New tanking abilities in the expansion thread!

[Puresin]

Traits:

56 Enhanced Storm's path
Debuff duration increased to 30 seconds
(makes room for the new fracture combo in the rotation)

52 Enhanced Fracture II
Combo Action: Skull Sunder
Combo Potency: 240
Additional Effect - grants a Wrath stack
Additional Effect - Increased Emnity
(dot component remains the same, 4th combo to replace some BB filler)

New Job Trait: (I don't think warrior will get new job skills due to the way defiance works)

55 Improved Steel Cyclone
Steel Cyclone now costs 3 stacks of Wrath
(instead of consuming all 5)

60 Anger Management
Wrath now stacks up to 7 stacks
(still grants 2% critical hit chance per stack)

New Class skills:

54 Charge
40 second cooldown, 30y range (off GCD)
Instantly charges to the selected enemy target if the target is outside of meelee range
Additional Effect - grants highest threat on the target
(provoke for warriors with much needed/desired built-in gap closer)

58 Counter
15 second cooldown
Delivers an attack with 210 potency (off GCD)
Can only be used after parrying an attack
Additional Effect - Increased Emnity
Additional Effect - grants a Wrath stack
(makes parry a worthwhile stat now)

60 Mighty Strikes
90 second cooldown, 15 second duration (off GCD)
Autattack speed is doubled and Critical hits do an addional 50% damage
Additional Effect - each critical hit perfomed while under this buff restores 50 TP, you cannot regenerate more than 50 TP per second
(TP regeneration for warrior & moderate DPS cooldown, limited to 50 TP per second so it is no gamebreaking with the Overpower skill)


To be honest there isn't much that needed to be added to the warrior toolkit to make the job play more smoothly.

Yoshi and his team did such a great job on their first adjustment to warrior that there is not much room for improvement.

[Seif]

I'd like to see Storm's eye become useful and maybe even new more complex combos. I don't meant longer combos but combo effects that would vary depending on the order of the combo. It would give more depth to combat.

[Reynhart]

A trait that lowers the recast on Hallowed to 5min (or just do this in general)

A trait for PLD that when in ShO, when you block an enemy's attack that enemy takes some damage.

New Job Trait: (I don't think warrior will get new job skills due to the way defiance works)

Jobs...don't...have...traits

Something puzzles me...the topic is called "New tanking abilities in expanstion", yet a lot of post here talk about how they want old abilities to be changed.

[SpookyGhost]

54 Charge
40 second cooldown, 30y range (off GCD)
Instantly charges to the selected enemy target if the target is outside of meelee range

This is all I ask for, Yoshi-P.

I'd like to see Storm's eye become useful[...]

Storm's Eye is already your most useful combo. o_o

[Zykor]

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i lol'd

/10char

[Domira]

Tanks need a Gap closer....Chasing around adds and then running back is a DPS killer. ex would be T13 phase 2 dragons, you can't OT near Bahamut so there is always a large Gap once the add is down. It could also be useful for opening combos instead of loltomalob or moving out of AoE.

Paladin should get a skill that pulls the target to the player. Warrior should get charge.

[Brannigan]

Paladin should get a skill that pulls the target to the player. Warrior should get charge.

Reverse that. Warriors already have a chain to pull shit with and paladins have a shield

[Jandor]

Jobs...don't...have...traits.

Yeah, and all jobs require base classes at the moment. Things change *shrug*

It's just a wishful thinking thread, lighten up.

[Feylie]

New traits that affect current abilities will not make tanking more fun. It may seem exciting now, because it would affect current content. But once we get new shiny toys to play with it'd be an afterthought.

[Marxam]

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This guy gets it. ^

I just hope they do something about holmgang for warriors. Like add a trait that makes it slightly longer and any IB used during its effect will heal you for 300% (similar to how it was in 2.0) so I don't have to sit there and hope the healers can lustrate/bene me back from the brink of death. I would also love a "rush" move similar to shoulder tackle, off gcd. It would be great for openers and save us the trouble of chasing those pesky adds off range who just dont want to sit still and run around the map. Increasing wrath stacks to 10 would be nice but I doubt it.

Here is the original skill Rampage as it was in 1.0. It might have to be changed a bit to suit FFXIV:HW but with parry being a relatively "useless" passive any thing that increases the parry rate is welcomed for warriors and the increased attack speed would be nice. I might remove the heal on crit just to balance it out so wars aren't a drk with an axe.

For PLD's I would love a skill like Cover but for magic attack only. Macro the two together and use HG and you basically can protect one other player from all damage. Also a battle raise would be much appreciated. You can even bar it to skill, that when used allows for increased heal potency/battle raise of any curing magic you use.

They really need to give it something that changes up the 1-2-3 combo because I only have time for two tanks with WAR still my fave due to overall difficulty and fun of playing and DRK which will replace the PLD. All I know is that, assuming they follow the same pattern as 2.0 (class gets one skill every two levels with 5 skill/traits total and job gets one skill per five levels with 2-3 skills total) that we will have up to 7+ new skills on our way to 60 for current jobs.