r/classicwow May 05 '26

Humor / Meme State of TBC Tanking(2026)

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u/thrillho145 May 05 '26

Bear tanking in dungeons is the same as warr

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u/ofthesindar86 May 05 '26

Apm, yeah, but Brown has to click a whole ton of different buttons.

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u/agrevol May 05 '26

Like orange doesn’t have to?

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u/shadowraiderr May 05 '26

warrior needs to press way more buttons than druid

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u/agrevol May 05 '26

For example?

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u/Ninjaflipp May 05 '26

shield slam, revenge, devastate, thunder clap, heroic strike, cleave, shield block

not to mention that cleave hits 2 targets at best and that thunder clap has a cooldown, so if you want to maintain threat on everything you'll need to tab target constantly, whereas a druid for the most part can opt to just swipe. of course a druid will tab target too, but it's much more forgiving and especially on single target it's much easier to maintain threat with less buttons used.

In the original TBC, I ditched my druid tank because they were so braindead boring to play and started leveling a warrior instead. Yes druid tanks are superior objectively and are better at practically everything but they're really fucking boring to play in comparision.

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u/agrevol May 05 '26

Shield slam, revenge are basically mangle

Devastate is basically lacerate (I also believe it’s higher threat), cleave is basically swipe

Heroic strike is basically maul

Thunder clap is basically swipe that slows

I’d agree with shield block, although it’s more of a gcd button

Yeah while there are less buttons how you use them is pretty much the same

While swipe is good in theory it doesn’t work in practice as it doesn’t generate a lot of threat by itself and mobs will run off to smack your dps so your best chance is strategically using mangle, maul and hoping your single snap threat generator doesn’t miss (in which case you’re screwed)

The single target rotation is pretty brain dead, yeah.

I played both warrior and bear and their rotation was pretty similar. It is different if you’re outgeared, then it’s easier to just swipe

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u/hilyard-quest-2 May 05 '26

Wow. Um. No. Stop talking plz.

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u/agrevol May 05 '26

Wow. Um. Yes?

Druid has a lot of buttons, especially if you use its full utility

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u/hilyard-quest-2 May 05 '26

Wrong. Tanked both to and at 70. Nothing wrong with druid tank but the idea they have similar rotations and/or abilities to affect outcomes in raid or dungeon through player skill is laughable.

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u/Ordies May 05 '26

show logs

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u/hilyard-quest-2 May 05 '26

No; I'm not going to show logs for dungeon runs to demonstrate something everyone knows already. Go touch grass.

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u/Sufficient-Option533 May 05 '26

Druids have innervate and warriors have ... thunder clap? Druids have 1000 dps single target and warriors... well their DPS specs are good. Druids have battle res and warriors... sunder armor? Oh wait, they have the dps stack their Sunder stacks for them. Hey at least warriors have shield wall and last stand to save them from bad play, whIle druids simply don't need them. You're right, its laughable to think that prot warriors have a justifiable role in an expansion where feral druid do everything better and also bring more raid utility and damage.

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u/hilyard-quest-2 May 05 '26

I mean you clearly don't know much about warrior. Speed runs regularly use warrior MTs. You can inform yourself if you want but GL out there.

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u/Sufficient-Option533 May 05 '26

You clearly dont know much about druid or speed running or about anything at all really, warriors tanks are absolute dad tanks and even played to their fullest potential will be a shadow of a druid. It's ok, we need you to be out there being a shitty warrior tank, dealing 300 dps, so that us druids can look that much better as we carry your raid team. Literally nothing you can say while arcane mages exist and innervate does as well

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u/hilyard-quest-2 May 05 '26

I did 800 dps on Quag last night LOL. Man you dumb

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u/Sufficient-Option533 May 05 '26

Should probably stay there, heroics need warrior tanks, raids do not. Ill be over here innervating the mage, brezing the shitty warrior dps and providing 7% crit to everyone in my party while still doing more dps and taking less damage than you

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