How to make tanks more fun to play (devs please read)

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I hate to say this, but a LOT of Paladin i know simply stopped playing the job after they (unjustly) gave Warrior a near-godlike buff when a slight correction would have been sufficient and gave Paladin nothing except a poop-smeared middle finger.

There's your problem why you have so few tanks now. SE made half of them stop playing.

And those tanks are just... bad. And hurt. Funny thing is, PLD is still a better tank by a slight margin....

[eagledorf]

And those tanks are just... bad. And hurt. Funny thing is, PLD is still a better tank by a slight margin....

Indeed, PLD has just as much potential to be crazy overpowered as they did pre 2.1. They gave WAR unreasonable buffs so that they're both about equally overpowered now (just different).

Anybody who thinks the WAR buffs gave PLD the middle finger has never done t2-4 through party finder where some people will only take Paladins. If I make a party finder myself for these turns and allow WAR, the tank slot(s) fill(s) almost instantly.

Simple way to look at the math for Halone is that combo Halone is as much hate as three not-combo Halone. That means that all the hate generated by Fast Blade and Savage Blade in your first two GCD are extra hate you did not get by spamming Halone.