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You hop online and decide that you want to run a dungeon real quick. It is just a matter of finding a healer and tank, sadly all the ones in guide are otherwise occupied or running their alts and your friend list is vacant after you ask in guide for some help and get two of your DPS friends. You give up and log off for the night, cursing the lack of healers and tanks after forty minutes of spamming in every chat imaginable. Sound familiar? If you have never experienced this scenario in the Wow or any MMORPG for that matter, count yourself lucky. Lacking tanks and heals is a staple we have all come to accept, and complain about to no end. But never fear, Blizzard is here to save the day, all right?
In patch 3.1, Blizzard is giving us duel specs, for a small one time fee, any character can set up two separate specs and switch between them for nothing, which means that every one can have a Player vs. Environment and Player vs. Players spec and switch freely, and most importantly this means hybrids can switch between tank/heals and DPS. In theory this will solve all of the World of Warcraft gold problems. Now that enhance Shaman will happily switch to restoration with no cost to them and heal and it's just a matter of replacing the DPS spot!
We highly doubt it as much as we would love to believe that to be the case. In the World of Warcraft we have been a healer or a tank for most of the time and let us tell you, we hate doing pick up groups. You have the ability to ask any healer or tank about their PUG stories and they will tell you horror stories.
But you certainly can share similar stories as your Hunter, so what's the problem? As a Hunter, the thing is unless you pulled the mob accidentally and wiped the group, you rarely get blamed. Anytime something goes wrong, it's the tank or the healer's fault. Even if the DPS ignores threat trying to see big numbers scroll across their screen or stands there doing nothing the whole fight because they had to check "My Space". It is instantly assumed if something went wrong that it was the healer or the tank.
That's the reason that you aren't getting that healer and tank spot filled so easily. Most tanks and healers refuse to PUG. Just flat out refuse to do anything outside of running with their guild. This will continue once duel specs come out. Once the aggravation of being blamed for every single wipe kicks in, no one will volunteer to switch from DPS and heal or tank for PUGs.
But the worse thing about all this is that there is no tank shortage or healer shortage. The tank shortage of The Burning Crusade was just heroic tank shortage. And the problem was everyone wanted Paladins to tank so they could not use Crowd Control and just Area of Effect the place down. They refused to tank Warriors and Druids. Healers were the same way, if you couldn't Area of Effect heal due to people wanting to run instances in the fastest way possible you were useless, so Paladin healers had it hard. This continues now.
There will be a tank and healer shortage all the way, until people start treating other players right in PUGs and especially once the blame isn't instantly thrown around.
In patch 3.1, Blizzard is giving us duel specs, for a small one time fee, any character can set up two separate specs and switch between them for nothing, which means that every one can have a Player vs. Environment and Player vs. Players spec and switch freely, and most importantly this means hybrids can switch between tank/heals and DPS. In theory this will solve all of the World of Warcraft gold problems. Now that enhance Shaman will happily switch to restoration with no cost to them and heal and it's just a matter of replacing the DPS spot!
We highly doubt it as much as we would love to believe that to be the case. In the World of Warcraft we have been a healer or a tank for most of the time and let us tell you, we hate doing pick up groups. You have the ability to ask any healer or tank about their PUG stories and they will tell you horror stories.
But you certainly can share similar stories as your Hunter, so what's the problem? As a Hunter, the thing is unless you pulled the mob accidentally and wiped the group, you rarely get blamed. Anytime something goes wrong, it's the tank or the healer's fault. Even if the DPS ignores threat trying to see big numbers scroll across their screen or stands there doing nothing the whole fight because they had to check "My Space". It is instantly assumed if something went wrong that it was the healer or the tank.
That's the reason that you aren't getting that healer and tank spot filled so easily. Most tanks and healers refuse to PUG. Just flat out refuse to do anything outside of running with their guild. This will continue once duel specs come out. Once the aggravation of being blamed for every single wipe kicks in, no one will volunteer to switch from DPS and heal or tank for PUGs.
But the worse thing about all this is that there is no tank shortage or healer shortage. The tank shortage of The Burning Crusade was just heroic tank shortage. And the problem was everyone wanted Paladins to tank so they could not use Crowd Control and just Area of Effect the place down. They refused to tank Warriors and Druids. Healers were the same way, if you couldn't Area of Effect heal due to people wanting to run instances in the fastest way possible you were useless, so Paladin healers had it hard. This continues now.
There will be a tank and healer shortage all the way, until people start treating other players right in PUGs and especially once the blame isn't instantly thrown around.
