Tanks and Feast

[itsoni]

A good WAR has much more solo carry potential than any other tank - and that's where I think the problem is. It's not that the WAR is too strong, it's just the other tanks are niche.

Nothing needs to be dumbed down at all. In fact, its the other tanks that need to be adjusted to bring them up to the meta. DRK is too niche to be strong enough to make a difference by itself and PLD can only make a good team even better.

We need to avoid putting forward suggestions which dumb down PVP.

A big part of it is matchmaking though. What kind of askujzhfjdskjng suggested unranked players who have never played a match in their life should be paired up with people that have played 1000+?

[Canadane]

It's not so much that tanks have too little carry potential, it's that DPS have too much.
Try carrying a team on scholar. You'll find yourself at 5+ stacks of culling time and no MP after one of your DPS finally does kick the bucket.

If anything a good tank can help a lot more than a good healer.

[Geologo]

It's not so much that tanks have too little carry potential, it's that DPS have too much.
Try carrying a team on scholar. You'll find yourself at 5+ stacks of culling time and no MP after one of your DPS finally does kick the bucket.

If anything a good tank can help a lot more than a good healer.

I still think that a good tank can carry only if the opponent healer is not aware of stunlock for PLDs and double fell cleave for WARs,
or atleast he as not the same "carry potential" as an healer, I know that SCH drinks out his mp pretty fast but if both party are still alive because of bad DPSs, the party that have the strongest healer goes on, also if I have a solid healer usually I dare a little more to set my burst.
Obviously this is just my opinion.