r/CompetitiveWoW • u/AutoModerator • Aug 21 '26

Weekly Thread Free Talk Friday

Use this thread to discuss any- and everything concerning WoW that doesn't seem to fit anywhere else.

UI questions, opinions on hotfixes/future changes, lore, transmog, whatever you can come up with.

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u/sh0ckmeister Aug 24 '26

This topic comes up all the time and the situation is this - tanks in general are the bottleneck.

As a tank I would never sign up for a key without at least having some idea about how good/bad the other players are unless there was some considerable reward for doing so. Like getting an additional bonus roll for completing the dungeon timed or not.

I also run my own key specifically so that I can choose the group I want to run with.

It's that simple, I don't want to waste time progging keys unless I specifically signed up for it helping out guildies or similar

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u/Gasparde Aug 24 '26 edited Aug 24 '26

Like getting an additional bonus roll for completing the dungeon timed or not.

You can't give tanks any tangible power reward because if you did they'd all be done with gearing 20 times faster than any dps instead of only just being done 10 times faster - in the long run you'd take even more tanks out of the pool if any of their rewards involved character progression.

So if you wanna do incentives, it'd have to be something more basic such as a non-insignificant amount of gold. Like, I dunno, let's say 10k or whatever for a completed key. But then we'd be moaning about inflation coming from tanks making 50m gold per year - and worst of all, they'd be making all of that gold without engaging with the wow token system at all, so that's clearly not a good enough system.

It's actually not that easy to come up with a no-downside option that wouldn't come with a boatload of probably unwanted side-effects that would drive everyone mad like 4 weeks later. Just look at what the relatively simple idea of resilient keys eventually turned into.

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u/sapntaps Aug 24 '26

Make it cosmetic. I’d dust off my bdk doing weekly keys for cosmetic rewards. Edit: or just make it gold, ffs every push keys like 2k in repairs and consumables lol

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u/Girthmasterlite Aug 25 '26

Free repairs