What is Tankiest and squishiest dps?

[Tyssera-ravencrest]

@Ontau-ravencrest

They have good cooldowns, but they’re not tanky, without their cooldowns they’re squish lords, but this is why the game has tanks.

Are you talking about rogues or locks?

[Coldsháde-argent-dawn (Coldsháde)]

@Alagondar-bloodhoof

In other words, What is FOTM for S4 as i want to play it

Not really, tankiness alone usually does not define the meta picks for DPS.

[Ontau-ravencrest]

Rogues

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[Tyssera-ravencrest]

Then you’re probably right, but since they have about the best defensive CDs of any dps class, only a very poor player will be caught without one.

[Ontau-ravencrest]

Different types of content in game, so most likely you’ll be out of cooldowns in one scenario.

OPs question is not specific to one type of content like m+, PvE could be many things, so too many variables at play to say only poor players will be caught without cooldowns.

[Khadgaren-kazzak]

i dont know never played druid i guess bear form has some defensives?

[Atriohm-aggramar (Atriohm)]

@Ponytaîl-elune

Rogues lose half HP when they’re being sneezed at

Rogues stack a lot of vers, so they aren’t that squishy outside of CD’s.

[anon47475792]

Mages are really tanky, if you know, what you’re doing, and probably the squishiest class, if you don’t.
That goes for Kyrian Arcane mages.
Fire mages are just extremely tanky, no matter what you do, because you have 2 life saves.

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

Reading down the thread, would it be fair to say that the tankiest is the one you know how to play, and the squishiest is the one you don’t know how to play?

P.S.

@anon47475792

Mages are really tanky, if you know, what you’re doing, and probably the squishiest class, if you don’t.

Yes, this is a good example. On my mage (potentially squishy clothie) I can survive masses of things that would kill me on any other class, because I know what to do best on my mage.

There are exceptions: a mage just cannot go toe-to-toe, one-on-one, with a tough melee elite. But that isn’t the usual requirement. In an instance, there will be a tank whose job that is, and as a DPS I just have to avoid mechanics and soak unavoidable damage that would kill me. In the open world, I may not be able to solo some of the Zereth rares, but I do have two approaches: kite, or nuke - and if neither of those work, I can just invis my way off into the sunset.

[Tyssera-ravencrest]

@Ontau-ravencrest

OPs question is not specific to one type of content like m+, PvE could be many things, so too many variables at play to say only poor players will be caught without cooldowns.

When someone says ‘melee and ranged’, there’s a good chance they’re talking about group content. In group content, rogues have more than enough CDs.

In solo content… again, it depends on the rogue. I know someone who has played rogue since vanilla and doesn’t understand why other dps players struggle to solo multiple elites.

@Ponytaîl-elune

Rogues lose half HP when they’re being sneezed at

And then you have incompetent rogues like me who stand in the Halkias smash in Halls, and then walk straight into a statue on the last boss, and still don’t manage to die.

[Zilvestram-ravencrest]

Depends do you consider tanky in a m+, raid, or solo pve enviroment?

Because pet classses/specs are on a completely different level of tanky in a solo pve enviroment than other classes, due to pets.

[Skadefryden-turalyon]

A badly geared Rogue forced to facetank tough mobs during leveling is the squishiest thing I have played so far, only relying on CC CDs to zero out fast enough.

The tankiest DPS? In PvE that will have to be an Affliction Warlock with a healthy and sound Voidwalker around. Voidwalkers are far better than any Hunter’s tank pets.
A surviability-talented Draenei Retribution Paladin should also be capable of significant sturdiness.