FRU has been cleared without Tanks!

[Tint]

Seriously tanks, demand your role mechanics back. The state of agro in 14 is hilariously bad

I’d support tanks being sick of being melees with training wheels

Aggro was barely a role mechanic. Well, at least not since level 30 / 40 when you got your tank stance. There was barely any aggro problems when you did 1 or maybe 2 aggro combos and then dropped the stance for the rest of the fight.

The aggro management was done by the DDs and healers, so tanks could avoid using aggro skills. And of course Ninja.


What tanks actually lost is defensive cooldown management, crowd control, keeping debuffs active on the enemy, enemy placement, and a sense of risk reward by tanking without tank stance (which sounds contrary to the role fantasy of tanks, but at least you actually had to press your buttons to survive).

[Supersnow845]

Aggro was barely a role mechanic. Well, at least not since level 30 / 40 when you got your tank stance. There was barely any aggro problems when you did 1 or maybe 2 aggro combos and then dropped the stance for the rest of the fight.

The aggro management was done by the DDs and healers, so tanks could avoid using aggro skills. And of course Ninja.


What tanks actually lost is defensive cooldown management, crowd control, keeping debuffs active on the enemy, enemy placement, and a sense of risk reward by tanking without tank stance (which sounds contrary to the role fantasy of tanks, but at least you actually had to press your buttons to survive).

I’m saying “tanks demand agro back” not as in they lost it in ShB as in “why was agro always a NIN mechanic THEN they lost it entirely”

Tanks deserve actual agro management that isn’t offloaded to the NIN

[Valence]

Aggro was barely a role mechanic. Well, at least not since level 30 / 40 when you got your tank stance. There was barely any aggro problems when you did 1 or maybe 2 aggro combos and then dropped the stance for the rest of the fight.

This was only true because of Shadewalker, which could have been corrected. Meanwhile in casual content it wasn't unusual to have aggro shenanigans happen.