Quote Originally Posted by Oizen View Post
They're not going to make content too hard for one tank to do, they're going to homogenize everything to a point where every tank can clear every content, which is really disheatening but its why things have gotten as bad as they are.
To be fair, it doesn't have to be one OR the other. WoW's Tanks in the post-Vanilla (BC and on) years were all capable of tanking any content, but some fights were better/easier for some of the Tank specs to do than others - but not so much so that the weaker ones COULDN'T do them. I THINK it was Protection Paladin was good in AOE situations (an AOE taunt, AOE continuous damage with Consecration/Hallowed Ground/whatever the ground AOE thing was called back then, and the best shield mechanics meaning blocking lots of hits), Death Knight's initial release had all three specs capable of tanking, but this was eventually condensed into it being the kind of anti-magic tank with extra magic mitigation, Warrior was the good tank against physical damage bosses, and then Druid was kind of an "all arounder" tank since Bear just had stupid high HP and so could be a damage sponge against any type of damage at the cost of your healers having to work a bit harder to make up for the extra health needing to be healed. But, even when out of their specialty, they were still ABLE to tank other things, like Death Knight tanking a physical damage boss or Warrior tanking AOE.

I say this about Healers all the time, too; it's entirely possible to have niches and make a more interesting game without being broken. The trick is to make it where all Jobs in a given role can do the Job at a base level and the differences are niches rather than complete sub-roles in their own right that no other Job can even handle.

That said, it requires effort to do it right, and often results in some things being less "optimal" than others, which means THE COMMUNITY would have to accept that the different Tanks would do different amounts of damage and/or require different amounts of healing and so on depending on the fight.

The problem is as much on the community as it is on the devs, imo.