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Been tanking/playing on and off since release and love it, wouldnt play another class. So after playing the suck a** game rift game back to wow. From 80- 84 been running 5 mans and not one item has dropped for me. Maybe the dips*ts at Blizz should give tanks a better chance at getting gear. Really, how many times can I run the same lame dung hoping to get a piece of gear to not have it drop. Rant off...
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A lack for dropped gear is your only reason to not want to tank?
Ugh....there's much, much worse.
And there's all sorts of other ways to get gear, there's not a lack of tank of drops and now that you can reforge stuff some "dps" items work just fine for tanking. If you haven't seen any drop it's just bad luck.
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That's just bad luck, it's not a reason not to tank. DPS and healers have bad luck streaks, too.
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It's not very hard to gear up a tank. Just takes a lil effort, time, and patience. Check my tank out: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/blackrock/Brobarian/simple
Bought with gold (lil bit of effort):
Ring 378 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=71367
Bracers 378 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=70937
Neck 378- http://www.wowhead.com/item=70929
Sword 365 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=70164
Bought with Valor (Time):
Ring 378 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=70940
Legs 378 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=70952
Hands 378 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=70953
Quest (Patience)
Back 365 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=71270
Feet 365 - http://www.wowhead.com/item=70108
You can get ALL of this as a DPS or in shitty tank gear. You can fill the rest or even supplement Valor for JP gear until you get the Valor. Don't worry about drops. Those come with time and should just be "oh, cool those finally dropped" rather than sweating it every time it drops.
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I guess you didn't realize that there is a full crafted tank set that you can purchase at level 80 that allows you to tank all the way to level 85.
OR, you also end up with a full tank set had you quested in the crappy quest zones from 80 to 85.
OR, you could be like all the other morons out there and just reforge your DPS gear and slap some tank stats on it, and when you epic fail you just blame the healer.
Or better yet, don't reforge and just join LFD in pure green DPS gear, and still blame the healer every time you fail.
That is the way most people play it 
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80-84?
Psh, you haven't even gotten to the worst part, aka lv 85 when you have fully regressed to lil bitch status.
Stay at 80 where you feel powerful.
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80-84?
Psh, you haven't even gotten to the worst part, aka lv 85 when you have fully regressed to lil bitch status.
Stay at 80 where you feel powerful.
Or 70. Or 60. Mudflation is part of MMO's, get over it.
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Talehon69 posted:
-Peo- posted:
80-84?
Psh, you haven't even gotten to the worst part, aka lv 85 when you have fully regressed to lil bitch status.
Stay at 80 where you feel powerful.
Or 70. Or 60. Mudflation is part of MMO's, get over it.
Ignorant statement is ignorant. Mudflation is part of the WoW model. There are MMO's that do not utilize this model AT ALL 
Educate yourself before trying to participate in a discussion.
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i used to like tanking as a lowbie, but never got that high with any of my tanks...same went with healing, THAT i cant stomach.
seeing how tanks and healers are getting treated NOW, i dont even bother trying to level tanks/healers.
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i used to like tanking as a lowbie, but never got that high with any of my tanks...same went with healing, THAT i cant stomach.
seeing how tanks and healers are getting treated NOW, i dont even bother trying to level tanks/healers.
My first toon was a prot warrior... As soon as I got him to max lvl (80 at that time), the dungeon finder was released and tanking with strangers was not fun. My main now is an elemental shaman.
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Speaking of lowbie tanking...you can tank as ret in your 40-50's cake. I used to heal in randoms and people would freak if a ret pallyw as the "tank" and then they'd hold agro, live AND top the dps charts. Awesomesauce.
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Spookysheep posted:
Talehon69 posted:
-Peo- posted:
80-84?
Psh, you haven't even gotten to the worst part, aka lv 85 when you have fully regressed to lil bitch status.
Stay at 80 where you feel powerful.
Or 70. Or 60. Mudflation is part of MMO's, get over it.
Ignorant statement is ignorant. Mudflation is part of the WoW model. There are MMO's that do not utilize this model AT ALL
Educate yourself before trying to participate in a discussion.
You don't even know what the hell you're talking about. Mudflation has been around for ages, and there are very, very few MMO's that don't have it.
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PallyDog posted:
Speaking of lowbie tanking...you can tank as ret in your 40-50's cake. I used to heal in randoms and people would freak if a ret pallyw as the "tank" and then they'd hold agro, live AND top the dps charts. Awesomesauce.
Not sure if the dps I group with just suck, or its due to being low level... but ive level a warrior and pally 1-60 tank spec, and I always top the dps charts.
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Talehon69 posted:
You don't even know what the hell you're talking about. Mudflation has been around for ages, and there are very, very few MMO's that don't have it.
Not only do you need to educate yourself on the topic, you need to work on the reading comprehension, starting with your own posts 
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Kordirn posted:
PallyDog posted:
Speaking of lowbie tanking...you can tank as ret in your 40-50's cake. I used to heal in randoms and people would freak if a ret pallyw as the "tank" and then they'd hold agro, live AND top the dps charts. Awesomesauce.
Not sure if the dps I group with just suck, or its due to being low level... but ive level a warrior and pally 1-60 tank spec, and I always top the dps charts.
My Ret Pally would top charts, tanks were always at the bottom until Cata release now it gets beat by everyone including the tank thus why I stop doing dungeons and raids with it.
As far as tanking I have the 85 Pally, and DK and been leveling a Warrior that is at 72 right now and you could not pay me to tank with any of them. For me dungeons and raids at 85 are already not fun, to tank them is simply not worth the grief or extra pressure that comes with it and for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would volunteer too.
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