Tank Stance Redesign

[shao32]

DRK does not need to be the lifesteal tank. That role should go to WAR, mostly to make up for their lack of mitigation on their tank stance. It fits a berserker archetype better regardless, which is what WAR is. Bloodbath originally belonged to them for a reason.

defiance offer the same effective HP that Grit and shield, there is no lack of mitigation on defiance, the only relative weakness of the stance is that you dont get the HP when you acivate it but you have equilibrium to make that flaw meaningless, right now if a WAR was forced to stay on defiance it will be the most sturdier tank thanks to defiance and constant extra 20%mitigation and selfheals of inner beast.

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defiance offer the same effective HP that Grit and shield, there is no lack of mitigation on defiance, the only relative weakness of the stance is that you dont get the HP when you acivate it but you have equilibrium to make that flaw meaningless, right now if a WAR was forced to stay on defiance it will be the most sturdier tank thanks to defiance and constant extra 20%mitigation and selfheals of inner beast.

Defiance is the worst stance because you receive less healing from almost every source of healing. Spells like Cure are slightly less effective because it's a 20% healing buff and not 25%. Abilities like Tetra, Assize, Essential Dignity, Collective Unconcious, Excog and Whispering Dawn are all significantly less effective on a WAR because they don't get buffed by Defiance at all. The only sources of healing that aren't weaker are Benediction and Benison because they're percentage based. Even though a tankbuster will hit a WAR in Defiance and a PLD in Shield Oath for the same percentage of their HP, it takes more to heal the WAR afterwards. That's becoming a bigger problem as each expansion adds more and more abilities instead of spells.