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    Advent Shadowsoul
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    Zalera
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    Dark Knight Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
    Fine, let me present this is a different way.

    One tank, say... Paladin, doesn’t put out as much damage as Dark Knight, by default. (Instead of saying it has a trait that decreases damage, let’s just say it has lower potencies to its skills)
    This Paladin, then uses the cooldown-ability Sword Oath, to boost its DPS for a burst phase. With this burst factored in, its overall DPS is back on par with DRK.

    Then, look at Dark Knight. Darkside becomes a trait, pretty much as it is now. But Grit becomes a cooldown-ability that boosts defence for a period of time and alters the effects of a few abilities, such as Plunge, which under Grit has an enmity boost and lower potency. A similar effect could be applied to perhaps Hard Slash and Abyssal Drain or something.

    There is nothing in there that says “decreases damage”, except for perhaps those couple DRK abilities but that can be accepted as the quirk of that jobs mechanics.
    This is functionally identical to the system I just described.
    I dont like the "well its their quirk" part, BUT

    Wouldnt the best solution, to lower button bloat be to boost enmity as ab added effect of cooldowns like rampart, etc.
    You gotta remember high preformance tanking and dancing, sure. Some dont drop stance back and forth especially novice, But if "youre gonna do a big pullll" at least have the defensives that are there aid in doing so. That would alleviate a lot of stress on novice healers as well.
    Also rampart/etc doesnt reduce damage potential, why should a just their quirk to hold hate even be acceptable?
    Edit: On second thought, even this is a bad idea considering how cd are saved for tank busters, Maybe have then just an enmity cooldown, I still dont get why tanks arent allowed to deal damage, but ok.
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    Last edited by ADVSS; 05-22-2019 at 11:50 PM.