What kind of tank do you want in 4.0?

[Metalwrath]

What about a ranged tank with something like a long chain with a huge ball at the end .Or maybe a long ranged flail ?

[SpookyGhost]

Necromancer tank. You would spawn undead minions to absorb/ mitigate damage.

http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Army_of_the_Dead

[Reynhart]

What about a ranged tank with something like a long chain with a huge ball at the end .Or maybe a long ranged flail ?

I still don't understand why so much people are hyped for this...
No monster will stay at long range, so a ranged tank is pointless.

[ADVSS]

I still don't understand why so much people are hyped for this...
No monster will stay at long range, so a ranged tank is pointless.

I mean there are things like bind, but how it works isnt really very grand for what it does, i could see.... a mirage or clone or some sort of totem being placed that generates enmity, but i dont know how well that would work on a gameplay/balance side? i mean nothings impossible besides what SE dictates as the boundaries like the holy trinity, but unlikely yeah

[Fluffernuff]

I mean there are things like bind, but how it works isnt really very grand for what it does, i could see.... a mirage or clone or some sort of totem being placed that generates enmity, but i dont know how well that would work on a gameplay/balance side? i mean nothings impossible besides what SE dictates as the boundaries like the holy trinity, but unlikely yeah

Mechanically speaking, unless every mob in the game became ranged, there will be no reliable way to keep anything AT ranged. not without horribly ruining group synergy. knockbacks ruin melee dps. Binds have diminishing returns and can be resisted. Kiting, again, ruins melee DPS (and positioning).

The only way a Ranged Tank could mechanically work is if it had the ability to generate as much emnity as the tanks we have-
AND do comparable damage in order to hold that emnity against the other DPS-
AND have enough crowd control to stun lock MULTIPLE mobs over the length of an ENTIRE fight (pulls last what? upwards of 30+ seconds? bosses can take minutes)

all in a single package? meanwhile, since theyre at Range, and the mobs and bosses ARENT, that means (if played well) said tank would have taken 100% less damage than all the melee tanks.

and thats all just a byproduct of making a ranged tank even BE a ranged tank. I for one am against this idea on principle. That is a horribly lop-sided and imbalanced nightmare.

If said tank got only 1 or none of these, then they would fail at being a RANGED tank, and therefore be a failure, and possibly even just statistically worse than the tanks we have.

[Venur]

I really hope we get a mage tank of sorts, all I really want though is that Samurai isn't our next tank. We already have two, two handed heavy bladed weapon tanks do we really need another?

Shoukd be a DPS class and id be happy

[Ciri_Wolf]

Which means ?

An actual tank. Unlike the mess DRK is. Or the pretend tank WAR.

[Alphras]

What would you want specific from an actual Tank?

[Ciri_Wolf]

What would you want specific from an actual Tank?

Probably nothing this game could give because it's too limited in that aspect of gameplay.

[Alphras]

Then you can answer outside of this games boundaries. I am fine with that.