@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a DPS class!!!

[Enur]

Does it outweigh the potential negative effects as you then alienate your dedicated tank player population and make them choose between gearing most of their tanks or a separate one?

I fail to see how it would alienate the existing tanking community by creating an option for a fourth alternative tank, without changing the existing tanks. Expecting all future tank jobs to be suited for Fending, just so they can gear them faster is just ridicolous. How about the fifth tank i ask, should it also be Fending? Instead of adding new blood to the tanking scene you wish to spread the existing players over even more jobs?

Then there's also issues such as competing for loot in certain content. Some people tank the 24man raids because they know they won't have to compete for gear rolls.

Tanking only for exclusive loot is an odd point in itself. Would you not tank because you like being in charge? Do you really need a carrot on a stick to keep going? I like my odd evening taking charge of the 24 mans, tanking them. Do i need even more incentive? no. i dont. currently tanks are more than priviledged with tank bonus, mount, titles achievements, instant queues, commendations (these seem to hit me on auto as long as no dps or healer stood out)
You also want free reign on gear?

Once you start thinking about implementing tanks that don't share this common armor type, you run into issues where tank players have to then decide which tank they want to actually gear, stay with the 3 old ones, or only gear that single one.

Do you never draw the line then? Do all future tanks have to be of "Fending" just so that the existing tanks dont have to do more work? Like all the melee dps do right now?



I think it is quite an entitled opinion to hold, that just because a new tank is added, they should have immediate access to all tanks, with the same gear.