The Winners & Losers of The War Within: Tank Classes To Avoid, Try & Play!

Tanks, you know the deal. The War Within's anti-tank agenda continues, but on the bright side - here are the specs that are still coming into the expansion as winners. Maybe you made the cut?

[Nicupos]

Brew Master Monk 4:00
Blood Death Knight 5:03
Protection paladin 6:40
Protection Warrior 7:43
Vengeance Demon Hunter 8:52
Guardian Druid 9:56

[worldbreaker]

The only losers in WoW are players who follow meta instead of picking a class and spec that gives them the most fun.

[rogervanbaren]

to be fair, as long as the numbers are relatively okay, i don't mind hearing that Guardian Druid is boring. i have shaman/mage button-bloat PTSD, so i'm kinda cool with my tank being less complex. 🧸

[TheFallorn]

“If you love it, you’ll probably love it”
[nodding wisely] true, true

[jandolezel]

Biggest W for Guardian druid is that other druid specs and in even worse condition so you're probably the one bringing Vers buff

[Empire]

I actually really like the idea of giving tanks huge hp pools and less spikey damage. Blizzard talked about how they want mana management to be a part of healer gameplay. I think this is better than what we have.

[Ixamxthextallest]

this is reminding me of our transition out of wotlk (where tanks could aoe pull half the dungeon and be fine) and into cata (where we had to cc troublesome mob packs and things started off just... tougher all round on us. Kinda hoping that's the case, as right now everyone is mostly sitting on utility and leaning hard into tunnel visioning to top meters. Anyone else tired of the "oh no, my parses!" shenanigans we've been dealing with?

[tintopstudios]

Yeah still irritated that they put a mana tax on word of glory.

[KosmicKane]

“How do you challenge a god?” You don’t. That’s why we play tanks we don’t want to be challenged we want to be immortal and strong

[dustson]

funny though that guardian druid is the highest candidate for being the meta tank

[durk]

Guardian not being changed much, actually sounds perfect to me, cuz I am Not a Natural Tank, it being flat, boring, easy is Perfect... if I want flavor on my Guardian I'll go Feral...

[Thrano]

Small correction on prot warriors: Defensive Stance already does not reduce damage dealt, the actual change is its general DR being reduced to 16% down from 20%

[deanfromhungary]

I am happy with my easy straight forward bear bro

[JulianaBlewett]

There was a brewmaster Monk in amirdrassil. It was an awakened raid. Nymue. Every one in the raid was dead but the monk. He was 6.2 mill hp and he just decimated the boss.

[mattb]

It really makes me glad that I'm hearing content creators bringing up the 'to damage tanks we'd need to turn damage too far up' argument. I argued that for a while. Blizz does not tune with a scalpel. To increase damage where the Dragonflight tanks would feel it, it'd make DPS and Healers players just fall over to unavoidable radial damage.

[renta_warrior]

You'd think Tanks would learn "how to take a hit". :P

[FragMaster]

i would personally have liked a stamina buff to go with these nerfs so we're not that much weaker overall and the healers have more Hp to keep up which the tanks can't.

[robertfrederick]

I got an idea to make players not feel like gods... Reduce their dang hit points. No reason to have players running around with that much health which means NPCs health can be scaled down and DPS numbers can be scaled down.

[akxeros]

The sad thing about the video is that in the end it doesn't say anything at all. :D

[shanethesmith]

Is it possible they're keeping Druid simple to make sure there's a class that's approachable for new and returning players?

As someone who only plays WoW intermittently (and tends to be indecisive about my role when I do play), the simplicity of Druid specs is part of the appeal. This is especially true when I try to tank, since tanking tends to require more situational awareness than other roles, and I don't need to be spending a lot of time staring at my skill and resource bars to figure out which skill to use next.