Physical Ranged TANK

[whiskeybravo]

Sounds like a glorified cover tank with a lot of inherent problems.

Main one being that people who don't want to play tank probably aren't going to like having to tank when they get randomly matched up with it.

Eh.. It's a neat idea, and probably about the only way a tank could ever actually be "ranged", but just doesn't seem like something we need. And really, you're effectively making it possible to have a 3rd tank in content to cheese mechanics (I don't what mechanics could be cheesed, but people are great at figuring that stuff out)

EDIT: forgot to mention invulnerability. Your partners HP can no longer go below your current HP while under the effect. (If you die, then they can die. If you're at 2,436 hp, then they cant drop below 2,436)

And this is kind of problematic considering that if the partner is the one taking the damage, and not the "tank", then they are effectively permanently invulnerable.