Disciple Of War: New Tank Job Idea: The Hunter

[Sandpark]

This is an idea based off a previous idea for a DoL hunter. It is pet based tank class with a focus on the hunter being a DPS while the pet does all the tanking.





The hunter and pet would have significant interplay supporting each other.



Interceptor starts off fully armed to the teeth. While the hunter starts off mostly human. As the hunter progresses, it gains more and more mechanical or cybernetic enhancements.







The idea is kind of bare-bones right now. But I think the game needs a ranged physical tank. The meta of this job would be the job for people who don't necessarily like playing the tank role. Since the hunter plays mostly as a DPS itself and the pet handles the brunt of tank work.

Thoughts or comment are welcome.

[CaedemSanguis]

No pls juste give me my big hammer

[DPZ2]

Beastmaster Hunter with Tenacity Pet! Great for outdoors. The AI for the pet tanking would be horrid in instances.

They've already nerfed the only pet job that had tanking abilities into the ground. Why would they create another one? It would only tick off Summoners further.

[Sandpark]

I'm a summoner and I am more ticked off about being resigned to 3 summons and sustain going bye bye, but wait... I can glamour them!

At least with a one pet one master class they can make it more broad and unique. As for the AI, they do a pretty good job with Stormblood npcs in MSQ.

[Shurrikhan]

Beastmaster Hunter with Tenacity Pet! Great for outdoors. The AI for the pet tanking would be horrid in instances.

They've already nerfed the only pet job that had tanking abilities into the ground. Why would they create another one? It would only tick off Summoners further.

If they can incidentally screw over other mechanics when adding new ones (e.g. Ten Chi Jin when paired with target movement and auto-facing due to Passage of Arms coding), maybe they can accidentally fix something that's always been horrible with this addition?

On Topic:
This actually looks like a really fun premise. Idk how it'd compare to other ("role") uses of the aesthetics or majority of its toolkit, but as an idea more or less in a vacuum it seems lucrative enough, provided a fitting place for its addition.

That said, also looks like an opportunity to finally fix classes. This has a lot of common ground with MCH, unless I'm somehow reading all of this wrong.

[Squintina]

Why not just have them fix summoner tank pet, or make a new summoner tank pet, and then provide a way to let Summoners choose to tank? Wouldn't that be essentially the same thing?

[Vallamaria]

So... basically you're essentially suggesting a "Beastmaster" that uses guns or cannons instead of a whip and a robotic pet instead of an organic one. Since it's pretty much almost the same as the ideas people have had for a Beastmaster Tank.

Well in any case, given how SE has handled the AI for Summoner's pet I don't exactly have any faith in their ability to make a Tank that relies on a pet. That and they would be sure to give us next to no customization with it sadly. Given it took them forever just to give us Carbuncle Egi glamours.

[Tufelhunden]

Sure as long as it gets crappy dps.

[Soraki-Muppe]

I say no to new jobs overall until SE learn to balance what they got.

[aqskerorokero]

It already in the game,it's called titan egi....