Is Tanking Boring?

[Katie_Kitty]

Boring is entirely relative. If you have mastered the fundamentals of this game and the special skills involved in tanking, tanking is a snooze fest. if you have not mastered game fundamentals and skills involved in tanking it can be challenging or downright overwhelming.

This entire question is somewhat flawed. it is similar to asking "is tanking easy?". Well for expert tanks, why yes. Very. For newer/less skilled tanks No. It is not easy. These kinds of questions are entirely relative to the ability of the player. Boring. Easy. Interesting. Hard. There is no 1 answer. There are just people that fall along the entire spectrum depending on personal experience and skill at the task.

Easy is not the same thing as boring..

[Izsha]

Using examples of similar concepts to make a point is not stating they are identical.

This entire question is somewhat flawed. it is similar to asking "is tanking easy?".

Asking an entirely subjective question LIKE is tanking boring OR is tanking easy are both equally as unanswerable and entirely subjective. Reading is hard though.

[Mycow8me]

6 months later and my thoughts on this are the same. Tanking in this game wont be any different than a dps with mitigation cooldowns till they find a way for us to interact with tank busters using original animations for the class. Clashing was a neat addition for tanks but the way they incorporated it is lame.

Why not a clash button that you press and hold for incoming tank busters with a small minigame window of oppurtunity like getting a moving bar to stop on a red line on screen within 5 seconds. The closer you are to the red bar the less damage you take, land on the red bar and you take little damage and counter attack. Thats just one example... theres so much they could do with clashing for tanks but its been turned into a lame button mash event in a select few fights. Clashing could have been an actual fun tank thing to look forward to with original animations for the class and we can rely less on mitigation cooldowns and even remove some for more interesting skills.

Bleh, who am I kidding. Tanks are gonna be a gloriified dps regardless, i just wish the act of tanking in this game was more fun... not just assuming a bit more responsibility.