SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[Ciri_Wolf]

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In all fairness, this is an MMO. It's all just numbers. You could easily tweak a character's numbers so that their natural defense is enough to tank without fending gear. Literally the only thing tank stance does is give you damage reduction and aggro. Tanks are only tanky because of this and their vitality. Their gear has almost very little effect on their actual ability to take damage. Take Grit off a DRK and watch them drop just as fast as any healer in the game that stands in AOE.

[Khalithar]

In all fairness, this is an MMO.It's all just numbers. You could easily tweak a character's numbers so that their natural defense is enough to tank without fending gear. Literally the only thing tank stance does is give you damage reduction and aggro. Tanks are only tanky because of this and their vitality. Their gear has almost very little effect on their actual ability to take damage. Take Grit off a DRK and watch them drop just as fast as any healer in the game that stands in AOE.

This is an excellent point and bears repeating to anyone that claims a class "can't be a tank because they don't wear heavy armor."

I'm also going to repeat my point from earlier that people keep ignoring because it bears repeating as well:

Sam was originally intended to be the tank job for HW right? The way I interpret that, is that they were already working on and designing samurai tank but at some stage in it's development they stopped and said "let's do dark knight instead." I really don't think that means the samurai tank idea as a whole got scrapped, merely pushed back. I strongly believe they are going to finish it from whatever stage of development it was at and give us the version of the tank they envisioned for HW originally before drk.