Live Letter 3.2 tank changes, vit effects tank attack

Heh. In light of the rumored PvP changes and their supposed desire to enliven that aspect of the game...I find this potentially hilarious.

Either tank damage is a decent amount lower after this change, or they're just shooting themselves in "that" foot.

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Originally Posted by Doudousteve

Damage from bosses and enemies will probably scale up to balance the change.

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Maybe. If not, healers will still have no reason not to throw out some dots and actively DPS to help a run go faster or to help burn down mobs or a boss quicker like they should be.

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Originally Posted by ReddAxel

This means healers have no excuse to not dps now that tanks will have all this extra HP to spare. No excuses whatsoever.

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I highly doubt that it will motive all the healers to start dpsing.

But it makes me happy that the warrior tanks will stop dying during one cleric stance dance.

What does this mean for paladins? I know that paladin is the CD heavy brick wall of the three but do they have more VIT? If so, are they going to be looked down on less? I'm just curious, since I enjoy switching between the three tanks but lately it's war/drk or GTFO.

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Originally Posted by Agrios

What does this mean for paladins? I know that paladin is the CD heavy brick wall of the three but do they have more VIT? If so, are they going to be looked down on less? I'm just curious, since I enjoy switching between the three tanks but lately it's war/drk or GTFO.

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Job Adjustments Part II

In regards to tanks, we’ll be looking at each of the three jobs’ defense traits and making overall adjustments to their values. Amongst the adjustments, paladin will be receiving large adjustments. Not only in terms of their offensive-aspects, but overall adjustments as well.

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*cough* PALLY BUFFS *COUGH*

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Originally Posted by Pinkie_Pie

*cough* PALLY BUFFS *COUGH*

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This makes me happy. So very happy.

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Originally Posted by Agrios

What does this mean for paladins? I know that paladin is the CD heavy brick wall of the three but do they have more VIT? If so, are they going to be looked down on less? I'm just curious, since I enjoy switching between the three tanks but lately it's war/drk or GTFO.

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You do realize Paladin doesn't really mitigate any better than the other two tanks, right? o.o

I mean there's HG, but that's 10 seconds every 7 minutes so...

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Originally Posted by Zojha

Heh. In light of the rumored PvP changes and their supposed desire to enliven that aspect of the game...I find this potentially hilarious.

Either tank damage is a decent amount lower after this change, or they're just shooting themselves in "that" foot.

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For i150 pvp, it should be around a 13% decrease in damage for a 20% increase in hp vs current Str tanks. Tanks will be a bit harder to kill but a bit less deadly than they are currently.

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Originally Posted by Ashkendor

You do realize Paladin doesn't really mitigate any better than the other two tanks, right? o.o

I mean there's HG, but that's 10 seconds every 7 minutes so...

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Oh, I don't mind. I don't really want it to be better but I would love for them to be just as viable. I love the play style of paladin over the other two.

As Tank I'm quite happy I won't have to choose between damage and survival anymore (although I can't avoid parry with STR-Accessoiries anymore *sob*
As Healer I'm quite happy I'll have more time to dps without having to heal the tank as if he'd be a DPS.
As DPS I'm quite happy that the tanks will have an easier time with hate due to increased power with their VIT+STR main gear.

Nice changes I think everyone will benefit from