02-27-2007, 02:17 AM
Quote:If a Prot-warrior isn't your #1 choice for a raid tank, you have three options:
1) make it so that a prot-warrior is #1 for raid tanking
2) change the class so that they have another role in raids
3) ignore them and watch them all go away
Currently, a Prot warrior gives up a ton to tank. Horrible grinding potential, horrible PvP potential. It's obvious that they have to have a niche. Also, if bears are taking over that roll in their current gear (pre nerf), it means that they will be broken down the road when they do get gear -- and perhaps that is the reason for the current dearth of epic druid tanking gear.
Explain Resto Druids then
I also gave up a ton to heal when I was Resto. Effectively there was nothing to do except raid
Do we get a unique monopoly on healing in raids though? Do we heck
A Prot Warrior before this nerf gave up a lot to be a valid tank choice. Now they give up a lot to be the only tank choice
I don't buy the argument that Warriors require exclusivity to make the class worth playing. Lots of people roll Warriors and develop them as dps or pvpers. Does the fact that other classes can dps and pvp stop people rolling Warriors? I don't think so
People roll Warriors because they like Warriors. It is the heroic archtype. Not being able to heal is an advantage for Warriors because if you have a Warrior tank no one ever suggests you should respec Resto to be more useful
Blizzard have sold Druid tanks out. We were promised raid viability, we got it and now it's been taken off us again. I doubt we will get it back
In fact I think this is an underhand way to boost the number of raid healers. Just when raid healers were really fed up 3 months ago they promised us viability in a number of new and interesting ways to keep us interested in the characters then, realising that with the healers turning into tanks and dps they lacked healers, they're starting a campaign of eroding these alternative roles
With regard to the jack of all trades role it's simply not as much fun for me as tanking. Tactically I don't see a lot of point to it. It's not like many people can switch mid-fight from raid class tank to raid class healer simply because the roles are so gear-dependent. And most of the cases where people tout hybrids as being useful in raids can be addressed in a different way. If you have 6 mobs to tank and only 3 tanks they can take 2 each instead of turning 3 of your healers into additional tanks
As for the jack of all trades master of none argument I don't really buy it. Why don't we suck at healing if it's "unfair" for us to do anything well? And I certainly don't want to be the raid member who sucks at multiple roles since I was rather set on tanking well and it seems a poor alternative to do lots of things to a mediocre standard
I've had a fun day instancing with my Rogue, now level 61, my Druid however is now retired. Other people can do the hard work of tanking and healing I'm done for now. Too much hard work and too many kicks in the teeth. And at least this way I can vent some of my Druid frustrations on unwary pvp-flagged Alliance players