’s not like I’m saying Im pulling off hunter pets… No. I’m pulling off something designed for our class, designed to be our tanking minion. Why doesn’t it work?
Or, Destro could have a spell that buff’s their VW’s threat, like a Burning Aura of Torment (or something like that).
was doing delves 8’s as destro solo ilvl 445 easy, who cares if you pull of it your tanky AF and he taunts back off you.
It’s possible that it might be Brann who’s taunting off you. He does that sometimes! 