I stumple upon this topic https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/evoker-should-have-a-tank-spec/1222759/207 , but as i don’t have an account in the US, i can’t respond there.
I recall swtor had “ranged” tanks. I don’t know how the Vanguard, worked, but i did play the Power Tech, a little. Of the abilites i remember it has, was flamethrower. Dragons are a walking/flying flamethrower. It also had like a rocket launcher uppercut, or something like that. The invokers have wings. They have claws, and could have a bite attack. But some argue against it, as it’s meant to be a ranged class. It could have talent at the high ranks, called hardend scales, that increases armor
Tanks (DK, Druid, Monk, Paladin, Warrior, DH)
Healers (Priest, Paladin, Monk, Druid, Shaman)
Melee specs (DK, Enhance, Feral, Havoc, Ret, Rogue, Surv hunter, Warrior, Monk)
Ranged specs (Balance, MM/BM, Mage, Shadow, Elemental, Warlock)
We need ranged DPS and Healers, we don’t need more tanks. More tank specs does not equal more tank players.
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I’m not saying changing the dps to melee. Just add in some extra. Not that i plan on playing a tank
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Then please do explain why we need a 7th tank spec, and no… “because” isn’t a reason.
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I wasn’t saying we needed. Just stumpled upon the topic, and was curious as to what others thought. Plus how could it hurt to have more. I’m not saying taking the other specs out. Just add in another
I think with the M+ affix it will be kinda weird how we can have a ranged tank
my personal take on this topic is Blizzard has given every new class that was created a tank spec and all it ever did was completely throw the meta out of whack where suddenly the new tank is the best tank for 2 expacs straight and has no equal in PvP
I’d rather not have that happen a 5th time personally because everytime the motivation from blizz was to solve the tanking shortage but it never fixed the tanking shortage it just meant that a lot of tanks felt forced to reroll because another class was better at it now.
I would like to for once not get a new tank along with the introduction of a new class because it’ll get barely anyone new into tanking and just makes a lot of existing tanks feel like they have to go out of their way to level yet another character to perform
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Tanking naked? What do you think you are, a bear?
The more the merrier!
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I rolled Vanguard for a while so I can fill this in for you.
Although the Vanguard uses a rifle most of its abilities are melee range, you have a basic auto attack that works at a distance as well as a grapple hook ability that works like a DK’s death grip but that’s it,
At its core is still very much a melee class.
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Meh, we don’t need a new tank.
I like that they have restricted to Healer and Range DPS. It just adds a new Hero class flavour, instead of all hero classes automatically being tanks.
It should have a tank spec ofc, but that would be too much effort for blizz. And dh should have a third spec and new races, but again, too much effort. Why would they do more when they can do less, blizz’s logic which unfortunately still gets a lot of support.
DH should absolutely NOT have a new race.
But it should deff have a 3th spec, preff ranged. So those zippy boogers can fluff off out of melee range 
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Tiers and expansion will always have a best tank for the content, metas will always be set - even if you dont bring in a new class. DH tanks was not that big of a deal in legion, as I remember it was fairly balanced - I did main Druid, DK, DH and Warrior between the tiers.
Second I dont get all these “no new class cant be a tank also”.
Its not going to cause less players to play ranged nor healers, that unless you hope for tanks to re-roll dps and healers - is that where we are at ?
If nothing, people want to try out new classes, eg tanks will stop tanking and try out healing or dps on a new class. Meaning less tanks will be availble.
Nobody said to remove healer or rdps class from new class - but add a 3rd option.
Orcs and draenei dealt with the legion more than the other races combined. If anyone should to be a dh, it’s them.
Even in HS there is an orc dh:
https://hearthstone.fandom.com/wiki/Karnuk,_Demon_Hunter
Lorewise making other classes DHs would be a totaly disaster…
You can also include the 2 murlock NPCs DHs but those are just some April Fool’s joke 
Why? Because Blizz, as always, decided to have less work and told you how only elves can be?
For the same reason I believe that Shaman/Paladin/Monk should only have 1 race playable aswell (ofc 1 on both factions.)
It’s a hero/stand-out class, why would you ever want to generalise yourself with everyone.
In my opinion:
Shaman: Draenei/Troll
Paladin: Human/Tauren
Monk: Panda’s for both.
Heck, ill even go this far…
Warrior: Dwarf/Orc
EDIT: Forgot too mention. In my opinion by including classes into more races it loses alot of it’s uniqueness… I am not a fan of generalisation.
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That’s fine, your opinion, but you know that players always like to have as few restrictions as possible, especially for things like this.
Anyway, your or my preferences have nothing to do with lore. I have already explained why it makes more sense for orcs and draenei to be dhs before anyone else. Illidan was the first dh, ok, but we can’t stick to that, someone will always be first. If we were to follow Illidan’s example, then paladins should be just humans or draenei (I’m not sure who the first one was) etc.
We have a similar problem of laziness when it comes to Dracthyr. We all know from the story that they can take any humanoid form, but of course blizz goes the easier route and they will only be able to have a human visage form, and worse they get support for their laziness, support from players who actually don’t care.
The same laziness is in question when it comes to third specs for dh and dracthyr. Laziness and nothing else. Laziness that players often support for some, say, “unusual” reasons.
Eeey we always need more tanks for m+ 
More tank specs =/= more tanks in m+.
Maybe stop treating pug tanks like crap and you’ll start seeing tanks show up eventually. But honestly, it’s way to late for the community for that.
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