Tank nerf coming?

[FallenWings]

It's quite disgusting to see how people quickly turn on eachother and segregate people into "STR Tanks." Going as far as calling said people who choose to optimize their play as "not real tanks."

I absolutely find it insulting that people dare demonize us in such a way when all we tried to do was help complete a fight using our understanding of our class to reach maximum efficiency. I don't even understand why we have to get so butt-hurt over the idea that someone is contributing close to us. As if someone else contributing to a respectable level to us is a bad thing. This is truly a selfish mindset.

At the end of the day it won't change how a tank plays their class (Maximum potential: Hold Aggro, Reduce Damage, Deal Damage) as opposed to the absolute bare minimum (Hold Aggro) that the community perceives as the appropriate or 'normal' way to play and should be the standard.

"Hey someone is doing better than me! It's much easier if they got nerfed rather than me having to go out of my way to improve!"

Being nerfed in any shape or form will make you feel bad no matter how you look at it. Regardless, I'll still be playing WARRIOR. Not some sub-standard meat bag that people like to lump the Tank Role as.

On a more optimistic note: The change has more pros than cons and should be welcomed as such. People will stop letting fending accessories drop(for some god-forsaken reason) and the quality of a player will mostly be returned to his skill rather than the choice of his gear. A more than worthy trade-off if it helps stave off this delusional mindset.

[Darkside302]

Argh once again another thread using "tanks" and lumping all 3 of them together. Only WAR does too much damage and needs nerfing. PLD are the weakest thing in the game which is fine...working as intended (you're a tank after all not a dps). Can we change the word "tank" to "WAR" in this thread and you'll be fine.

[SpookyGhost]

Argh once again another thread using "tanks" and lumping all 3 of them together. Only WAR does too much damage and needs nerfing. PLD are the weakest thing in the game which is fine...working as intended (you're a tank after all not a dps). Can we change the word "tank" to "WAR" in this thread and you'll be fine.

*DRK hides in dark, secluded corner of the room so people don't notice it's equal damage to WAR*

[Ciri_Wolf]

Never understood the point with people who only tank for numbers. I tank because I like pulling enemies and being the focus. And because war and drk look awesome swinging weapons.

[Valkyrie-Amber]

fending tanks atm can not hold agro and str can mostly but suddenly if the new fending = dps dishes out lower dps and emity modifier isent incresed alot we will have many dps haveing to tank for the tanks.

tanks will be like throttle your damage to good dps then suddenly wipe dps is not dpsing enougth please look foward to it.

[Arrius]

fending tanks atm can not hold agro and str can mostly but suddenly if the new fending = dps dishes out lower dps and emity modifier isent incresed alot we will have many dps haveing to tank for the tanks.

tanks will be like throttle your damage to good dps then suddenly wipe dps is not dpsing enougth please look foward to it.

What nonsense. Equally geared and skilled tanks will never lose their enemies to DPS. Unless you're the kind of person who unloads their chain while the tank still rounds up the mobs.

Seen enough monks instantly use shoulder tackle on trash the moment I lobbed the shield (not necessarily tackling the one that was lobbed, mind you) because they couldn't wait until I was done grabbing the other groups.

[Ragnorak]

Read the rest of the paragraph.. Stop going ibto panic mode off a sentence

[Reynhart]

Or, you can think of it like this.
Tanks will specialize in VIT starting from 3.2, so they'll have bigger HP pools, allowing them to stay longer out of tank stance (Since they're also making adjustement to make stance dancing smoother for all tanks), avoiding the damage penalty, and thus doing more (and more consistent) DPS than current STR tanks.

The new damage formula will bring lower numbers, but the context will surely even it out.

[Mycow8me]

Bard and mch damage is a completely seperate issue that could be reworked. Ultimately i remember yoshida or some dev saying that since they were a mobile ranged dps, they can keep dpsing in situations that a melee could not due to movement thus their overall output was lowered a bit. You all should make your own thread.

Some tanks threatening to quit is ridiculous, so is this whole dps arguement, my opinions unchanged. Im still going to give it a chance and see how it goes. Pld is the ultimate mitigator, thus its output is lower. Even yoshida stated this. However war and drk have decent dps for good off tank potential. When you take that away, you end up with the old 2.0 threads saying everyones just taking 2 paladins.

Look, at the end of the day bosses die from a teamed effort of dps. Whenever something gets nerfed, you lower your options and chances. Only thing i see here though is people worried about their damage in comparison to justify this nerf. I think its great for people who only use fending to see some damage improvements. I just hope the people preparing to switch back to fending dont suffer much of a loss. Im still curious how this will affect melded jewelry though since you can increase vit and str together higher than you could just 1 by itself on jewelry.