Is Blizzard aware of the massive tank shortage?

i would say that its m+ becing garbage this season adds to this.

sure i might be outliner - but when i have my 3 tank alts at max level - why woudl i subject myslef to m+ on them atm when i can just chill out in dvelves.

i woudl have to literaly do m+10 on any of them to get better gear then im getting in dvelves out of GV.

and i asumme that quite a lot of people are like - yeah dont care about mythic GV rewards on my alt number 7 in first place

because rogues are not a pet or magic class? they’re a melee physical dps, and if you’re a melee physical dps you’re probably going to be a warrior or ret paladin or dh? hahaha you are cooked my guy.

Brother… classes have specs…

the classes i linked have no tank specs…

do you even play the game? :S

i mean seriously now, how do you get dressed?

Hooooly damn… xD I start to think that you are actually fried or trolling xD

Exactly… Then:

Means half the classes (roughly) can tank xD Like are you actually okay?? Please my guy… You can do better

I really do wonder if you actually have arguments or just make them up a you go… because so far your arguments don’t even last 1 reply and you change the argument completely xD

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gee where have i heard that before?

oh wait, it was me:

You’re beyond help - good luck!

blizzard doesnt care they are buffing prot paladins damage but not damage reduction.

You’re whole argument was “More tank SPECS would increase tanking” and now you changed it to “ClAsSeS hAvE sPeCs” but not half the playerbase tanks… Like you are beyond fried xD

But… you just said increasing tank specs would increase?.. But half the classes can tank?.. yet… we don’t see half of the playerbase tanking… Not even close… :cry:

I do like however that you thought I needed help in basic statistics… If you do however, I can recommend a few good books I have on the shelf. Would probably help <3

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Alright Einstein.

Anyways, you’ve earned a month:

you only want to play tank for being op…

tank in pvp is a joke, we clean delves already easly in tank, we outfarm outdoor, so no, tank damage isnt the problem.

Toxic community is the problem, that all

Giving them a tank spec doesn’t mean they will tank.

It will have zero impact (or next to zero). You aren’t suddenly going to be overwhelmed with tanks because shamans and locks can tank.

If the role appealed to them they’d be doing it already.

tl’dr you’re talking crap, GJ ignoring the poor chap that was bravely trying to talk sense into you. Maybe if you type in angry caps more people will agree with you.

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This is just nonsense comparable to saying ‘adding new classes doesnt mean people will play them.’

People will and do play new things because they’re new playstyles that weren’t available before.

We don’t need everyone to play the new thing, we just need enough people to play the new thing to make up for the current gap where 15% of available specs are tanks but the game has a demand of 20% of every group needing to be a tank.

The role doesn’t appeal to them because the role I am describing doesn’t exist yet.

Prior to Blood DK, tanking with 2handers didn’t exist and surprise surprise, they added it and, contrary to your claim that no one will play it, people do play it.

So you’re wrong about that.

TL;DR you’re out of your depth and looking to be a contrarian to move your post count 14638 to 14639.

Your next post will add content to the discussion or you too will end up on a month ignore. I have no time for time wasters.

Please do. If you’re going to ignore people just do it. I don’t need your virtue signalling and hand waving to pair with your kindergarten logic.

Snort.

It will go like this

  • Emgerd I’ma Warlock tank look at me tank things!!!
  • Oh wow this community sucks, I’m never tanking again.

Read this again.

The role does exist, its called “tanking”. Doesn’t matter if you do it on a lock, warrior or mage. It’s the role that matters, not the class performing it. Give every class a tank spec and there would still be a tank shortage because the ROLE doesn’t appeal to most people.

Take a perma then. I’ve yet to see you post something that isn’t contrarian nonsense - which is impressive given your post count. You’ll soon have no one to speak to but yourself if you keep going.

I was going to let it lie but I happened across this on the US forums.

My bad you were right. The thread is overrun with people saying “man, I’d love to tank and I totally would if only they had wizard tanks!”

Or not :clown_face:

Are they all contrarians too?

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i tank to 99% of my keys, but when you just want to fill your vault and dont look at score, you get no invite in this ecosystem
“you have 620 gs and already did a 10 or 11 plus 2 on this dungeon, but your score is 1,5k? nah you must be bad! decline” my xp in a nutshell

im forced (and do it) to play keys with guild mates/friends only

Nonsense! Didn’t you see the big spike in healers when they introduced preservation? Man I could barely list my key before I was spammed from dozen of healers begging me to take them because they were just competing with each other to get in! :face_exhaling:

A joke why?
Trade off some damage for survavability. Carry flags in BGs, defend locations etc.

The only problem with that was DPS whining that they can’t just blow up a tank, and that it is not “fun” for them.

As for delves - have you done anything higher than T8? I have all T11 finished, including deathless, and on most packs I take higher damage as blood, than I do as unholy/frost, as blizz stupid 3x damage bonus for tanks scales up with delve tiers. T8 is a faceroll as a tank, and a faceroll as a dps.

no they wouldnt since you can only have 1 tank per dungeon as a rule.

There is no such rule. You can 5 heal it if you want.

To a lot of people the “heavy metal music”, as you put it, is simply tanking.

I should note that I already have a tanking spec I want to play that isn’t a mage, but I can’t play it because I am not willing to deal with the RSI-inducing button mashing. So until they fix that, it doesn’t really matter however many they add. Bear in vanilla: 1 click every 2-3 seconds. Bear in retail: About 2 clicks every second. It’s literally 5-6 times faster. I can’t deal with it.

Here’s the thing - being someone standing up face-to-face with the monsters and controlling them is kindda the whole tanking thing. You’re going to have to explain to me how, say, a mage tank would work.

But before you do I should mention - most people roll mages because they like a class that’s got a great deal of variety within squishy slippery ranged damage dealer - because that’s what all 3 specs are. So you aren’t likely to get much out of this, but let’s roll with it.

And remember - it has to be slippery and ranged. If it’s not that, it isn’t a mage spec. If you just give us a 3 varieties of mage armor and has us standing toe to toe with mobs, then no mage will interested, I guarantee it.

How does a mage tank actually tank? We’re a clothie, remember.

I just like berserking Into things headfirst. So I usually end up as some sort of melee/tank.
The one class I just can’t wrap my head around is mage. Which makes sense considering my usual playstyle.
And the tank shortage has always been there.
But currently all the different gear tracks and wonky mythic+ from what I hear isnt doing it any favors.
Also the leap of heroic I can smash the world 10 times over and not die. Compared to myth+ where pathing/ damage upkeep and all that becomes very important.
It’s a steep learning curve.
And a lot of people don’t have the patience for that in pugs.