Thread: 2.0 coming up on first birthday -- DPS queue issue still not addressed.

Originally Posted by Zumi

Doesn't matter how many tank or healer classes there are if people don't want to tank or heal they won't tank or heal. Half the classes in wow have a healing spec and tank spec but there still is a shortage of those. You can't blame SE for more players playing dps over tank and healers.

Sorry if I didn't understand your post correctly...
I haven't played WoW myself, but if half the classes in wow have healing and tank spec, doesn't that mean half of the classes are DPS? Wouldn't it be similar to FFXIV:ARR right now? With 4 tank/heal classes and 4 or 5 DPS classes?

I always thought adding more tank classes in the game would help alleviating the tank shortage issue.

Originally Posted by Chromheart

Sorry if I didn't understand your post correctly...
I haven't played WoW myself, but if half the classes in wow have healing and tank spec, doesn't that mean half of the classes are DPS? Wouldn't it be similar to FFXIV:ARR right now? With 4 tank/heal classes and 4 or 5 DPS classes?

I always thought adding more tank classes in the game would help alleviating the tank shortage issue.

In the short term maybe. People will want to try them, including existing tanks. It won't just draw dps to it.

After people have gotten to try it, it'll just go back to what we have now. An extra tank class and about the same number of tanks we had before.

If they make one so fun/strong/aesthetically pleasing it just means existing tanks will have to change mains.