Dancer (DPS Concept)

[kikix12]

Or perhaps I'm misunderstanding the intention of your reply. Regardless, I think you've misunderstood the idea I've proposed.

An "off-tank" is a character that can successfully tank, just with more difficulty. An "off-healer" is a character that can successfully heal, just with more difficulty. Just how actual tanks have an off-tank stance. They can tank perfectly well in it, but there are times they shouldn't.

What you seem to misunderstand is that by saying "off-tank", "off-support" and similar you suggest a character that could do these roles very well, taking place of the respective "specialists" with only mediocre decrease in ability. Now, if you said "a bit tankier against single foe" or "with some support" no one would have a problem. Dancer is expected to be rather support heavy anyway, no matter the role it will get. But the way you said it implies a character that is simply too good in all these fields. Even if you did not mean that.

[Freyt]

An "off-tank" is a character that can successfully tank, just with more difficulty. An "off-healer" is a character that can successfully heal, just with more difficulty. Just how actual tanks have an off-tank stance. They can tank perfectly well in it, but there are times they shouldn't.

What you seem to misunderstand is that by saying "off-tank", "off-support" and similar you suggest a character that could do these roles very well, taking place of the respective "specialists" with only mediocre decrease in ability. Now, if you said "a bit tankier against single foe" or "with some support" no one would have a problem. Dancer is expected to be rather support heavy anyway, no matter the role it will get. But the way you said it implies a character that is simply too good in all these fields. Even if you did not mean that.

I would suggest to you to think twice when pointing out what someone else misunderstands, because you've spent so much time trying to correct something that you didn't need to correct. I don't at all suggest for Dancer to off-tank anywhere near as well as an actual tank, or heal anywhere near as well as an actual healer (if they were to heal at all). From the very beginning I limited the idea to tanking one enemy at a time, and I further expanded that even this should be limited.

I'm sorry, but your observation that I've proposed for a DPS to have a tank stance or similar is unwarranted and not based on facts.

What you've decided that I've implied is not based on facts.

You've simply taken terms that have regularly been used as general blanket terms and arbitrarily decided fit specific things, and then disagreed with me for having used those terms that you decided that I had used incorrectly, when even if you could obtain a general consensus as to such, still does not go to the heart of the discussion.