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

[eagledorf]

So you suggest that before a player decides if they want to be a tank, they should level up not just 1 but 2 tanking jobs?

just take it as her suggesting WAR to you because it's very different from PLD. It has a totally different system for mitigation and system of self-healing that involves doing spike damage even while tanking. While most of us who play a PLD are happy with the class, if you're not, maybe WAR is for you? (Well, I kind of doubt it; underneath the "wild" flavor, it's still basically a tank like PLD, but who knows)

Certain fights the boss can do a hell of a lot of damage if he gets loose.

Having tanked virtually everything in the game (never done PS as a tank), I literally cannot think of a boss that will kill your party in the first 2 GCD, though I do admit, it's entirely possible that there is one that I'm forgetting. It kind of makes sense since such a hard hitting opening mechanic would make it too likely that the healers will pull from the tank and be terrible design. The real danger here is if a ranged DPS pulls the boss from you and then decides to run around and keep attacking it instead of coming to you for some reason.

I do know several bosses that will one-shot your entire party if you lose hate in the middle of the encounter. It can be funny, actually.

I'm not interested in going around in circles.

That's probably for the best. /wave