Your logic is quite flawed here, guys.

If so many people really wanted to play tanks, they would do it even if there was only one tank spec in the whole game. Same goes for healers.

Many just prefer DPS as main char / spec because of the simplicity and also the big numbers on the charts. There's nothing wrong with that, mind you, we all play to have fun, and everybody finds fun a different way. But is has NOTHING to do with the different available specs at this point, 4 different tanks with pretty different gameplay offer good variety for people who want to tank. If they don't tank, it's because they don't want to, and not because of some esoteric spreadsheet percentage.

 

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Korrigan everything, including the meaning of life can be explained through spreadsheets and statistics.

 

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42!!!

 

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WoW is the first MMO where a tank or healer can solo as well (in almost every case, better) than a dps. Veteran MMO gamers know this, the majority of WoW's population (fresh to MMOs) does not, so they just choose a dps class. Other than that, I think the responsibility thing is an issue as well, as most of WoW's players are casual-very casual and play one handed while eating hot pockets and watching TV.

Not to mention it's tough discussing tank, healer and dps differences in this game because there is so much homogenization of all the classes. WoW doesn't really have classes anymore, it really only has two options...hybrids (multi-dimensional) and pure dps (one-dimensional).

 

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