I was under the assumption that tanks would only be matched against other tanks of the same class. Well I’m going up against guardian druids as blood dk and there’s NO WAY TO COMPETE because they can heal. Does anyone at Blizzard have brains? Tanks with heals need their own bracket separate from tanks without heals.
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hate to break it to you but no one cares about tanks but d rather see them gone in pvp
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Guess you’ll be tanking your rating then 
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Tanks shouldn’t be in arenas to begin with. They are 0 help most of the time.
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Thats really great news! Finally no tanks griefing the game anymore with unnecessary long troll games.
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logout every tank queue
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They said multiple times that in solo Q guardian druids and protection paladins (the tank/healers hybrids) will only be matched against each other, and wouldn’t play against other tanks.
It was literally working like this whole season 4 when solo shuffle was a non rated “brawl”.
However, since prepatch, all tanks are in the same pool for rated solo shuffle. So it seems as if it is just another thing that IS BROKEN and doesn’t work.
Just like rated solo shuffle rating not allowing upgrades.
Or leavers not getting -rating.
Or WW monks doing 100% damage with SEF copies and Strike of the Windlord.
Etc. etc.
Prepatch is just a convoluted way to say “live testing”.
solo shuffle is completely unfair when there are tanks in the match.
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Nobody wants tanks in Solo shuffle, so you’ll hardly find any sympathy here 
As for the rules, only Prot Palas have their own “bracket”, all other tanks may be matched randomly. So you can’t go up against a prot, but you can be matched vs druid, yes. Not much you can do if he plays smart.
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Tanks ruin solo shuffle, everytime you get one you know it’s going to be 6 rounds of who can Zerg the easiest kill target.
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after dinner im gonna start queueing wqith my ujndergeared warr prot, just for the sake of getting more people to post on the forum to remove tanks.
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Tanks can do rbg, but sounds not allowed to play arena except with 50% less hp
Stop playing tank in solo shuffle and ruining the fun for the rest of us then.
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As long as the rewards are given out to the top x % players of the given spec, I think any composition is completely fair to everyone under any circumstances as all possible combinations are rotated in a solo shuffle match.
It’s not about being unfair, but about being unfun with tanks instead of healers, because the games are extremely fast and it’s always “kill the most defenseless player of the opposing team fast”.
So after waiting a long time to get an exciting game and you get tanks instead… yeah
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Games are extremely fast even with healers. People are getting instagibbed all the time.
200k+ hits simply isn’t something you can heal.
Remove tanks from rated solo shuffle.
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Well, I’m not so sure.
Tank games end very fast, compared to healer games. Tanks don’t have enough healing to sustain dps players (except prot paladins I guess).
So “meta” changes for tank games. Immunities, self healing and kiting get extra value.
If tank games are 10% of all solo shuffles, then having different meta for a small number of games can be very frustrating (especially if you play a class that’s bad in tank games, like rogue or warrior).
What a shocker…
Healer games are pretty fast as well when you’re against a resto shaman. You can’t cast.
Enhancement shamans also deals unhealable amounts of damage.