How do we feel about the tank changes?

[linay]

My only concern now is how to stay in second place on enmity list as an off tank. I'm pretty bad at it right now even with enmity rotations. If enmity is now tied to the stance with no specific enmity rotation, this might be even more difficult for me.

[Aurelius2625]

You don't NEED to be in second place for enmity, you just naturally are because other jobs, if they aren't retarded, are using Lucid, Diversion, Elusive Jump, etc... on cooldown, so since you can't drop your threat outside of shirk, naturally, you should be second on threat.

But you don't NEED to. Just voke, and yo'ure on top. With the new changes, you just turn on tank stance, voke, the other guy drops his tank stance, and you continue on. Voke and shirk are still there. Enmity is non existent now, and thank god.

[Dualblade]

Provoke and Shirk are still around (both were moused over when they were showing off GUN) so enmity shouldn't be changing drastically. If you really feel the need you could just pop on your own tank stance to get your own up and then turn it back off.

[linay]

Ah, ok, will have to see.

[Sigiria]

And if you've really got to be second in the enmity list for a mechanic, wait for the mt to have generated enmity and when the boss start casting something, provoke then immediatly shirk the mt. You'll be just behind them.
Or after the the 5.0 just give the MT a head start then turn on your tank stance since there won't be any penality for it and turn it off if you feel you're catching the up to the MT enmity.

[Big-Isaac]

My problem with this situation, and the way SE chooses to handle the pre-release info, is that I don't know what is being changed.
The changes to stances are good, but what about my actual jobs? I've seen those flashy new animations in the trailer, but how do those skills interact with the rest of me kit, and what about that kit has been changed to facilitate the new stuff?

I really wish SE would just give us a break-down of how the jobs work now, with proper tooltips and everything >.<

[linay]

Think this will work assuming there are no ability change with the stance and the MT has equal gear as the OT?

OT has no real reason to turn them off either, just holds out on turning them on until after the opener.

[linay]

My problem with this situation, and the way SE chooses to handle the pre-release info, is that I don't know what is being changed.
The changes to stances are good, but what about my actual jobs? I've seen those flashy new animations in the trailer, but how do those skills interact with the rest of me kit, and what about that kit has been changed to facilitate the new stuff?

I really wish SE would just give us a break-down of how the jobs work now, with proper tooltips and everything >.<

I think they're letting the media reveal more info next week, plus there is more live letter after E3, and then there is the job guide that will be posted.

[guardin]

bring me dark arts or gimme the dark flames and for the love of sound bringers get rid of that rid stank line. Dont need to spam dark arts but it was such a cool power boost animation and now its like our shadow is cooler than we all. cool skills though

[Greven]

For what I could see I really like the tank changes, GNB looked a little be lacking on the flashiness but it's okay.