Tank Shortage?

A new class isn't going to fix our tank shortage. We have no shortage of classes or builds that can tank. What we have is a shortage of people willing to tank and to put up with the people in the group that never learn group dynamics.

The whole group dynamics and whining from this same group is why I quit tanking in the first place. It became to much like work.

The Tank Shortage is from all of us folks that were willing to tank either finding good guilds and only tanking for those guilds or else giving up all together. Personally I only tank for friends now a days and when I do I remember why I loved to tank.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble but unless this puts a spark of interest into some folks to pick up tanking, the whole Death Knights can tank issue means nothing.

why the report button dissapears when you vote a comment?

reported him for you! and voted down...

aww man, merely pointing to where a good deal of the wowinsider news these days comes from and after all this blog linked to the wiki before themselves. Just being helpful while wowinsider is too chicken shit to host info themselves.

There's a difference between "being chicken" and a lawsuit.

the difference in this case is the bakhanded weasly way of just benefitting from others taking that risk it seems :)

The reason they arent hosting the information directly has nothing to do with a lawsuit. Blizzard cant sue wowinsider because someone else broke a NDA. The reason wowinsider isnt hosting the data is so Blizz stays happy with them and hooks them up at Blizzcon. And there is no reason to vote down or report his link to the wotlk wiki. There are plenty of articles that link to it from the article itself.

im pretty sure that wowinsider avoids posts based on the leaked alpha because blizz could claim that the text would be a violation of copyright. i.e. some new spell text could be word for word claimed as having a copyright covering it. this does not include video or screenshots, as these, according to common law, have been considered as user generated. it would be different if those screenshots or video had been produced by blizz and placed with copyright.
as far as i know, wowinsider hasnt signed a non-discloser agreement, and anyone with leaked info should not fear legal wrath, unless they had. blizzard can request that info be removed, and as a courtesy, wowinsider has in the past. legally however, once the info is out there, its done.

haha i doubt blizz really cares. all the leaked information just keeps people interested in whats happening and hypes it all up more.

if they really wanted the wikia site taken down it wouldnt be up anymore

Blizzard has no easy legal way of shutting down that site. The copyright does not apply, because the text snippets are too small to be covered by copyright. EULA does not apply, because you don't need to accept the EULA to unpack the game files. Espionage and trades secret legislation does not apply, because the file were hosted by Blizzard on an URL that was not protected. DMCA does not apply for the same reasons.

So the only leash Blizzard has with the gaming sites is the carrot of preferential treatment at expos, betas and press releases and they can threaten to take away that carrot if the news sites don't take down their WotLK alpha info. That does not apply to the leak site mentioned in a comment ago. The WotLK alpha leak site is also easy to Google.

If the trees represent the method by which one tanks or deals damage, and by picking abilities within the trees one becomes either DPS or a tank of that particular style (if Blood contributes to HP, Frost improves damage absorption via armor, and Unholy improves dodge and parry you'd have three styles of tanking...but other means of differentiation are possible). While people will certainly decide on the talents they consider best for the roles, if the tanking talents are split then the ideal tank build will probably be a hybrid, rather than a single tree.

Don't min-maxers eventually say that one particular spec is best for a particular purpose and all others suck? Whether the final "tanking spec" people agree upon is in Frost or Blood or wherever, it'll still be set in stone by people who believe that you have to be the absolute "best" at something. They often say that anything less is "gimping" your raid.

Certainly I agree that it's good to be the best you can be, but how do you really define "best?" Is it merely that you do the most damage, maintain the highest survivability, or have the most mana-efficient healing? Is the situation in high-end raiding really such that nothing except these numbers matters?

This is one of the things that always depressed me about playing a rogue. I liked the subtlety tree, but people always told me combat was best for raw DPS. Is such "superiority" of one spec over another Blizzard's failure in their talent design? or is it the players' failure to appreciate the different advantages each talent spec can bring?

David, I feel the exact same about subtlety. Combat is the most boring spec of all of the rogue ones. Even assassination is completely uneventful compared to everything you have to do with sub.

I will agree; As an affliction PvE lock, I notice that there a lot of new talents 'earlier' in the affliction tree that I would like to pick, but have absolutely no intention on picking up some of the top tier talents because of their PvP orientation. Similarly, the destruction tree is looking juicy, even as having an affliction spec. I've always wanted Ruin AND Unstable Affliction. We're shaping up to be powerhouses in the PvE realm, that's for sure.