Thread: Tank Accessoires 4.0

Originally Posted by Faeon

I don't know maybe i am just overthinking it. But it sounds like a tank should be a dps with tank utilities? so you would have healer, pure dps, dps with defense abilties

Yeah because being overly tanky and overhealing people won't help the group at killing the boss. Once you're good enough that you don't have to stay in tank stance or healing non stop you should contribute dps.

Originally Posted by aleph_null

However in that case the difference between good tanks and average tanks would be the difference between clearing and not clearing

Not automatically. For example, if RoH would apply the cumulative shield I'd mentionned, you'd have PLDs that mainly accumulate shield again and again, to the point of "overshielding", and maybe put aside Royal Authority totally. As a good tank, you'd pinpoint the amount of shield you need. It would work pretty much like judging the perfect amount of enmity combos you need, except than overdoing it could be useful.

You see, I totally support players optimizing their DPS, it just that stance dancing, for me, feels like an unatural and clunky way of doing it.

They just need to add STR to our accessories now.

Like the 2nd secondary, it would not be as high as the "primary" primary. Thus DPS would still have much more atk power plus all their other damage skills.

I can't believe anyone would advocate turtle tanking. Talk about boring. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed tanking in this game because the damage was not so abysmal. Now that they take that away.......