#0 - Sept. 9, 2009, 5:44 p.m.
Several times Ghostcrawler has referenced that since the <insert tank class here> (normally warriors) aren't being replaced by their guilds, then what is the justification of buffing them?
The problem I have have with this is that it has been openly admitted that they did absolutely NOTHING up until WotLK to balance the tank classes. Warriors were SUPPOSED to be the tanks. Paladins and druids just fought hard to get there.
Now, if you think about this, take Guild X and Guild Y.
Guild X has been around since BWL was fresh and new. They have had (for the most part) the same crew of warrior tanks the whole way through. By the time they get to WotLK, there is no possible way that this guild is going to trash their tanks for new tanks just because the class is underpowered. These tanks are so firmly entrenched in the guild, that replacing them would take a long time to build up the synergy with them again.
Take Guild Y. Guild Y formed in WotLK. We'll say that it's a group of competent people who for one reason or another (we'll assume amicable reasons) find themselves looking for a new raid guild. There are no loyalties yet in this group. They are just getting moving. Are they going to look at the underpowered class played by the guy who tanked his way all the way through Vanilla, TBC, and into WOTLK, when they can take this other guy with the bright and shiny tank class? probably not, and there isn't much that the veteran tank can do about it.
My problem with the 'since you aren't being replaced' comments is purely from the standpoint that by thinking about it this way, the guy trying to get into a guild now who is a great tank, is already fighting an uphill battle because his preffered class isn't getting buffs that it needs because "they aren't being replaced".
I don't know the current state of "who is OP and who isn't" as I'm not a tank anymore. I am just trying to understand the logic behind not buffing something that is broken, just because it isn't being replaced. It just seems like a poor reason to me.