Thread: Try to predict Nerf/Buff/QoL of 4.2 Tank Edition

Originally Posted by Aana

This would actually make it much harder to balance. When you intentionally make tanks with strengths and weaknesses, you inherently make some better than others. When they have specific niches they become OP/Required in

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i totally agree wit this I feel like it sway more wiggle room to be different with dps, but tanks and heals are just gona have to be pretty similar but just have a different feel to them. I actually would like to be able to switch from tank to tank and notice slight differences but have their aesthetics be the different maker as opposed to one or the other being weaker than another one.

The idea that Paladin has some ridiculous amount of utility is pretty laughable to begin with. They have a lot of tools to mitigate for other party members, and that's basically it. No gap-closer, no free oGCD heal that generates a ton of aggro on pull with no DPS loss, no oGCD stance swaps in or out of tank stance, no slashing debuff, mediocre burst damage, no ranged AoE enmity tool, etc. If you're going to make an argument that a tank should have its wings clipped a little bit and some nerfs should be passed around, Paladin is not where you should be focusing.

What I am hoping for: lots of balancing for tanks (mostly DRK fixes to core issues)
What I am expecting: even less content to do which mean more canceled subs...
What will happen: me getting my Stromblood DRK mount and stop playing if 4.2 is basically the same as 4.1 patch or early access days...

Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure

What I am hoping for: lots of balancing for tanks (mostly DRK fixes to core issues)
What I am expecting: even less content to do which mean more canceled subs...

it will be tho , just gona be insert relic grind, insert new raids and u will essentially have the same thing

Why decrease max MP?

Four uses of DA/TBN is 9600 MP; DRK's current max of 9480 only needs a paltry 120MP to be perfectly divisible by 4.

I honestly don't know why people (myself included) don't complain more about how much of an obvious slap in the face that is. Imagine the stink Warriors would kick up if the Beast Gauge capped out at 95.

Originally Posted by Crater

Four uses of DA/TBN is 9600 MP; DRK's current max of 9480 only needs a paltry 120MP to be perfectly divisible by 4.

So you're saying Piety materia has some value for DRK?

On a more serious note, though, how much would the extra MP actually benefit DRK? Just trying to think about in my head I can see 1 extra GCD, most likely being used for bloodspiller, because it's going to free up needing the extra syphon. Or maybe the MP from syphon results in an extra DA. (genuinely not sure). At the very least it seems like another simple adjustment that would help boost their overall damage.

Well an extra 120 MP doesn't really do much to improve overall theoretical performance (DRK theorycrafting tends to kind of assume 100% resource efficiency which really wouldn't be meaningfully affected by 120 MP), and you typically don't ever cap MP or Blood the way that you do BG or PLD MP because the resource generation is too complicated to do it that way.

It's just a QoL thing in the sense that it's kind of stupid for DRK's max MP to be 3.95 casts of DA/TBN instead of 4.