Infraction for AnonWarrior: Profile Infraction

• Aldriana · 08/21/08, 6:32 PM

Post: The Protection Warrior Guide
User: AnonWarrior
Infraction: Profile Infraction
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

You know, it's funny. The armory doesn't seem to be aware of a character called "AnonWarrior". It's like your name is a pseudonym or something, which I never would have guessed based on the fact that you named yourself an anonymous warrior.

Sorry, that doesn't fly here. You need to fix your profile with a real character.

You're also right that your post comes across as pretty whiny. You probably want to avoid that in the future as well.

Original Post:

I apologize if this comes off as a QQ post, I am merely trying to justify my raid spot in a sunwell guild. Basically I was the "MT" of my guild in BT. Not that I main tanked everything, I gladly shared the duty with all the other tanks. However, my guild is now slowly working its way through sunwell (now 2/6) and I have noticed that I, nor our raid leader, can justify me ever tanking anymore. For example, on brutallus feral druids seems to simply take less damage, and the healers fully agree having 2 feral druids tank him is optimal. Therefore I either sit out or go MS being there just to be a debuff bot. Similarly its easier to heal a feral druid through corrosion on Felmyst. Again a fight where I just go MS as debuff bot and intervene during it. All our healers agree and fully prefer feral druids now as they take less damage. Similarly on the other side of it, I can not seem to match the threat of a feral druid on a single boss. I don't think my threat is bad or anything, maybe 1200-1400 range, but our feral druid can average 1500 or more.

I'm not saying warriors cant tank all these fights, obviously they can and have in numerous other guilds. But I am saying for the sake of efficiency, why would you use a warrior anymore? What am I suppose to tell my raid leader to ever be able to go prot again? My personal understanding, throughout BT, was that the tanks more or less equalized since druids would take crushing blows that the warriors and pallies would not. Since there are no longer crushing bosses in sunwell (at least thus far?) then what does a warrior have that can compensate for the huge gap in armor, I mean the 10% from defensive stance helps but the feral druids we have clearly still take significantly less damage than me. It just does not make any sense to burden both the healers and dps with me tanking.

I believe all tanks should have equal share of main tank time, based on fights catering to each class' strengths. But from our raid leader's point of view, warriors no longer have any strengths (other than being debuff bot) other than gimmicky fights (Kael, Illidan, RoS phase2). Do I just suck or is there something I am missing?

Thanks for the help, and sorry for the QQ rant. I just want to tank again.