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Leveling a tank = profit
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Hey guys and gals,
I am currently leveling the 3rd of my tanks purely so I can exploit /trade when MoP comes out so I can sell all VP (or whatever the points will be) at an inflated price, because I won't need them. The reason for the thread is this: Did you ever level your tank specifically to tank or did you find your main spec ret, frost, arms etc...benefited you by gearing up through a quick VP/JP grab by tanking? What were the reasons behind people tanking really? |
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So you will have subpar gear and loads of gold. Whatever floats your boat. I guess if your endgame on those characters is dungeons then it doesn't matter.
Most smart people make their money work for them rather than grinding for their money. At the start of an xpac there must be a million smart ways to make gold rather than sweating your guts out for 1000vp. I too tank because I find it fun tho my healing offspec is kind of acceptable. If you add the 100+ hours it will take you to level to 90, plus the time to run the dungeons I'd wager your gold return per hour isn't that impressive. |
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This DK was leveled specificly to tank with, because I enjoy the role.
Simple as that ! |
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Lvl'ed as Blood.
Tanked WotLK as Frost. Started cata as Frost DPS and here comes the answer to your question: Took Blood as OS for the queue time and VP farming ;) |
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Can't you do the same on a DPS/healer? Doesn't take me long to cap VP on my DK DPS/Pala Healer.
For me I just fell in love with warr tanking, my first tank was a pala and I just found it horrendously boring, I tanked everything with one ability (HotR) and it was getting boring fast, then I lvl'd a warr with a friend and never looked back, TL;DR I tank because I like tanking (On my warr.) I suppose you might make more money as tank because gemming/enching a tank is hilariously cheaper compared to a healer/dps (7g gems instead of 300g rubies? Yes please.) |
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I started tanking on a warrior because I was forced into it in TBC where if you were a warrior....you HAD to tank because that is how the social aspect worked back then. I had a wowmidlifecrisis and decided that if I was going to tank, then it would be my choice and leveled the Paladin solely for tanking ICC (this was pre wrath) and by the time WOTLK had come out I had just hit lvl 80.
I tank then quit tanking, then go back to tanking again...alot...I am now back into it, it just draws you back in. The sense of responsibility for others is nice, but often a bit of a chore. VP gold is also obtainable about 3 times as fast on a tank which means you can spam dungeons and be capped on 3 tanks in about 2-3 hours. So, gold per hour is actually more like 5-10k +++ when the expack comes out, the same as any other professions. |
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Prot since TBC. But since dual spec i lvl as fury because it goes faster.
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I have 2 tanks but I cannot bring myself to cap VP for the sole purpose of money, I would rather fish!
Maybe it's because they are two rage classes and unfortunately IRL rage doesn't convert into the nice red bar which is a shame cos I only get angry with ninja pulls and no rage! |
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Our feast bank would appreciate that :p And why I tank? Because I love it, and I have the best awareness as a tank in all 3 roles. When I heal, I have no clue where people are. When I DPS, I have some clue, but I tunnel vision a LOT. As a tank? I can the rotation no problem, I can easily see where things are, etc. Also the responsibility I suppose, if I do my job well, usually things go well. If it is a raid, I can carry the other tank to some degree (unless it's something like lolfadinglight). If I were to be a DPS, I can't carry 5-6 other people by being good if they are bad. And if the 2 tanks synch well and know what they are doing in an encounter... Well, that is a HUGE load off the raid leaders shoulders. |
