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    Quote Originally Posted by Sqwall View Post
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    Unironically those suggestions usually come from a group of people who either play another role alltogether and think tanks are not busy enough for their liking or/and people who don't engage in Savage/Ultimate content. They want the game to be solely balanced around ex trials and expert dungeons which are indeed a snoozefest for tanks for the most part.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atreides View Post
    Unironically those suggestions usually come from a group of people who either play another role alltogether and think tanks are not busy enough for their liking or/and people who don't engage in Savage/Ultimate content. They want the game to be solely balanced around ex trials and expert dungeons which are indeed a snoozefest for tanks for the most part.
    Give this man/woman, a huge cookie.

    truth has been told.
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    Last edited by Alzinor; 02-12-2022 at 03:02 AM.

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    Sqwall Lionheart
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atreides View Post
    Unironically those suggestions usually come from a group of people who either play another role alltogether and think tanks are not busy enough for their liking or/and people who don't engage in Savage/Ultimate content. They want the game to be solely balanced around ex trials and expert dungeons which are indeed a snoozefest for tanks for the most part.
    I know my FC has struggled to find main/OT's for savage as most tanks have switched to DPS. Their reasoning is that tanks just have way to much responsibilities, and they didn't think it was fun having everyone watching you front and center.

    Those tanks imo, are quite happy with dungeons and EX trials.

    I however FALL ASLEEP in dungeons when I tank. If only dungeons had a hard or extreme mode to keep things interesting.

    EX's can be boring, and some can be insanely good. Seat of Sacrifice comes to mind, I think by far the best one to tank...has to be Hades EX. There is SO MANY mechanics that are tank dependent, and co-tank dependent.

    Savage I found this tier to be VERY main tank/OT dependent specially from a tanking perspective. It's just something special when the OT provokes and I instantly shirk in response thinking "Ok, he want's to be MT now, and he must have a reason....here you go brother!" Then I go immediately in to OT mode and take over that clock position. Switching from Bloodwhetting to Nascent to provide mitigation and heals to him.

    Same goes for when he shirks to me, and I provoke. Then he mentions Hallowed is gone... I nod with understanding and instantly know what he means. Then we swap again. I think we swap maybe 6-7 times in P2S.

    Personally I feel horrible during P3S as it's nearly impossible to keep that boss centered or oriented in a way for the DPS to hit positionals. I'm constantly telling the group sorry for bad pull, or poor positioning with that dumb bird, but nobody in the group berates the Main Tank as they all know the tanks have quite a bit to handle with tethers, adds, and staying alive to boot.

    Maybe it's true. People just don't want the responsibility with tanking and find tanking boring outside of savage/ultimate.

    Savage tanking is anything but boring.
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    Last edited by Sqwall; 02-12-2022 at 03:21 AM.

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    Ainslie Tinley
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sqwall View Post
    I however FALL ASLEEP in dungeons when I tank. If only dungeons had a hard or extreme mode to keep things interesting.
    That's more a problem with dungeons tbh. I actually find tanking or healing in dungeons at least a bit of a "challenge" since depending on the situation the tank or healer might have to compensate for the other, or for the low dps, and adapt, while the dps does the same rotation no matter what, and with 0 threats in dungeons, and that's even more boring.
    If anything a tank might have to do more in a dungeon than in a normal trial and some exes where you don't have to move the boss and the only tank mech is tank bsuters.
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