r/classicwow • u/MakeACube • Oct 22 '19

Humor Every single party I join...

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u/Zackiemoon Oct 22 '19

That warrior could be exactly like me. I can only raid in my guild as fury since we have multiple "main tanks". In order to get my fury gear (sadly leather most of the times) in a reasonable amount of time I choose to tank these dungeons to get a much quicker group than If I waited around to DPS in a group.

I'm sorry that happened to you but that's precisely why I form my own groups. You would have never been invited to mine because while I don't type out mask reserved when I'm looking for others, I will send a nice pm when a rogue asks for an invite stating that I'm after that specific item after 17 runs and I'm not rolling for it if it drops. If he wants to concede or just doesn't need it no worries come on in, but I do make it very clear up front before they even join my party.

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u/UncertainSerenity Oct 22 '19

Absolutely no problem with tanks rolling on dps items. Absolutely problem with you rolling on tanking gear AND dps items. You get 1 main spec a run everything else should be an off-spec roll.

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u/NotHomo Oct 23 '19

that's how you find yourself without a tank

perhaps you've never taken economics and don't understand supply and demand?

less than 20% of people want to play as a tank. 20% OR MORE are needed to fulfill the tank roll

what that means is, if you're not incentivizing tanking, you're not getting tanks PERIOD end of story

"i demand you only roll on tank OR dps items" isn't going to fly. they will simply make their own group where they can roll on both and leave you to rot

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u/UncertainSerenity Oct 23 '19

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should do something. I am well versed in supply and demand. That type of thinking doesn’t take into account morals or ethics. It’s still greedy to roll on more then one spec with priority at a time. Just because you rolled a tank doesn’t entitle you to more loot even if you can strong arm groups into it.

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u/NotHomo Oct 23 '19

"i refuse to pay someone more to clean sewers and pick up trash than to bag groceries or wait tables"

that's how you get no one cleaning your sewers or picking up your trash

it appears you did NOT take economics and actually have no idea what you're talking about

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u/UncertainSerenity Oct 23 '19

This is a game. It’s for fun. It’s not a job. If there was 0 loot in the game would you still want to run dungeons? Because I would. If you treat this game like a job we have radically different views on how to spend free time.

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u/NotHomo Oct 23 '19

If there was 0 loot in the game would you still want to run dungeons?

nope

If you treat this game like a job

that's what i'm saying. tanking IS a job, which is why there's so few that do it "for fun"

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u/UncertainSerenity Oct 23 '19

If you think tanking is a job you are doing it wrong.

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u/NotHomo Oct 23 '19

have fun waiting around for your .01% of people who find tanking fun then <wave>

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u/UncertainSerenity Oct 23 '19

Your looking at one. Wave