What should be the next tank job

[Ekimmak]

I don't think I want another tank. At the moment, there's a lot of bitterness because we have three types of tank, but only two tankslots in Savage.

You'd think that would mean just 1/3 of the tanks would be unhappy, but no, the only people who are (mostly) happy with how they are? Paladins.

I'd rather they balance out the current tanks before adding new ones. I think the same thing is happening on the healer forums.

[Shippuu]

I don't think I want another tank. At the moment, there's a lot of bitterness because we have three types of tank, but only two tankslots in Savage.

You'd think that would mean just 1/3 of the tanks would be unhappy, but no, the only people who are (mostly) happy with how they are? Paladins.

I'd rather they balance out the current tanks before adding new ones. I think the same thing is happening on the healer forums.

There being balance within a role should never dictate whether a new job can be created for that role. The jobs will never be perfectly balanced and any balance that is achieved will only be fleeting. One needs only look at the current tank situation to realize that. Every expansion will simply unbalance whatever balance was made before due to the increase in level and new abilities or simply bad decisions on the devs part.

As such, it is an unacceptable excuse to use to delay or prevent a new job from being added to these roles. Period.

[Claire_Pendragon]

I don't think I want another tank. At the moment, there's a lot of bitterness because we have three types of tank, but only two tankslots in Savage.

You'd think that would mean just 1/3 of the tanks would be unhappy, but no, the only people who are (mostly) happy with how they are? Paladins.

I'd rather they balance out the current tanks before adding new ones. I think the same thing is happening on the healer forums.

There being balance within a role should never dictate whether a new job can be created for that role. The jobs will never be perfectly balanced and any balance that is achieved will only be fleeting. One needs only look at the current tank situation to realize that. Every expansion will simply unbalance whatever balance was made before due to the increase in level and new abilities or simply bad decisions on the devs part.

As such, it is an unacceptable excuse to use to delay or prevent a new job from being added to these roles. Period.

There is ALWAYS a DPS who is OP/above the rest.
There is ALWAYS a DPS who is the worst, and at the bottom.
So long as 8 of them are roughly ok, the top 2 or bottom 2 arent as big of a deal.
But when there is only 3 DPS, then everyone would be flipping their tops.

Throw in 8 more tanks, and we'd see the same reaction to tanks, as we see towards DPS.

[Shippuu]

There is ALWAYS a DPS who is the worst, and at the bottom.

And there will always be a tank and Healer that are the worst and at the bottom. The overall number of jobs in the role matter little and should still never be used as an excuse to exclude the notion of adding fresh new jobs to those roles.

Those roles make up vital positions in a tightly trinity based game and the not insignificant % of players who play those roles (close to 50%) deserve variety and shiny new jobs as well.

No other mmo has used role job balance as an excuse to not create certain role jobs. Even WoW has consistently added new tank jobs despite its constant absolutely horrendous class balance at all times.

[mosaicex]

I don't think I want another tank. At the moment, there's a lot of bitterness because we have three types of tank, but only two tankslots in Savage.

You'd think that would mean just 1/3 of the tanks would be unhappy, but no, the only people who are (mostly) happy with how they are? Paladins.

I'd rather they balance out the current tanks before adding new ones. I think the same thing is happening on the healer forums.

And there are 9 dps jobs but only 4 dps slots

If you think one tank has it bad then I would like to point you to MCH, SMN, BLM, DRG and MNK.



But hey, DPS balance was never a consideration when adding new jobs, was it?