What they mean by "change the damage calculations of tanks"?

[DarioSkydragon]

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My goal with this post is:

1) Try to collect opinions on the specific sentence quoted.

2) To offer my opinion on the current tank meta, which I approve.

As you said, we tanks always will do our best to adapt and improve our gameplay, whatever the meta for our job. However, as tank, I do not agree to SE if they want to reduce our DPS to half, only to fending accessories become relevant again.

[Alistaire]

My goal with this post is:

1) Try to collect opinions on the specific sentence quoted.

2) To offer my opinion on the current tank meta, which I approve.

As you said, we tanks always will do our best to adapt and improve our gameplay, whatever the meta for our job. However, as tank, I do not agree to SE if they want to reduce our DPS to half, only to fending accessories become relevant again.

It's a little late to collect opinions on this. With the way it's worded, SE already has what they're doing in mind. That reduces this whole thread to at best, a plea to change their mind, but more likely just conjecture, which we can't really do anything about. Wait till whatever is going to happen happens, then complaints about it will have some potential to be heard.

[Jpec07]

However, as tank, I do not agree to SE if they want to reduce our DPS to half, only to fending accessories become relevant again.

But that's just it--we don't actually have any clue what they're going to do to tank DPS. For all we know, they've just changed a 1x Str-to-Damage modifier to a .9 Str-to-damage modifier. Granted, that wouldn't make sense with the rest of the changes they're trying to accomplish, but I highly doubt they'd slash tank DPS that much (if even at all).

And even if they did normalize tank DPS, the majority of tanks (PLD and DRK) would actually benefit--and WAR would be brought back down to the same level as the rest of us. But we have no indication they're normalizing tank damage. In fact, evidence seems to suggest that they want some disparity there, and that they like having WAR be the one to do high DPS as the "de facto" off tank (see any letter from the developer where people ask about WAR or PLD DPS).

Might they fix tank balance by doing this? Sure. Would they change how classes play and fundamentally alter their flavor? I very highly doubt it.