Thread: Idea for 4.0 Tank Class

I think RDM could be pretty interesting with BLM-like and WHM-like stuff and adding a sword. Maybe two? Maybe some other kind of weapon all together since swords are kinda covered in PLD/DRK/NIN/SAM.

From BLM you draw your main combat stuff like Umbral Ice and Astral Fire as En-spell type stuff, which could be defensive and offensive stances, some lightning elemental damage stuff. Then WHM offers some self-heal kind of things and damage mitigation.
Where DRK cribs the Paladin with Shadown Skin/wall (Rampart/Sentinel) - cooldown-based big mitigation, the RDM would crib WAR with maybe one push button Vengeance equivalent and then something that works from charges built up like Inner Beast. A type of stoneskin thing would be similar to Thrill of Battle.
That's just the basics, so that it behaves within the current game. After that you've got some mana usage in DPS and maybe some kind of cyclical stance thing.

As a weird thing though,you'd probably not get to cross class WHM or BLM, they don't really give much useful anyway.

I would say German Tank would be best bro, world war 2 era bro! Forest Green bro!

Originally Posted by Typhoria

Viking anyone? Hammer user that gave a blunt debuff, so it would benefit monks.

Originally Posted by AlexiIvaniskavich

A hammer or mace class would make a lot of sense and it would bring in a new weapon type presently not existent in the game.

I guess it could open them up to do more bootshine if the raid didn't need int down. It would have to be like drk where it wouldn't overwrite dragon kick, tho.

I was looking at the old classes and I always really liked the "mystic knight" type that could power up their sword skills with magic. Since we already have swords, this weapon might be a viable way to also introduce it as a sort of magic-enhancing mace/hammer wielder. I guess dark knight is close in this regard given dark arts usage, but they could differentiate them such as like "Flame Hammer" could be a buff that increases damage by inflicting "burn" status on target after completing an aggro/dps combo, "Frost Hammer" could apply a damage down type debuff, poison mace for an extra dot, lightning mace for a guaranteed critical hit, etc, etc. There is a lot of flexibility I think and to me at least something like that would be fun/different. IDK, maybe it would seem too much like drk for others, it would have to be a lil like drk for the mp-sustain but I think if the effects are different and versatile and useful enough it could be fun.