Tank Balance

[Reynhart]

Swapping str and vit.... U serious?

Well, if you're the OT and VIT doesn't change your HP pool anymore...yeah, I'd be serious about it.


Another crazy idea...YES, I'm bored at work

What if tanks mitigates by accumulating a "Barrier" ?

Nowadays, mitigation is, mostly, a passive thing. Pop you CD, wait for the blast...even WAR has it a little.
BUT, like DPS constantly attacking to build greater DPS and healers constantly healing to build greater HPS, tanks could constantly use skills to build greater BPS (Barrier Per Second).

The barrier would work like Stoneskin or Addlo, meaning that, as long as you have that barrier, you won't take any damage. This way, tanks could have skills with potencies, even combo, that would give them higher and higher barrier numbers. Rampart, Sentinel, Vengeance...all those skills would work like Flight of Fight or Internal Release by increasing your numbers for a short period of time, adding more chance for them to crit, etc...

With a system like that, tanks would have a rotation to master to accumulate the highest BPS, and harder content could throw higher and higher damage against your barrier meaning you'd really have to master your skills to reduce/prevent your HP from dropping as long as you can.