I hate it but what can you do?

#0 - June 2, 2009, 7:52 p.m.

You know what the really sad thing about all of this is that WOW is going to loose a lot more Warrior and Pally Tanks because people are just sick and tired of DK's stealing the show. Its just that simple, I personally know of over 10 people who now have given into the DK tank madness and given up their other warrior/pally or simply left the game entirely because in their opinions DK's have RUINED Tanking. It's just too much for many many players to watch themselves being pushed aside by someone who has played a DK tank in LK when they have been tanking since vanilla wow and now cannot compete on equal ground. They really are not even mad at their guilds or other players its simply that given the choice they would even recommend a DK tank just because they truly are better able to handle the encounters, not because of any skill the players posses but simply because of the way the class is talented currently.

Take any Pally, Warr and DK play them to the best of their abilities and the vast majority of guilds will make the DK the tank every day of the week. They will all admit that the other two classes are fine in many scenarios but quickly point out that that the DK can handle those as well so it just much easier to leave them in the top slot all of the time. Hard modes are even further emphasizing DK tanking yet again, sadly something that Blizzard knows and seems unwilling to make changes with any sort of haste. The Devs have made posts even talking about how there is a clear discrepancy and promise the ever elusive "soon" as a fix for many things. The bottom line is that they just do not care enough to make changes that are really needed in a timely fashion, heck this has been going on since the start of LK and there is just more talk talk talk about what might be an option down the road, you would think they got paid monthly and want to try and stretch things out, oh wait they do!

Ghostcrawler

#4 - June 2, 2009, 9:34 p.m.

The players who give up and reroll so easily are going to be the ones most disappointed when we correct an imbalance by buffing one class or nerfing another. Then they're going to feel compelled to go back to the original character.

If you're just trying to point out the degree to which you think an imbalance exists, then I guess I get it. But I think you're hurting yourself a lot more than you're hurting us when you give up and start leveling a new dude. :)

Ghostcrawler

#91 - June 4, 2009, 9:14 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Is'nt that what you want people to do anyway? Get people to reroll all the time?

If having lots of alts is your thing, sure, go for it. Sometimes it rekindles someone's interest in the game to try something new.

What I would not recommend is the flavor-of-the-month-style thinking where someone says "Hmm. The community seems to think DKs are the best tank. I'll smartily reroll DK and then everyone will want me to tank for them! Mwahaha." Only by the time they get their DK to level 65, we've realized the issue and corrected it. Then they are sad. "I spent [insert amount of time it takes to level a character, probably 4 days in the case of a DK] leveling my DK only to have you nerf her!"

Play a class you have fun with. The community tends to over-emphasize the degree to which balance issues realistically affect raid invites. It happens, but I'd warrant misinformed decisions occur about as often as informed ones, and it's mostly only an issue on very challenging content or when speed really matters. Furthermore, if you have someone with a sub-standard enchant, sloppy talent spec, or who could just stand to L2P, you'll improve your success more by working on that guy rather than benching the class who EJ concluded has 5% lower dps on some boss fights.