What tank weapons would you like?

[Makeda]

Put me down on the hammertime list as well as many others it looks. Every since I made a Hammer Warrior in Guild Wars 2... it's been a concept I've gotten rather fond of.

I'd also be interested in a second shield option. Shield plus pretty much whatever. Might even be interesting to see a shield only concept - like Captain America and some versions of Wonder Woman.
Shield plus mace to me seems like it would be too similar to shield plus sword... but I'm not sure what other weapon would not have the same problem.

Monk is a DPS - but there are still martial artist concepts. A kickboxer of some kind. Capoeira or such in style.
(current Monk makes me think of Jeet Kune Do, at least as wikipedia covers it - fast and not flashy, offense as a defense).
Or Judo like - lots of interrupts, stuns, and short CCs that are based on tripping or otherwise throwing an opponent off balance. That's a control style, and you could 'expand it with some fantasy moves' that lead to tank-like concepts.
- Just like Mace and Shield... the real problem is making it look and feel very different from Monk. Enough so that players seeing the two would not feel like one was a clone of the other.

What I'd really like to see is the revival of two concepts from now dead MMO Wildstar: The stealth tank and the ranged tank. One is a tank that has a lot of short term vanishes and abilities that move it around the target - but this needs to be done without causing bosses to turn onto a raid right before launching a tank cleave... The other is a tank that uses a ranged weapon and has something that keeps the enemy at range. In wildstar it was done with bot-pets that held the aggro, movement CCs, and well... using the ranged weapon in melee and just ignoring that the concept wasn't really holding up...