… with the obvious disclaimer that there’s new content out which keeps a lot of people busy there, and the TW grind to occupy even more guys.
None the less, I was getting kind of tired of waiting forever with 1H/3DPS, so I changed spec and got an insta-queue. A good old nostalgic run through Razorfen Kraul, except that the group just ran. As in, literally blew ahead and engaged everything left and right. These were leveling characters, 20-30’ish, and yet I found even my reasonably mobile bear tank struggling to even keep up.
So, is this a ‘omg the community sucks!’ post? Nah, it’s always been like that, the thing is… The tank role in itself has simply become obsolete in ‘normal’ content. It’s not needed, with the massive power bloat in TWW and the exclusive design focus on end content, and getting there asap, dps and a healer can easily blow through most of a regular instance on their own.
Waiting for the tank is simply a nuisance, and even more so because you need one to get a pug going at all. Once you’re in, it’s faster to just blow away and do your own thing, as a dps guy.
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DPS running ahead and just pulling, killing and clearing - ignoring the group and just pushing to the boss? Yep, checks out.
I can’t say anything, as I usually just run all the way to the boss (last boss if able) and shadowmeld. The army of mobs? There is no I in Team, their problem now 
Bosses gotta die asap, am I right?
So whats the take away from this?
Tanks arent needed so the people that don’t spec it simply like long queues? (Because its soo eezy and obsolete)
Thats certainly an interesting take. By interesting I mean terrible.
Yeah, you did an ‘interesting’ take there 
Actually, I find that more people sign as tank in easy content because it’s a fast queue and low stress
As someone who always queues as a healer or tank, if the class permits it, its popcorn time for me when dps do this run ahead of the tank stuff. A few times walking back usually sorts them out. If they wipe the group, then it’s time to instigate a kick for trolling. I see no other way to deal with these inconsiderate players.
It is pointless getting agitated by them. You can only do what you can do. The worst that can happen is you turn WoW off for 30 minutes.
There is a tank shortage because of the pointless tank nerf patch that hit before TWW launch, in DF almost every tank if played well could literally rely on themselves and only really needed to rely on the healer for tank busters or in raids, in M+, a good tank could easily keep themselves alive with good cooldown rotations, CC, and movement, this was good because you could play the dungeon and focus on your own gameplay
Tanks in TWW are too healer reliant, it’s not fun dying because your healer was thinking about what they were going to make for dinner instead of hyperfocusing on the raid frames, especially when you could self sustain a +15 last expac.
Even doing timewalking dungeons you feel like glass, it’s horrible.
Overall the healer is spamming to keep the rest of the group alive.