Filed under: Warrior, Analysis / Opinion, Instances, Raiding, (Warrior) The Care and Feeding of Warriors

One of the complaints I see from day to day on the WoW forums and even here on WoW Insider is, to paraphrase is, “there are all these level 70 warriors and yet I can’t find a tank.” I have a variety of responses to that statement as a protection warrior at level 70. It might be how you ask, for one thing: a polite tell from someone asking me whether I’ll tank heroic Ramparts once saw me taking an entire group of relatively new 70’s through both heroic Hellfire instances. It’s plus possible that, while I am a tank, I don’t feel like tanking for you with an hour to go before raid date, since I’ll be tanking that entire day. But I’m curious about that mindset that assumes that with all these level 70 warriors, you should be able to find a tank.

I don’t see “all these level 70 paladins and druids and I can’t find a tank” nearly as often. Now, I understand that paladins and druids can heal, and the general populace finds that to be just as valuable. But I know there are a host of DPS druids and paladins out there. While they’re derided to some degree (and unfairly so, but that column isn’t named Matthew Rossi defends every one of the tanking classes whether they choose to DPS - we know it’s unfair, we’ll let it go at that) there doesn’t seem to be that absolute assumption that the first and best role of any class that can tank is to tank the way it seems to be there for warriors.

Now, I love tanking. I’m good at it, I enjoy the challenge, I stay up all night working on threat sets, avoidance/mitigation sets, stamina sets, I go to sites like Wowhead and look at shields all day. Tanking is my notion of a good duration. So I’m certainly not arguing that warriors cannot, or should not, tank.

I’m arguing that they should not tank just considering you want them to.

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Original post by Matthew Rossi