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[oldmandennis]

They are still playing the game of telling the community that there are three viable end-game tank classes in the process of being tuned and telling the Warriors that they'll always be advantaged over the other two

However for most people several classes are now becoming boring after you've levelled them up. I've taken both a Paladin and a Druid to 70 now and they are so much more fun before you hit 70 when you can do everything than at 70 when not only must you choose between being a second-rate tank who only gets to tank when there's no decent Warriors around or a healbot but also once you raid as one role you accumulate gear to enhance that role and can't effectively role-swap any more.

I would be much less frustrated if they decided what class roles we all should have at end-game and implemented it then stuck to it.

Look through my posts and you can clearly see I'm no fanboi. I feel this post is way too dire.

I have fairly extensive experience with druids and warriors (raiding bear, 67 warrior). I find the druid *much* easier to play in a 5 man. I'm not really looking forward to collecting nethers with my warrior.

For raiding, druid off-tanks also bring important advantages over warriors - excellent threat when not taking damage, huge amounts of armor, vastly superior threat on 2-3 targets, higher overall threat, and much better damage (either in tank gear or in dps gear). We use tanking druids because for many situations they are clearly better then warriors.

For example - when we put Mag down on Wed, we used 2 ferals and 3 warriors. I was in full tank gear (except for a weapon swap). I came in 6th for damage done to Mag, nearly trippleing the damage done by the two left over warriors. Now I did get mangles and was not on cube duty, but I also shifted to help heal a few times, as well as brez and innervate twice.

Now, the single large boss does heavily favor warriors still. I'll admit, they have waffled a bit on if a warrior will be required to tank raid encounters. But if you didn't figure out at Lucifron that warriors were the raid tank, or had it figured out but decided to roll pally *AND* druid anyways based on a few vague comments, I don't know what to say. If you can't find plenty of fun things to do with a druid... I hope Conan comes out soon for you or something.