This season, have decided to main Luna, and be a tank, and I must say, it is the worst decision of my life.
One example, yesterday was doing Mists 15+, on the 3rd pack, where everyone usually skips, we all used invisibility potions except for our restro shaman in the party.
We kill the pack, and we see shaman hexed the caster and passed by, when we were opening the gate to get extra buff, I see ton of adds are incoming, group wipes, and the party started trash-talking towards me.
Like, hello? How is that my fault? You take a shaman to 15, who does not know the basic routes or even the basics of their spell, why am I the one to be blamed?
So yeah, the shortage of tanks is due to this.
No matter who does something, wrong, asap party wipes, all hate and s**t talk goes to the tank.
And yes, it is not me the one who needs to grow thicker hide, it is the people who need monitor their own actions before playing the blame game.
the lack of in game tools to deal with routes, percentages etc. it just stresses me out. the new affix is also something i dont know which ones to use when best etc. everything around tanking is just so…convoluted. i do actually enjoy tanking itself very much though…
i ll try to get back into tanking on my druid but i ll only be tanking low keys for my friends or their alts where it doesnt matter whether we time something or not, not pugs, although i dont mind pugs in general and if tanking wasnt so convoluted i d definitely tank for pugs again. but doesnt look like they improve the tanking experience any time soon soo…
I never understood that, until a certain key level you can get away with using the same route every time ignoring even some of the affixes.
Im a living proof this can get you as far as KSM and probably higher if you dont lack skills like I do, so memorizing 8-10 routes for an entire expansion can hardly be an issue.
I get the impression that I’m hardly alone in this. Combine it with the whole blame the person in charge of the planning if anyone messes up and I think you have the shortage.
Mostly I’d sooner dps or heal, simply because it’s less prep work. I actually do quite enjoy tanking mechanically though.
i guess thats why i enjoy tanking leveling dungeons more than tanking m+.
i mean, sure, you could probably get away with not having a route and everything planned out but, to be honest, i often saw people crap on tanks when they did that because they expected them to do exactly x, y or z.
afraid of failure, and thin skin. these are things that can be learned. to embrace challenge and laugh of failure. and also to know when to take blame and not. own ur failures will lead to greatness. ok thats enough menthor talk from me. but i dare u to see some truth in it.
When so many people are ‘making excuses’ it’s worth asking why though, it’s kinda pointless to just try and make it some kind of moral failure. It’s a game after all, not a job.
Because it was not WO, therefore we used the potions, and yes, if the shaman had no invis potion, then our ele could have ressed them, no need to put a hex on the caster, knowing it still puts an agro.
what can i say, most ppl are afraid, most ppl are lazy and most ppl dont want to learn something new. but it is possible. it is correct you need certain qualitys to tank, but it all can be learned. i know tanks that are so bad healers or dps, standing in all kind of stuff and bad dps etc, i know tanks that pref to tank over dpsing because they think it is harder to play dps good.
I dont really think one is very more harder than the other, but if ur used to one thing over the other ofc what ur used to is more easy.
Same as everyone else. PUGs. I do tank heroics on any alt that can tank and I still love it, but as long as M+ and keys remain non-solo queue I will skip it.
Solo-queueing (or small group queueing), could also solve the leavers/trolls problem, as the system can tie key depletion on actual time failure, not some rando leaving.
As it stands the frustration is way to high with the community and not worth the time for me. And I miss tanking a lot. But, nope.
