[Classic WoW] Leveling Warriors should ALWAYS Want to Tank

People just never give a chance for new tank to learn how to tank. It's not that we don't want to tank we just don't want to deal with not nice people.

Biggest downside of tanking is the other players not trying to manage their agro, and AoE ops specs rating to pull massive groups. Once beyond 4 or so mobs, aggro is very difficult to keep on all if the DPS aren't trying to work with you.

This "elite" mentality that every warrior should tank Is toxic, You play the way you want to and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

As a warrior, nothing pisses me off more then to join a group thats needing a tank only to see a warrior in there

As soon as I engage the pack the dps do aoe spam and I lossless aggro

I think you missed on the biggest reason so many warriors don't want to tank. It's not that they don't tank, they do, all the time, just not in dungeons and raids. They tank in the open world. They don't even think about it, they just do it. eg. you rock up to elite mob for a quest, there's a clothy about to do it, you team up, you tank, the clothy deeps or heals or both, you win, move on.

The point is, why don't these same warriors want to tank dungeons? It's because as a tank in a dungeon, you're not just tanking the mobs, you're basically calling the shots and running the party (there are exceptions of course, but this is the norm). To do that you have to have confidence on knowing the layout of the dungeon, all the mechanics, patrols, adds, special events, which order to take things in non linear dungeons, and be able to gauge how fast/slow to pull packs and how many mobs per pull can you handle (determined by the make-up and quality of the rest of your party) etc etc. That sir, is the key reason so many people don't want to tank. Add to that that when the Tank fekks up, most party members will give them crap about it, and often even leave the group. Just sayin :)

I get that warriors should often be willing to tank as it is their most useful role, but I can definitely understand not wanting to have that responsibility.

you are missing the point, tanking as warrior is boring, dpsing is fun

WoW players are just baby’s lmao

If a warrior doesn't tank I assume he is trash and move onto one that will

I don’t necessarily agree with using 2H instead of shield because shield block is OP it gives you a buffer of taking damage and I feel like blocks increase threat I get that dealing damage does as well but I don’t want to be taking a lot of damage and if I get a bad ass shield and one hander it feels more useful than the 2hander for tanking..

Its all the idiot dps that dont focus mobs, dont chase runners dont wait for aggro. The list goes on, you must only play with your neckbeard guildies.

He is clicking and its hurting me

I love to tank dungeons on my Warrior (currently only level 20 on Fresh but got my HC Warrior to 60 and tanked everything up to and including UBRS).
Just wondering when leveling in the open world if I should be using Sunder Armor for more white auto-damage or use Heroic Strike for a bit more ability damage?
Obviously using Rend and Hamstring atm for the DoT and the kiting.

Aside from being the whole being in charge is just plain more work and stress than just doing what someone tells you to do, tanking these days is a huge pain because every caster and even some warriors want you to pull several groups at once as if you were a paladin. There is simply no way you will keep agro on all these mobs unless everyone were say attacking skull. But that is the last thing on their mind. They want to AOE dps everything at once. It's like why am I even here? I might as well go roll a paladin except I have a mental block against being a paladin.

I tanked a lot. Just put targets to keybinds (usually I do crtl+1-5). Call skull and what you want to be CC. After that do your job, shouts sunders taunt etc. if the group is good they’ll play along, if not they will fuck up and there is not much you can do, just don’t take it personally if you wipe, tank is only 1 person part of a 5/10/20/40 people group

My best tanking exp was : In hardcore classic : first DM, reached the final boss, I'm very low life, healer oom... I was like 'ok, already lost a char, not that bad.. did my best" and then "pouf" saved by my lvl up XD
I must say that the thing that bother me the most is that , I head it in different places, I'm supposed to lead the group. But I'm not very experienced so I don't feel good doing it

The top issue for most people when it comes to tanking is the rest of the group. If your gear isn't offensive enough, you will receive abuse from the dps. If your gear isn't defensive enough, you will receive abuse from the healer. If you aren't good enough as a player, you will receive abuse from everyone.

Right to the point. Relax tone. Thanks for info.

back in the day I had no idea what tanking was until I reached 60. Then I went protection and never respecced until I stopped playing at the end of wrath of the lich king

I just had a warrior in a dungeon not use any sounder armor... I kept pulling threat (hunter) and the warrior was 2x levels higher than me.

I do NOT want to tank every single goddamn time

Ive tanked every xpac and classic is 100 percent toxic and ahit for tanks

Before you have even swung your sword mage has frost novad cone of colded pulled all aggro
Hunter has multi shotted

I disagree. The biggest barrier to warrior tanking is other players. If you've never tanked before, people will ditch.

If you're too afraid to tank dungeons warrior is not the class for you.

And I see a lot of warriors make this argument for sunder being worth it while leveling and I've gotta say it's not. Especially in the lower levels. If you rock a 2 hander and HS nothing's going to rip threat off of you and you'll get through the dungeon faster because you're doing more damage.

I promise. Stop sundering and just throw in more HS's. Just try it.

I can't stand that all the reddit brained spreadsheet nerds have ruined tanking. 2h tanking is retarded. Put a shield on and fuck off.

I play exclusively solo. Argument dismantled.

Nice informational video!

Tanks top the dps and get tons of threat it is way more fun

People should be nicer to tanks and more people would be willing to do it

Reason i dont like tanking is all the DPS and healers like to act like experts even though they arent tanks youre either too slow or too fast and all they do is cry at least with pugs ill tank for friends or guildies honestly while leveling questing is faster

I main druid, i tank most everything, unless there is already a tank, then i heal if we don't have one.
Rarely do i actually get to dps a dungeon while leveling, id be foolish to expect it despite it being my main spec and main gear.
If you don't want to piss around for an hour looking for people to run an instance then why the hell would you not just do the role your class is capable of doing?

I just don't want to .. I pay out of my wallet to play so I'll do what I want to 😂😂, no issue either because a warrior as dps will usually top the damage at low level especially in trash cleave so it's not like you're leeching as dps.

Nice turbofolk

10/10 top pjesma

Im a lvl 25 human warrior and im just now for the firat time after years of playing wow trying tanking, and it is so damn rewarding and fun. I've always played it safe with DPS, but im really enjoying tanking for my various groups. The hardest part is just a few nimrods doing something stupid every once in a while, like pulling when even im not ready or when the healer is oom. Looking at you rogues and hunters.

I always wanted to tank, and in my first dungeon, way back in vanilla, I did very poorly and everyone was screaming at me. I never did another dungeon or raid. Pretty much solo'd through Shadowlands, then quit.

So you don't need proc spec to tank dgs on leveling?

i don't have a problem tanking while leveling. I have a problem with other people whom i'm tanking for. If people weren't so damn stupid/clueless, im confident in saying no warrior would have issues with tanking while leveling.

I loved tanking. I found it rather easy and I could always get groups right away.

im pretty nooby, started playing classic seriously when HC came out, I tanked my first DM in HC and almost wiped but learnt very fast

is it possible to thank with arms talents during lvling ?

The only excuse to not tank is being retarded. A priest can tank if you try hard enough.
threat>mechanics>CC>mitigation

People dont want to tank because games are supposed to be fun stress-free experiences, and tanking isnt.

Yes you can use a 2h wepon, but it stress out the healer. Is the dps incress realy worth it? If the healer go OOM becuse of your egoism and the grope die?

People don’t tank because the most challenging boss in any xpac, harsh and impatient party members

There are a lot of warriors in HC streaming who say the opposite of much of your advice. Sunder Armor is not used by many of them at all, or only on a boss. And many of them always use a Shield against a boss, no matter what.

Have you watched Guzo's Vods of his warrior leveling runs? Or anyone else that has years of experience on Warriors that give the same advice you are giving?

I'm not a warrior expert, but I do have one in HC (along with at least one of ALL the other classes available on the Alliance Side) as I am trying to learn to play one better thru the experience. (I've always been more of a Rogue, Warlock or Mage player over the years).