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I hope they can make counter work more like the D&D sentinel feat, where counters are just "punishing attacks that happen in close range." Since tanks are all in melee range of the boss most of the time, that shouldn't be a problem.
I hope the split works something like this:
In the subrole abilities:
1. "MT"s > Strong 1-person mit (can be used on anyone), weak enemy debuff/party mit
"OT"s > Strong enemy debuff/party mit, weak 1-person mit (can be used on anyone)
2. The enemy debuffs/"party mits" do not stack together, and the 1-person mits do not stack together.
A 1-person mit and a debuff/party mit can stack together. ("MTs" and "OTs" are equally defensive on their own.)
3. The "MT"s + "OT"s role skills give the greatest protection when used together, making the roles complimentary.
4. The strength of party mit, invlulns and tank swaps in general means OT/OT will be stronger than MT/MT, maybe even as strong as MT/OT. This is actually fine because if we assume an equal number of players on every class, there are more OTs than MTs, so some OTs will have to partner together. This may be a problem when there's six tanks, but that's a long ways away.
However, MTs may struggle if their kit is selfish: if their strong mits can't be shared, and they can't lose aggro, they become sub-optimal in more situations.
Roles can be done without giving either class a penalty or advantage for playing in an aggro position, which I think would be optimal. But they have to decide to do it that way. I'm looking forward to hearing more in July.
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Idk the system sounds half baked from what we saw. Off tanks will protect hte party, ok but then why did paladin still ahve passage and veil and reprisal?
It just sounds like all that'll happen is pld/ new job will have 1 counter move that makes them being main tank a dps increase. which sounds really stupid and barely a difference between the tanks.
Personally i hope it doesn't matter cause i prefer to play paladin as an off tank myself
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I think just see how it plays and am sure feedback will be collected if enough pushback or just play another role.