I am 100% with you man! If a monk in leather armor can get wailed on, then by god we should be able to put our scales to good use and tank too! Plate tanks make sense but LEATHER? Cmon man. If we have leather tanks then we should definitely have mail tanks!
Could be called Scalewarden or Warder, Blacktalon like you said, w/e, I don’t care. I just want to be able to tank too! I enjoy Devastation and Preservation and would kill to be able to tank too. I like being able to fill roles as needed and I love dragons, so if we could tank then this would be the perfect spec/race combo for me.
From Augmentation that could be used for tanking I really like Blistering Scales + Molten Blood. Upheaval and Eruption are really cool abilities visually + their cc components. Past that, leaning into abilities that mitigate dmg, do dmg and so on should be the bread and butter of Scalewarden. Past that, you could really incorporate any other flight’s magic. Red would do a mix of dmg and healing, Green would just straight up heal you and or shield you, or Bronze could help you rewind dmg and probably do shields too.
Personally, I don’t like Augmentation. I understand it can be really good but playing it doesn’t feel good - to me. Now if I could tank, as well as heal and dps like a Paladin can, on my DURGON? O my, that’s a dream come true.
In short, agreed. Dragons should be able to tank <3