[Silly] Horrible Tank Changes

I'm feeling silly, so I thought of an idea. 3.2 has a chance to change the way Tanks work in some manner. People are running about trying to figure out the most plausible way to do this while keeping the meta largely where it is.

I'd like to go the opposite direction. What could SE change to royally piss off the Tank community? Be as evil as possible!

I shall begin.

All

- Job Lock Accessories. Do not change the properties of stats in any way.
- Fending Accessories are restricted from receiving Strength Materia.
- Enmity Combo multipliers reduced to 1.0x -> 3.0x -> 5.0x across the board. Any Tank Stances with multipliers above 2.0x are reduced to 2.0x.
- Positive Enmity Multipliers are disabled when outside of a Tank Stance. This applies as a trait gained at the same time as the Tank Stance. All attacks from outside a Tank Stance will instead produce enmity at a 0.5x multiplier.
- Leaving a Tank Stance reduces enmity in nearby enemies by half.

Warrior

- Switch the potencies of Storm's Path and Butcher's Block.
- Wrath/Abandon abilities cost 30 TP in Defiance and 60 TP in Deliverance.
- Wrath/Abandon abilities break combos.
- Wrath/Abandon is no longer swapped when switching stances.
- The Cooldown of Equilibrium is increased to 90 seconds.

Dark Knight

- The Cooldown for Dark Mind is increased to 120 seconds.
- Delirium's Intelligence Down debuff is moved to Power Slash.
- Plunge can only be used if the user is between 10 and 15 yalms away from the target.

Paladin

- Instead of adding extra auto-attacks, Sword Oath now increases attack speed by 5%.
- Royal Authority now costs 1414 MP to execute.
- Clemency's potency is now calculated from the Healing Magic Potency Stat.

-Paladin Relic is now an actual whiffle ball bat
-Dark Knight Limit Break level 3 is a Samba De Amigo stage
-Warrior does emotional damage only

So you hid a nerf war/drk thread behind an Oh I'm just being silly facade?

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Originally Posted by Einheri

So you hid a nerf war/drk thread behind an Oh I'm just being silly facade?

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Ooh, somebody's been stacking the Cynicism stat! That one's great for massive AOE emnity.

I'll play this game.

All:
- All "Fending" and Esoteric gear for tank jobs now only has Vit and Parry (you need to meld for accuracy).
- Encounters now have high-frequency, high-potency white damage, as well as regular aggro table resets, forcing tanks to build for survival and play for enmity.
- Tank DPS is now a direct function of group DPS, where a tank will never be able to output more than 5% of a group's total damage.
- Except Paladins, who are buffed to 30% of the group's total damage.
- Strength on gear now reduces the effectiveness of your cooldown abilities.
- Crit on gear now also increases the likelihood that you will take critical damage.
- Tanks generate negative enmity and take double damage in their DPS stances.
- Stances cannot be activated while in combat.
- Parry now only reduces damage by 10%, instead of 20%.
- Provoke is now a Gladiator-exclusive skill, so not even PLD can use it.

WAR:
- Deliverance removed. Warriors will now be switched to DRG when they attempt to activate the stance.
- Fel Cleave potency reduced to 2.
- Holmgang now roots your entire party in place with a new trait, "all for one," which also echoes damage received by the tank to all party members.
- Stacks gained from abilities now increase Piety instead of Parry
- Using Inner Beast causes a berserker state where you will only autoattack random targets for the next five minutes, and may cause you to dryhump their leg (even if you've been neutered)
- All Warriors will now be turned into a male Hyur Midlander with the default appearance on equipping the Soulstone.

DRK:
- Darkside visual affect adjusted to be bigger, brighter, and more annoying (so everyone will know when there's a DRK in the group).
- Blood Price no longer usable while Grit is active
- All cooldown abilities locked to Grit. You cannot use your cooldowns without Grit
- Grit cannot be dropped or activated during combat.
- Darkside now has a 15-second cast time
- DA+C&S Effect: no more potency boost. Doubles MP restoration.
- Any ability that costs MP now has a cast time proportionally long to its MP cost.
- There are no changes to the job of you are a Xaela Auri male named Sidurgu, or some variation of "Batman."

PLD:
- Paladins no longer use shields. Must equip 1H swords in both slots. Abilities still rely on block.
- Enmity coefficients reduced to 1x damage done.
- Shield Oath now increases your block rate by 20% natively and allows you to block magic--but also requires a shield.
- Sword Oath autoattack potency reduced to 10.
- Circle of Scorn cooldown increased to 600 seconds. Potency cut in half.
- Flash no longer generates enmity.
- Divine Veil triggers three ready checks for all raid members, one at a time, to be used. All ready checks must be passed before the buff is placed on the PLD, and it will only shield anyone within 5 yalms for 1% of PLD HP.
- Clemency removed (because no one was using it anyway).
- Paladin abilities no longer interrupt enemy attacks.
- Sword Oath now switches your Parry and Mind stats, with the expectation that you will off-heal.
- Spirits Within is now on the global cooldown and resets your combo.

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Originally Posted by Donjo

- Switch the potencies of Storm's Path and Butcher's Block.
- Wrath/Abandon abilities cost 30 TP in Defiance and 60 TP in Deliverance.
- Wrath/Abandon abilities break combos.
- Wrath/Abandon is no longer swapped when switching stances.
- The Cooldown of Equilibrium is increased to 90 seconds.

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Though, tbh, wouldn't mind Equilibrium @ 90s or BB <-> SP.

All they have to do is remove Butcher's Block and WAR is finished.

I envision something like this for warriors:

http://www.gucomics.com/20000828

Shield/Sword Oath, Deliverance/Defiance and Grit/Nogrit now function like Astrologian Sects and cannot be swapped in combat.

Sword Oath, Deliverance and Darkside now come with a -90% enmity modifier to all damage done.

In order to better accommodate those tired of the trinity system, we are removing the Tank class from the game. All remaining classes have had their hit points and durability increased to compensate, and will now have to juggle threat to clear content.

In a future patch, we will also phase out healers.

Warr
- Defiance effect changed all damage is increased 25% and tp cost increased 100%
- unchained remove tp cost penalty
- inner beast hit 600 potency no damage mitigation anymore
- steel cyclone hit 350 potency no enmity generation anymore
- bb will do 350 potency no enmity bonus anymore
- cross class skills changed from gladiator to lancer.

Warrior
Fell Cleave changed to a 60 second CD.
Infuriate only adds 2 stacks.
Butcher's Block changed to 260 potency, with potency based on current HP.
Raw Intuition increases block rate to 100%. WAR still can't equip shields.

Paladin
Royal Authority only accessible after a parry.
Clemency changed to 400 potency and has a MP cost of "all".
Shield Swipe changed to a 70 second CD and potency lowered to 20. Enmity bonus removed.
Hallowed Ground now has a 1HP floor and blocks healing magic for its duration. CD increased to 25 minutes.

Dark Knight
Souleater potency lowered to 300.
Dark Arts MP cost increased to 3536.
Syphon Strike MP recovery lowered to 404MP.
Salted Earth now deals zero damage, only has a 20 potency enmity generation "tick" per pulse. CD increased to 90 seconds.
Reprisal now applies Pacification to bring DRK in line with PLD's Shield Swipe.

"players hit by Warrior fell cleave in PVP under the effect of Berserk will now be automatically logged out of the game, and have all of their items deleted."

"Gaining 5 stacks of abandon/wrath will instantly cause whatever mob is currently being fought to become immune to damage for 30 seconds"

Thats right everyone. Go straight for WAR.

In order to help with inventory space, Warriors and Botanists now share the same main hand. White Mages can now equip Axes and the Strength bonus has been replaced Mind.

There are no longer Swords, Greatswords, and Daggers; it is just blades now. And Ninjas can equip any two at the same time. And the Strength bonus has been replaced with Dexterity. Black Mages can now equip daggers. An Intellegence bonus has been added to daggers as well as Spell Speed or Piety.

Shield Oath, Defiance, and Grit are now always on. Sword Oath, Deliverance, and Darkside have been removed.

There's a new Fury mechanic; everytime the tank has aggro and loses it the enemies damage dealt increases 20% and damage received decreases 5%. If it happens five times, the enemy goes Berserk and starts attacking sporadically.

"pacification now permanently sets appearance to default lalafel female if not esuna'd off within 4 seconds"

make warrior like a drg in dps a healer like a whm give them holy and a tone more mp too based off str and make warriors be able to solo queue 1 man army all dutys.

make drk have 0 hp and perma living dead sort of like pvp zombie builds in other mmos.

make pld basically move like a turtle and do no dps and give zero threat that the other people in the duty decide to just go on without the slug tank and blame the pld for not keeping up and tanking but hey its not the PLDS fault lol.

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Originally Posted by Twilite

Thats right everyone. Go straight for WAR.

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To be completely fair, anything done to nerf Warriors in any way would pretty much piss all of them off, so they're the easiest target for this game. :p

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Originally Posted by Jpec07

To be completely fair, anything done to nerf Warriors in any way would pretty much piss all of them off, so they're the easiest target for this game. :p

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Should've heard PLD's in 2.1~2.55, anything threatening their #1 MT spot and they went off their nut.

Disclaimer: I'm a Warrior main. ;)

WAR
* Vengeance, Raw Intuition, and Berserk no longer generate Wrath/Abandon stacks
* Inner Beast and Fell Cleave now share a 30s cooldown, as do Steel Cyclone and Decimate
* Raw Intuition, instead of automatically parrying all attacks from the front, now grants you +10% chance to parry for every 100 Parry stat you have, to a maximum of 100% chance to parry for the duration at 1000 Parry
* Raw Intuition: Attacks from the flank or rear will now hit for double damage, rather than become critical hits
* Equilibrium: Can only be executed while Infuriated/Uncontrollable. All Wrath/Abandon is lost when used.
* Switching to Deliverance stance from Defiance will remove all self-activated defensive buffs, including Inner Beast
* Switching to Defiance stance from Deliverance will remove all self-activated offensive buffs (Berserk, Internal Release)
* Holmgang can now be used from any distance, and will continue to lock you in place for 6s, but HP not dropping below 1 and the pull/lock on the enemy will only take effect while within 6 yalms of the target

PLD
* Cover only soaks the damage if you are facing the source of the damage while standing in between that enemy and your Cover target
* Parrying the next attack can now pre-empt your Sheltron proc
* The damage reduction on Rampart now scales based on the block strength of your equipped shield, from 10% (lowest) up to a maximum of 20% for high block strength shields (e.g. 550+ block damage)
* The increased block rate on Bulwark now scales based on the block rate of your equipped shield, from 20% (lowest) up to a maximum of 60% for high block rate shields (e.g. 320+ block rate)
* Shield Bash now requires a block immediately before it in order to use, similar to Shield Swipe (remains on the GCD with the same TP cost)
* Hallowed Ground now makes the Paladin immune to most non-magical attacks for 10s (cooldown remains the same)

DRK
* Using Dark Arts now interrupts your combo
* Darkside now has a 3 second interruptible cast time to activate
* Living Dead: Walking Dead effect only lasts the remainder of the Living Dead timer (e.g. if Living Dead has 3s left when Walking Dead activates, then you have 3s of immunity to heal the DRK's full HP)
* Reprisal now requires a dodge to activate, rather than a parry
* Dark Arts now only lasts for 5s, and if the effect expires, your MP drops to 0