Tank Centered Game
I’ve been playing since original Classic. Played most expacs except, WoD, DF and WW. Came back for Midnight. During the time I took a break from WoW I played other games, including other MMOs. Some where even in 4-person content there is no specific tank role.
WoW has lot of great things going for it. I’ve been enjoying coming back to it. However, as someone who is predominantly a PvE person, (raids and mythic +) I’m being thrown off by how reliant we are as a group on tank’s actions. I know this has kind of always been part of WoW. After playing MMOs where there aren’t tanks in the same way, it really seems like a wild amount of pressure to put on 1-2 people. It also seems to center prog on mostly tanks as I think back to the bottlenecks in progging to AOTC.
Tank doesn’t know perfect timing in a key and it’s bricked. Tanks don’t know how to swap and share your prog isn’t going anywhere. Even if healers and dps are on point. Do other people see a future where content isn’t so strict in terms of its role requirements for PvE?