Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
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Big +1 to this, would give more if I had the chance to.

During my long tenure as a tank main in this game, it always felt to me like the dev team simply wasn't listening to the concerns or complaints for the playerbase, and would often just smash a baseball bat into our knees for no good reason. The fact that Warrior even launched in the absolutely pitiful state it was in at the start of SB was appalling, no matter how fast it got hotfixed or how hard it got buffed afterwards. Their whole design philosophy going into Stormblood seemed to be to directly attack the players that enjoyed maximizing their damage, at the cost of all else.

It feels like, simply put, we're not listened to. Just like Lyth said above, that Q&A was a big hit to my desire to come back and tank in 5.0, since Yoshida seemed to say almost dismissively that tanks are still doing too much damage.... Okay, and? What are you going to do about it? Are you going to give us more mechanics to deal with? Are you going to change the way that tanks play in this game in any meaningful way? Because as the launch of SB proved, if you just gut tank damage and do nothing else to change the role on a deeper level, you have a mass exodus.

Veteran tanks have complained for years that tanking is boring as sin. Are we ever going to get listened to?