Reevaluation to Tanks Stances and Related Abilities

[pandabearcat]

Hmm I wonder how WoW does it oh right vengeance (is it resolve now?) and taunt giving threat bonus for 10 seconds.

Stances are silly and promote "untanklike" behavior.

Pretty much the only thing going in a tanks head is the healer good enough? Cool imma stay in dps stance.

I would much rather the choice for mitigation vs damage come from our abilities themselves rather than silly stances.

Alternatively, all stances ogcd on no wait the warriors are gonna jump on this one its what makes them a special snowflake waaahhhhhhhhh.

[RapBreon]

Hmm I wonder how WoW does it oh right vengeance (is it resolve now?) and taunt giving threat bonus for 10 seconds.

Stances are silly and promote "untanklike" behavior.

Pretty much the only thing going in a tanks head is the healer good enough? Cool imma stay in dps stance.

I would much rather the choice for mitigation vs damage come from our abilities themselves rather than silly stances.

Alternatively, all stances ogcd on no wait the warriors are gonna jump on this one its what makes them a special snowflake waaahhhhhhhhh.

I disagree! And that is all I can muster right now.

But seriously current WoW is aids, plz no.

[Phoenicia]

Hmm I wonder how WoW does it oh right vengeance (is it resolve now?) and taunt giving threat bonus for 10 seconds.

Stances are silly and promote "untanklike" behavior.

But even in WoW tanks had stances, Warrior had defensive stance, Pally had Divine Fervor or w/e, Druid had to be in bear form and DK needed to be in Frost Rune or whatever.

Stances simplify the need of separating Main-tank and Off-tank roles. Tanking? Turn on tank stance, pretending to be DPS/OT? Turn it off. What this game needs to fix this "silliness" and "untanklike behavior" problem is to make encounters require tank stances. Up the damage of auto attacks to a level where regen doesn't tick higher than the raid boss's auto-attack.

Stances going oGCD for non-WAR tanks is fine if WAR gets healed 25% of its current health when swapping as well. That would make them balanced.

[Launched]

Alternatively, all stances ogcd on no wait the warriors are gonna jump on this one its what makes them a special snowflake waaahhhhhhhhh.

Yeah, exactly. It's something that makes WAR's tank stance DIFFERENT from the other two, not better or worse. You can have off gcd stances as soon as the increased healing on Defiance is increased to 25%, it affects abilities, and heals WAR for 25% of its current hp. Those are areas that Defiance/Grit are better in, and changing them to off gcd would make them objectively better in every way.

[Asierid]

Stances are silly and promote "untanklike" behavior.

But I'm tanking it; not the healer or DPS. That's pretty "tanklike".

How about we just keep the choice to utilize cooldowns while in DPS stance so the change isn't even a numerical difference and the healers learn to not blame their mistakes on a DPS stance.

Course, this may be asking for a bit much around here.