Results -9 to 0 of 180

Threaded View

  1. #11
    Player
    DRKoftheAzure's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2017
    Location
    Gridania and Ul'dah (because Ishgard not allowed to be starting city-state :c)
    Posts
    1,136
    Character
    Strea Leonhart
    World
    Diabolos
    Main Class
    Gunbreaker Lv 100
    I want enmity management to come back, but at this point I think Dark Knight and Warrior should be the only tanks with enmity combos, even if it is just lip service and the enmity combos are DPS neutral.

    Gunbreaker was clearly not designed with enmity combos and I'm okay with at least 2 tanks not having enmity combos, but I'm also okay with enmity toggles existing for all tanks so long as tanks that are the main tank know how to use Shirk on the off tank in case main tank dies... and therein lies the problem, most tanks don't know how to do that, and instead wait for the off tank to turn on tank stance once the main tank has established enough aggro, which usually means A.) never, B.) until the main tank dies, and by that point all the raisers are dead or C.) both...

    And it's clear that most players don't know how to use Shirk as main tank when in a group with a second tank, and off tanks are afraid of hitting provoke without tank stance out of fear for either A.) cleaving someone(usually an off tank positioning problem but still) or B.)the healers or DPS yell at them for using Provoke(again, usually an off tank positioning problem) and with close friends this not too much of an issue since they're just messing around having fun, but anything outside of that is a recipe for disaster...

    Dark Knight and Warrior can still have Provoke for forced tank swaps, Shirk for enmity dump while main tanking in case off tank doesn't have enmity combo AND forced tank swaps, and tank stance for just main tanking, while having enmity combos that are DPS neutral for off tanking...

    Though my thoughts and opinions on enmity management are more of "It should come back" instead of "I want it to come back" than anything else...

    As for enmity dumps on Diversion coming back on every other role, let's just focus on enmity management for tanks first and then we could maybe start another thread regarding the can of worms that is Diversion and enmity dumps for other roles...
    (1)
    Last edited by DRKoftheAzure; 08-02-2023 at 10:37 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by ArianeEwah View Post
    Making things brain dead doesn't solve problems.