What if Tank classes could only meatshield?

[Shyle]

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Rotating CD's and mitigation skills are definitely still in the game. I know stance dancing makes things interesting and challenging, when to use the CD"s at the right time, etc. The rotation for warrior at least is more engaging than the DPS roles I've played to 60 so far since I have to not only do damage rotations, but use mitigation CD's and Self heals at the right moment, all while stance dancing (or at least as close as I can get to Stance dancing). Now, I can't say it's the same for Plds or even DRK, but warriors can have pretty interesting gameplay challenges.

[Duelle]

The rotation for warrior at least is more engaging than the DPS roles I've played to 60 so far since I have to not only do damage rotations, but use mitigation CD's and Self heals at the right moment, all while stance dancing (or at least as close as I can get to Stance dancing). Now, I can't say it's the same for Plds or even DRK, but warriors can have pretty interesting gameplay challenges.

You really should use more objective words to describe WAR gameplay. You call it interesting, I call it "too many buttons to push". Partly why I'm not fond of how WAR plays and prefer PLD. *shrug*

Though if you want to look at it a certain way, the reason WAR's gameplay feels more enganging to you is most likely because keeping Storm's Path up along with Maim and managing Wrath stacks feels more direct (in terms of benefits and what it does for you as a whole) and not "complex for the sake of complexity", which is something you see in DPS jobs at 60. Also helps that you don't have positional requirements to worry about.

[Yorumi]

Rotating CD's and mitigation skills are definitely still in the game. I know stance dancing makes things interesting and challenging, when to use the CD"s at the right time, etc. The rotation for warrior at least is more engaging than the DPS roles I've played to 60 so far since I have to not only do damage rotations, but use mitigation CD's and Self heals at the right moment, all while stance dancing (or at least as close as I can get to Stance dancing). Now, I can't say it's the same for Plds or even DRK, but warriors can have pretty interesting gameplay challenges.

And I made my comments from playing the tanks. War rotates through 3 combos without thought and hits typically the same skill every time they get 5 stacks. You don't have to manage stacks, consider the timing of a recast, adjust the rotation based on procs or the availability of certain resources or even really care about what damage type is incoming. Granted no class is particularly interesting and engaging but tanks really don't have much to think about. Heck most of the time the tank doesn't even need to be concerned with the fight mechanics, they just sit there beating on it. I think it's most indicative of a design flaw that so many are saying they don't care one bit about tanking and just want to dps on their tank.