Hunter Tank 🛡?

[Destrarïon-khaz-modan]

@Andíra-silvermoon

Okay. So you tank with your pet. You go into a Tol Dagor keystone. Your pet pulls the first pack. The first mob dies. The entire pack and your pet are now in a Sanguine pool. Before the pool times out, your healer is OOM from spamming your pet and you wipe.

Pet got Avoidance passive spell , for a quick remind in actual version :
Reduces the damage your pet takes from area of effect attacks by an additional 80%.
Reduces the range at which enemies detect your pet.

@Andíra-silvermoon

You reach the first boss. Your pet growls it and starts tanking. Mosquitos spawn and murder your Warlock because your pet had growl on cooldown and no way to generate any AOE aggro. Then the boss goes underground and your pet bugs out trying to follow it. It zooms around the map and pulls another two packs of trash on top of you.

Look on topic above, i’ve make a quick summary of hunter tank spell what it could be, the hunter AND the pet got AOE , with that they can both retake aggro on “mosquitos”

@Andíra-silvermoon

Somehow you make it into the prison proper. You engage the trash on the first floor. A mob starts running away. Your pet goes after it and growls, pulling another two packs on top of you.

Pet or without pet, it’s pull other mob. When a mob in combat is close to a mob not in combat, it engage the other one. Since classic this mecanic is in game file.

@Andíra-silvermoon

Somehow, miraculously, you reach the second boss. Your pet starts tanking. The first Flashing Daggers cast, everyone hides behind a pillar. Everyone but your pet, which gets one-shot and you are left with no tank.

As i said, Avoidance passive spell of pet, and secondary hunter should hide and can ressurect pet like any hunter.

@Andíra-silvermoon

Somehow, you manage to get to the flamecaster boss regardless. Your team dutifully stacks all the barrels in one corner. Amusingly, that’s the one corner your pet’s AI decides to park itself with the boss. It dies and the boss has to get soloed by that one overgeared DPS in your party while everyone fumes in party chat.

Again Avoidance …

@Andíra-silvermoon

You get to the last leg of trash. Your pet dies three times because it didn’t move out of the fat man’s aoe swipe.

And again Avoidance passive spell, it’s on spellbook i don’t create anything here .

@Andíra-silvermoon

You finally reach Korgus. You are now three hours in, but after four wipes due to your pet parking the boss in the middle of the arena, your group finally falls apart and people put you and your pet on a blacklist so they don’t ever run into you again in a pug.

Pet of Warlock and Hunter got a spell on pet spellbook " Move To" That order to the pet to go on the targeted location, and you can click on “Follow” or "Passive " to make it back, don’t be dumb it’s almost like you say any tank is not viable beacause he don’t use button.

@Andíra-silvermoon

You decide a change of pace is in order. You queue up for a raid pug. You get accepted because duh, every pug wants tanks. They’re on Vexiona. First pull is over in 30 seconds because your pet positioned both the Void Ascendant AND the dragon to vomit all over the raid

If hunter tank existed, the Hunter got the debuff. The pet is an extension of the hunter, not a player. In the code the spell seek a player, that why any mechanic of raid never affect pet ( that is the reason why any hunter need to press Pet Mending since we only press when pet got aggro on it or a Ennemy Player damage him.).

@Andíra-silvermoon

Second pull is a bit better. The Void Ascendant dies. Your pet cannot reset stacks by picking up the orb because it has no hands. You wipe. You decide to log off and go to bed for the night while the first death threats start rolling in /w.

So you are judging Druid tank got no hand and in a wheel chair then ?
Druid tank will not be happy with what you said .

@Andíra-silvermoon

Can we please stop pretending all that a tank does is press taunt and take hits from mobs? And that the job is so easy it can be done by pet AI? Frankly, it’s insulting to people that play the role.

I’m the damn dude that know what mean tanking , Before maining Marksmanship hunter i’ve done
Warrior tank in Legion :
( Chickencloud : h ttps://www.warcraftlogs.com/reports/GByf6MTHpbChz3g7#fight=37&type=healing)
And in BFA between 8.1 and 8.2 in Dazar’alor raid i’ve played Demon Hunter tank : (h ttps://www.warcraftlogs.com/character/eu/ravencrest/tharuladar#zone=21&metric=hps)

So don’t tell me i insult tank when i was a Main Tank before. When i make a topic about hunter tank it’s mean i got a serious tread and not a garbage idea. got a whole document in my desktop but before posting i’ve made this OP to know what think people of it.

@Havthor-kazzak

HOWEVER there has been raids being done by hunters and healer if needed even in BFA.
And in BFA they changed it so pets could not taunt bosses.

I don’t even knew it some tryed.
As for pet taunt boss i didn’t tryed in BFA but maybe that should due to a bug since i’ve tryed in Legion and my pet couldn’t taunt the boss. It may be since tank aggro value as been nerfed and pet could then generate enought aggro to hold aggro of a boss.

[Azuriida-argent-dawn (Azuriida)]

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