Post:
Finalizing the Prot Warrior design
User:
ZomgAGnome
Infraction: 4. Whining in any form is forbidden.
Points: 1
Administrative Note:
Message to User:
This is my sad face 
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Original Post:
I've been main tanking for well over a year at this point and recently I've been trying to wrap my head around why I've been so bummed about tanking... and I think what I determined is my own uselessness in a raid situation and I'm not even talking about our dps.
Basically, I feel as though I'm no longer worth the raid spot MT'ing as a warrior in this content and with how classes are currently represented. Our aoe is worse and more annoying to use as it involves only 2 legitimate abilities and then tab target spamming of abilities. Our inability to do dps or buff the raid in any meaningful manner means on a fight which we aren't MT'ing (if you're an OT) and there are no adds to pick up or job to be done we are useless. The other TPS from tanking classes do just as much, so it's not as though I'm forced to MT or the dps will be pulling aggro. A hard hitting physical boss, as nice as shield block is, it seems that a druid at or near the armor cap seems a better choice.
The only thing that we bring is sunder armor. If that's what I'm grasping on to, is it time to default the sunder armor job to a dps warrior while I choose a different main? What encounters at the moment are we the best at tanking? I ask all this maybe out of simple boredom or some strange self-hatred, but I honestly want to find an answer. Am I overlooking a huge aspect of our class that I just can't see because I'm too close to the problem?
Although this sounded extremely self-loathing or some sort of desire for a pity-party, I assure you it's genuine. Oh yeah, I'm sick of spamming HS too.
addon/edit: Upon evaluation I suppose it's not quite as bad as my post would make it seem. No tank really outshines us in all the areas so I suppose we still fill the standard "Well they're not bad at anything" tank spot in the raid so it's not catastrophic if others are better at most of the fights than us.
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02/22/09, 3:40 PM
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