That’s right, you heard me
Not enough tanks and all that jazz but I have the solution
Give them damage options in their talent trees, when they get geared and good at the game they can start dropping live saving talents so they can crack some skulls
I honestly wouldn’t give a damn as a dps if the tanks I was with did as much damage I did
In fact I’d be way more likely to take up tanking myself
No, go away
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And make dps and healer’s tougher. Like who needs a tank tougher. And give them taunt skills.
Then we can phase out the tank role
Could you imagine the egos? The meter linking? The sheer unbearability?
They already think they’re God’s gift to PvE, this would create a singularity of haughtiness that would delete us all.
This already happens.
That is how tanking has been for a couple of expansions now. Tanks gear/talent for dps most of the time, they do about equal damage in aoe(m+) and a around 2/3 in single target.
What? You want tank to be like a fire mage doing top dmg, what you smoking there?
If I could be more powerful as a tank than as a DPS, I would play a tank. Yeah! That sounds like a cool solution to the “not enough tanks” problem.
Of all the things they could do to make tank and healing more appealing to dps players, adding more dps is probably the laziest solution.
But they still won’t do it.
Tell me tanks dont do damage when they have 3 items with +3 Twilight Devastation.
Tanks don’t do much damage when they have 3 items with Twilight Devastation.
But yeah, General Discussion can’t make up its mind on this.
On one hand, it’s always “We need more tanks! We need more tanks!”
And the rest of the time, it’s “Tanks are NOT allowed to have fun because we HATE them!!”
I think that would be fine for PvE personally. The problem is PvP, and it is a problem, I hate that the game ever gets balanced around it. A tank in pvp with dps damage is at a serious advantage. Personally I’d just as soon my tanks in dungeons/raids do as much or more damage than me though, that’s all to the good.
Bring back Vengeance cheesing from SoO
Aren’t we though?
Tanks are actually quite fun now peeps. All have decent DPS and tank builds.
Any tank can have a ‘uuuuggee uptime on Strength of the Warden while having Crucible of Flame as a decent DPS option.
Most already do, Paladins tend to run Sera in all but high progression where they need the defensive to survive (for most this would be like Mythic raiding or 20+ M+)
It is also not uncommon for our defenses to need offense to work, like ShotR is a shield slam that increases our armor for a bit,
Here, I’ll sum it up “We need tanks to be our slaves so we can have fun and any tank that will not do what we want is trash because they are should be nothing but a way for us DPS to progress”.
I’d settle for resolve cheesing, give me more control over my own health so healers can focus on the DPS and the clench moments.
I think 5 targets is not enough, but I think SL having an “optimal pull size” could be the right direction to make tanking more appealing. Just some way to know you’re objectively going at the correct speed.
wait tanks dont do dps yet?
They’re already impossible to kill out in PvP, making them do a ton of damage would be horrible. On top of that Warrior tanks actually do quite a respectable amount of damage. Especially AoE.
Also Twilight Devastation exists and it is completely busted on BDK and VDH
Tanks to probably too much dps as it is. We don’t need to add more to it. Plenty of tanks doing over 50k dps overall in keys. It doesn’t need to be higher.