Quote Originally Posted by Fluffernuff View Post
Skimming over the OP makes it seem like any DPS would be able to fill the Tank roll and give passive buffs to them in order to "try" to actually tank, but not give them any buttons to press to actually tank. bassicly just roiding them up with armor and enmity modifers. Which is exactly what I assumed above.

Though I have to assume something else now. If a DPS is getting no active cooldowns, how are they going to take a hit? a tank buster will still 1-shot them. making this entire idea useless on it's foundation.

If we give the DPS the ability to take a tank buster, we can effectively remove PLD and DRK from the game at that point...


I REALLY wanna be missing something here, because this idea to me is just looking worse....
The Active mitigation tools such as "Rampart" and "Invincible" would be buffs given to the "DPS with tank stance" from the "Tank" who is actually DPSing.

Similar to how a PLD would cover someone else, its this new job covering the pseudo tank.

But this new "DPS with tank stance" would be doing less damage, to do no more dmg than any other tank with tank stance on. (Again, the only issue woudl then be how to keep them alive with CDs, if you want to match tanks who stay out of tank stance, if u set content that way.)