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Does WoW Have All The Classes It Needs?
Player Versus Developer — ... Instead, Blizzard decided to go with dual specs so that current players of healing-capable classes could learn to do so. Though I don't have statistics to back this up, it does seem like finding a healer for a PUG (if not necessarily a great healer) has gotten much easier since patch 3.1. This solution is not necessarily ideal, as it blurs character identity. Then again, as Spinks observes, adding more and more tanking class options don't necessarily help find the tanks raid slots. That may be just as important a factor as the actual merit of the classes in question. ...

The tank "problem"
Greedy goblin — It's well-known and reiterated, last time by Spinks. The description is simple: A 5-man needs 1 tank, 1 healer and 3 DPS. A 25 man needs 2 tanks 4-7 healers and 16-19 DPS. So a guild either does not have tanks to run 5-mans, or have too many for raids. With dual specs the ...

A world without tanks
Of Teeth and Claws — ... to this dogmatic chunk of game design are hardly a unique occurrence in the MMO blogging community, in fact the topic is a perennial favorite. Oddly enough though, tanking is rarely fingered as the part of the trinity that must be disrupted; more often than not ...