Dear Paladins

[Absimiliard]

What context is there to misunderstand, you literally said tank invulns should be used for emergencies as opposed to cheesing, there is literally nothing to take out of context mate. So cheesing is, before it was patched, was people stripping naked and re-apply gear then have healers heal people from critical health to generate LB3 before the fight even started. As said, thankfully it has been patched. Making use of invulns and planning out their uses in fights is usually smart plays so it can help take the stress off of healers while actually making use of buttons instead of leaving them gathering dust, just in case something may or may not happen.

Okay, there is an obvious disconnect going on here. At no point have I insinuated that tanks should only use their invulns for emergencies in the game's current build. I've been one of the people arguing /against/ that mentality. What I was getting at with the single out-of-context comment was that they need to come down hard on tanks by nerfing our invulns into the ground. We can use them too freely. I feel that they should have massively increased cooldowns, drastically reduced durations, and reduction or removal of their start up delays. It is my opinion that forcing players to do each and every mechanic as it comes up would lead to more engaging gameplay. This would have the benefit of increasing the likelihood of errors being made which would in turn increase the probability of someone dying, leading to more interesting encounters.

As for your second point; the community at large typically refers to anything that negates or bypasses an intended mechanic as cheesing. Does this mean it's bad? No. That also doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. It's just a word we use to describe doing something like that, and it so happens that tank immunities are usually the most effective means of pulling that sort of thing off. We should all be doing it at every possible opportunity to minimize risk and maximize efficiency, and indeed, most of us do. So, when one of us refers to something as cheesing a mechanic, we don't mean cheating. We mean finding a creative solution that allows us to reduce or in some cases entirely negate the threat posed by that mechanic. I strongly advocate the use of any shortcuts (as long as they don't violate TOS in some way) we find in the game's current build. My position on this will not change until or unless the way tank invulns work is altered in a way that is not conducive to continuing this behavior.