New Prelim Tank updates

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

@szy -
I saw a reddit post indicating this in a translated piece. I didn't see it within the official notes, so please post if you find it. It's not that I don't trust reddit..... but.....

Personally, I find it rather annoying that the majority of those who complained about tank dps were, for the most part, bad at their job. I have never beaten a good Bard or Machinist as a DRK or PLD. (Depending on the fight WAR is usually neck and neck). I have beaten plenty of bad ones though.

[Galgarion]

@szy -
I saw a reddit post indicating this in a translated piece. I didn't see it within the official notes, so please post if you find it. It's not that I don't trust reddit..... but.....

Personally, I find it rather annoying that the majority of those who complained about tank dps were, for the most part, bad at their job. I have never beaten a good Bard or Machinist as a DRK or PLD. (Depending on the fight WAR is usually neck and neck). I have beaten plenty of bad ones though.

The whole thing is a bottleneck designed to keep their new raids relevant for a longer period of time. Tanks in full 220 with the current meta would have trashed the new content. It would have been savage, but not in the way they imagine.

Raid: Wow, you're cute. Let me look at you. Wow. This your first time shooting a video, sweetie? How old are you?

New Content: I'm 18. Yeah, this is my first time. Ha! I mean, not my first time, but you know. Ha.

Raid: Cool, cool. You ever work with a strength tank before? Can you handle it? They get pretty rough. They looooove new content though.

New Content: Ha, yeah, I've heard of them. Yeah, I'm not scared though. Ha.

Raid: They're gonna push that dps. They're really gonna push it hard, I hope you're ready, sweetie. Okay, here they come!

(Jacked up Warrior and Paladin enters the scene. Stuff happens)

(New content shoots two more videos, then retires.)

[Kenji1134]

Raid: Wow, you're cute. Let me look at you. Wow. This your first time shooting a video, sweetie? How old are you?

New Content: I'm 18. Yeah, this is my first time. Ha! I mean, not my first time, but you know. Ha.

Raid: Cool, cool. You ever work with a strength tank before? Can you handle it? They get pretty rough. They looooove new content though.

New Content: Ha, yeah, I've heard of them. Yeah, I'm not scared though. Ha.

Raid: They're gonna push that dps. They're really gonna push it hard, I hope you're ready, sweetie. Okay, here they come!

(Jacked up Warrior and Paladin enters the scene. Stuff happens)

(New content shoots two more videos, then retires.)

Sir... this... is amazing.
I applaud you good sir, I truly do.

[Grey_D94]

Snip.

Okay, no. Let's not go through that analogy, yes? Brain bleach dispensers for everyone!

Now, back on track, WAR brings extra offense as an OT. PLD brings extra defense (potentially party-wide) when they do it and will have better attack power to their skills, even possibly being able to hold aggro on their RA combo.

DRK is clearly aimed towards MT'ing, what with its skills restoring MP and implementing a magic resistance debuff while they take damage. Their OT'ing seems a bit off to many, and for good reason! Continue.

[Brannigan]

I don't understand why these changes took so long to tune. There's nothing that dramatic about any of it and it's all stuff they could have just thrown out there in 3.1 to see if it worked. Oh well. At least Clemency has a reasonable cast time now.

[Bashum]

Awesome, glad I can finally dust off my Paladin from time to time and not feel totally gymped for playing him.

I wonder if Divine Veil triggers from the self heal component of clemency when you target another player? or only if you target yourself directly?

[SpookyGhost]

You sure you wanted to be a PLD in the first place if you're willing to give it up just because it might be flavor of the month?

[Violette]

You sure you wanted to be a PLD in the first place if you're willing to give it up just because it might be flavor of the month?

Like all the ninja mains who went dark knight?

[Galgarion]

Like all the ninja mains who went dark knight?

It was nice. Sped up duty finder queues for dps. We should give those guys flowers.

[Zadocfish]

If more people in dungeons are going tank, won't that mean that wait times for the other classes won't be as garbage? That's cool.