WoW Stratics IRC Chat

[Taelas]

There's enough gear dropping to outfit everyone eventually. Now, if it's a glory thing, I respect that, but the answer is: that's an emotional preference and not a problem with game design. If you want the "glory" (which varies between raid groups, not everyone oohs and aahs over the boss target tank) roll a warrior. Druids aren't, as a matter of game design, screwed because they lack "glory".

"Eventually"? How far between "now" and "eventually"? Three-four months? More? That's enough time for the next big instance to open up, and new gear becoming available... and that's only relevant for bleeding edge groups; the rest will simply continue to advance through the old content.

As for rolling a warrior for the "glory", no. I have a Protection warrior (which got me interested in tanking in the first place). I prefer tanking, but I want to have other options available. When it comes down to it, I'm willing to give up the main tank spot to warriors who give up all other options, but that doesn't mean I should never get any time in the spotlight.

I agree it doesn't apply when there's no off-tanking. But there are no encounters in TK/SSC that involve a single boss-target-tank and no other tanks in the encounter. So yes, it doesn't apply when there's no off-tanking, but part of my point is that Blizzard is designing encounters that from this point forward will all or nearly all include a non-warrior tanking role.

Yes, druids are no good when there's nothing to offtank. Blizzard's solution is to make sure they always have something to offtank.

Except you can accomplish it by not having druids (which is RIGHT; no class should be 'required' to progress), which means we're somewhat redundant. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing.

By and large, I'm pretty satisfied with the tanking scene as it is now. It could be tons better--it could actually include paladins post-Karazhan, for example--but it's more or less good enough.

And there are actually a lot of single-tank encounters in Karazhan. Of course, Karazhan is hardly end-game, but it is still what most raid groups are up against.