Letter from the Producer LIVE Part LI Shadowbringers Preview - 1:30pm PDT/4:30pm EDT

[Reimmi]

"Healers will be throughly rebalanced to emphasize a pure healing role"

Well that isn't going to sit well with some people lol...

it'll be fine if damage is more constant than it is now

[Khalithar]

So it's confirmed in the live letter today.

Offensive stance is gone. Tank stance penalties are gone and toggling tank stance is solely for generating aggro and nothing else.

That means you can stay in tank stance the whole time if you're main tanking with no penalty and nothing to worry about. No obnoxious stance dancing, no wasted gcd's swapping stances as pld or drk (if you turn on grit), and no more stupid arbitrary damage penalty. I'm ecstatic, I wanted tank stances gone entirely, but I'll take this as it's nearly as good. I'm VERY satisfied with this as it's something I've basically wanted forever.

[griffinborn]

Mobile White Mage? Am I hearing this correctly?!

[Iromi]

Mobile White Mage? Am I hearing this correctly?!

I hope so. I miss moving and casting from 1.x That would be cool to see it back!

[Kyuuen]

Oh. I thought someone mentioned that NIN got brought up? Very well then. Thanks.

And no more Protect? Yeah or Nah?

I did. From the video they showed it seems Kassatsu will have; in the least, two charges giving you the possibility to use your Ninjutsu three times in a row if you wanted. But outside of that it really hasn't been covered.

[ElazulHP]

So it's confirmed in the live letter today.

Offensive stance is gone. Tank stance penalties are gone and toggling tank stance is solely for generating aggro and nothing else.

That means you can stay in tank stance the whole time if you're main tanking with no penalty and nothing to worry about. No obnoxious stance dancing, no wasted gcd's swapping stances as pld or drk (if you turn on grit), and no more stupid arbitrary damage penalty. I'm ecstatic, I wanted tank stances gone entirely, but I'll take this as it's nearly as good. I'm VERY satisfied with this as it's something I've basically wanted forever.

Yeah, i'm really digging those tank changes going forward. Solidifies my decision to stay tank when the expansion rolls out.

[Zumi]

Glad they changed tank stances. The whole you must tank in dps stance because you lose dps if you use tank stance in the current game didn't feel that great.

[Vahlnir]

Glad they changed tank stances. The whole you must tank in dps stance because you lose dps if you use tank stance in the current game didn't feel that great.

This makes me feel slightly better switching from being a dps main to tank. I can kinda have my cake and eat it too.

[Berret_Snow]

Watching full screen, the chat of people screaming for Male Viera is getting very annoying.

[griffinborn]

Jesus Christ, the MCH AF is literally Ashe from Overwatch. SE has been doing some research.