Quote Originally Posted by Mikey_R View Post
One of the issues then becomes, how are the other tanks being handled? You are effectively restricting PLD's access to various mitigations, however, if the other tanks are left as is, they have freer access and so are more versatile. You also cannot put these defensives behind the tanks gauges as they are used offensively and mixing a gauge with offence and defence means you aren't using it for defensive purposes.
Oh absolutely, keeping offense and defense resources separate is a must. They could always add passives to PLD that generates extra oath, like if every divine veil barrier is fully absorbed the oath is refunded. Or if you mitigate X damage with passage it fills the oath gauge. A thought that's come to mind more and more as I play other MMOs is that each tank's tankiness is very loosely defined in 14. Each tank mitigates in largely identical ways. Yeah, paladin doesn't have a huge self barrier like DRK and GNB doesn't have immediate self heals like WAR but other than those, nearly every CD is just a defense bump. It would be an interesting thought experiment to think what would be fitting for each tank were they to all get new defensive kits. DRK could be all about personal barriers and debuffing targets to deal less damage. WAR could lean heavy into the "too angry to die" theme and have a ton of CD's that get more potent the lower your HP is.