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Are there only two tanking classes now?
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Post by
Buffalo
Pally and Druid?
What do you all think? 9 out of 10 times of all the dungeons and heroics I've run, the tank must be either a bear druid or a prot pally.
40 out of 49 warriors tells me that they are fury/arms spec, or "I am not a tank"
and you are playing a tanking class. Don't you have at least some tanking gear?
Not trying to be rude here to some of you dps warriors. But 5 out of 10 times, I can't stand a dps warrior. True, some of them do real good damage, but some of them are worst than a ret pally or cat druid. I would rather sometimes invite a cat or a ret pally for buffs and additional rez.
I know, face it, the blizzard creates a alternative dps spec for warriors that wants to hit hard, or be lazy. I don't hate dps warriors, but just very desperate to see that there are not many prot warriors around.
To be honest here. Imo, warriors are the best tanking class in game. They got more abilities and survivalbility, and if you have the tanking skill, it isn't that bad.
I always wanted to start a tanking class, but I already got 2 70s and don't want to waste time on lvling another.
Just wanted to make some comparisons between servers that we all play in. In my server, you could always see LF tank for.... on the trade/lfg channel ALL THE TIMEs. "Cannot find a Tank" is 80% of the reason which have caused my group to disband so far.
I hope blizzard will make a new tanking class instead of a new dps class >.<
or Nerf Fury/Arms and Buff Prot then more ppl might switch to prot.
Post by
mythicpencil
If you roll a war to be dps you're not very smart. If you want melee dps make an enh shaman or something like that. It's like a hunter wanting to melee.
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Post by
Wildhorn
I have a prot war and gringing/leveling is very easy.
Post by
Philmckraken
If you roll a war you're not very smart.
Fixed it. ;-)
But seriously, folks...It's been discussed in other posts, but here it is again: Tanking is hard. DPS specs are easy. DPS means quicker soloing, easier BGs, and you still get to go on instance runs and raids. Tanking means slower leveling, an awful time in BGs ("3 rogues at stables...I'm down.") and added responsibility when you enter the dungeon. (5-mans require one tank, one healer, and three randoms. Pick any 3. Really, it works every time.)
Tanks never get to say things like "4253 crit on that last mob!" This why you see so many fury warriors.
Post by
Buffalo
soooo what you're saying is that warriors aren't allowed to dps because you can't seem to find tanks for your groups...wow. have you ever tried to level/quest grind with a protection warrior, i have and it isn't the funnest of things. And your solution to all this is to nerf 2/3 speccs for a warrior making them useless in pvp and pve dps so the only thing you can do is tank..hmm brilliant idea but i have a better one, make a warrior and level it from 1 to 70 in full protection see how much fun you have.
it sounds like you are a dps class and if this is true then please stop complaining about tanks when you have the easiest jobs in the group/raid.
just to clarify, just because you can't find a tank for some of your groups doesn't mean that blizz has to nerf the life out of warriors, as for your other suggestion then that might be solved by deathknights which i think can tank, but i am not sure. :)
I did not mention anything about grinding or leveling up with prot spec. You can spec fury/arms to level up and tank low level instances, I simply said @ 70, there should be more tanks around , in my server when you type 70 warrior (random race) and ask them to tank an instance. You'll find out that around 80 - 90% of the warriors aren't tanks.
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Post by
Miyari
You want to see more prot warriors? Tell Blizzard to learn how to properly optimize the spec rather than just continously dishing out pointless warrior nerfs patch after patch.
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Post by
Miyari
They need to stop screwing up classes in PVE because of PVP.
Post by
Lebeau
I did not mention anything about grinding or leveling up with prot spec. You can spec fury/arms to level up and tank low level instances, I simply said @ 70, there should be more tanks around , in my server when you type 70 warrior (random race) and ask them to tank an instance. You'll find out that around 80 - 90% of the warriors aren't tanks.
Because at level 70 the need to farm and quest completely vanishes right? RIGHT?
So I dish out 50 gold to respec to a dps spec so I can farm/quest
efficiently
. Then another 50 gold to respec back so I can come tank your crappy pug instance which we'll probably wipe on because the dpsers find it's funny to pull aggro or break CC (thus costing me even more gold that I don't have in repairs).
If you want a tank so badly, get off your lazy butt and ROLL one.
Post by
sugarzombie
warrior dps is terrific
but a shortage of tanks usually leads to asking the dps warrior in group to tank...
Post by
Monjaru
If you want a tank so badly, get off your lazy butt and ROLL one.
And I suppose that when he needs a healer, since he's a tank now, he should just roll a healer as well. And while he's at it, roll half a dozen dps'ers. Then he can get 10 computers and do a bunch of five and ten men raids, right? Just switch back and forth between the computers as fast as he can and do something with his "lazy" butt.
Seriously dude. What Buffalo said makes a lot of sense. You need to chill out with the unnecessary comments.
Post by
Simulator
They need to stop screwing up classes in PVE because of PVP.
/Sim agrees
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Post by
Philmckraken
They need to stop screwing up classes in PVE because of PVP.
Please elaborate on this. Protection paladins are still awful in BGs.
Post by
AdInfinitum
I mean there will always be 3 tanks(4 with the expac), it kinda depends on your server, my server we are very prot warr heavy with the occasional feral tank and the even smaller group of prot pallies. And i agree with Miyari, nerfing PvP is also a nerf to PvE someone has yet to undertsand that at Blizz. Posts with, PvPers stop ur QQ, or pve sux LOL!1!!11!!!!1one/!1!111 annoy the crap outta me. If a person wants to raid then they can raid, if someone wants to pvp then let them pvp. Many people suggested that some nerfs only be active in Arena where the major source of nerfs are coming from. Yet people fail to see the greater good.
Post by
AdInfinitum
They need to stop screwing up classes in PVE because of PVP.
Please elaborate on this. Protection paladins are still awful in BGs.
So are feral druids and prot warrs.
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