Quote Originally Posted by Izsha View Post
This.

Tanks are in their most balanced state defensively, offensively, and support skills than at any time in the history of the game WHILE adding a 4th tank. That is already quite a feat. By most accounts pld and gun are fun, well designed classes. Drk, (as is expected with overhauls) has mixed reviews as old guard doesnt like change but many newer drks seem to be enjoying it. Wars in a similar boat, but both are still functional. We could see some tweaks here and there, sure but theres no crisis.

Compare some of the most repeated complaints. Nascent flash is clunky. War doesnt synergize with party buffs well. Drk 5x bloodspiller spam is lame copypasta. Tanks are a little to 'ez'. Tank damage contribution with other roles is low (separate from balance within the role which is great).

Compare those to previous expantions. Drk is trash and useless(SB). Pld is trash and useless (HW). War is OP as Fidge(HW/SB). War is utter trash and cant even tank raids (2.0). Pld has obscene unfair levels of utility with good dps, and personal mitigation (SB).

The tanks are in a relatively amazing position with only minor gripes compared to the dramatic balance issues of the past where 1 tank was always dramatically op and 1 was flat out worse at most things or everything. Most of the complaints today are about 'clunky' this and 'clunky' that. Those are subjective preferences. The core of the tank role is really REALLY solid accross all tanks. Im quitting cuz se hates tanks! And all this rage because X tank didnt get someminiscule tweak sound really childish when you look at the big picture. Try some perspective people.

"Minor complaints" maybe you should go look at the tank damage forum. There is a giant complaint of how tanks got gutted with their importance and dumbed down between expansions for no reason. Healers got his treatment but did SE fix them? For the most part yes, relatively quickly, so why didn't tanks at least get mentioned they will look into???

WAR is not in a good spot, no one is saying that who looks at basic data. WAR is the least played tank by a country mile while all the others are relatively close in play percentage. DRK have valid complaints, but WAR has massive problems too stemming from the whole rework they did to WAR in SB (Which was a bad idea). WAR is supposed to be the sustain tank, but that means nothing when every fight you need to tank swap resulting in long periods of time where you are not using your strengths while other tanks bring better party or damage than you. Then WAR complete kit got screw balled this expansion by being gutted and then left with a shell of a job with just IR and fell cleave spam which results in one of the worst feeling tanks to play in the game. Balance means nothing if you aren't having fun, and the community is basically saying "we are not having fun with WAR".