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

[Limecat]

Oh sure there should be, DPS and healing. Maybe the easier solution would be to remove the need for tanks entirely? Let everyone get beat on a little and have various flavors of one-shot high mitigation abilities so whoever's the current pinata can soak the big damage attack that's charging?

[Saccharin]

Oh sure there should be, DPS and healing. Maybe the easier solution would be to remove the need for tanks entirely? Let everyone get beat on a little and have various flavors of one-shot high mitigation abilities so whoever's the current pinata can soak the big damage attack that's charging?

No trinity spoiled GW2 for me. You have to balance every fight so there's no dedicated healer or tank.

[Sigred]

No trinity spoiled GW2 for me. You have to balance every fight so there's no dedicated healer or tank.

Exactly. GW2 exemplifies why there must be, at the very least, the three basic roles. I will say again to those who cannot see why this is a core concept; this is not the genre of games you should be playing.