Originally Posted by
justandulas
by far, the hardest role in classic is a tank and it isn't even up to debate. Disagreeing with that is simply ignorance of the subject.
And yes, tanking in classic-tbc is hard because of the threat. Paladins struggle with holding threat on raid bosses, and warriors struggle on aoe pulls because then they turn into juggling artists rather than focusing on any set rotation.
If it was easy, everyone would do it but there's a shortage on the classic realms (not the retail) side for a reason, because it is harder. Harder even than retail.
Mythic raiding has harder fights to coordinate no doubt about it, but when is the last time your tank lost aggro in a mythic or heroic raid? Ever since wotlk, it's nearly impossible for a tank with even half a brain to lose aggro. There is no dps player in the entire world of warcraft capable of pulling off my tank in retail, it is statistically impossible.
Now, for classic? I'm probably the best threat generating warrior tank i know, i outperformed my counterpart when he had thunderfury and i did not, but threat is still very real. Even if your rotation is perfection, a good dps player should be able to overcome that threat such as a mage in classic, or a good sbolt spam lock in tbc bt. The tank simply does not have the tools to counter when a dps player is dropping 10k nukes on a boss.
And notice i didn't even mention the community yet, which can treat tanks like rock star's when they are at the top but are monstrously unforgiving of new tank players.
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dual spec isn't the issue here, classic had way more tanks for example. The issue is that warriors become gimp as dps in tbc so all the warrior mains rerolled or quit, and those remaining, are likely prot like myself.
Out of the dozens of warriors we had in classic... I legit think im the last one standing as all of them went lock/paladin to a man.
Dual spec wouldn't help this at all because fury/arms will still be half a dps spec compared to classic, or to dps classes in tbc
edit: I guess it would give paladin's more flexibility in the tank department tho, so i stand corrected.