Diversifying Tanks

[RadicalPesto]

You could diversify the defencsive toolkits quite substantially just be emphasizing more the differences between physical and magical damage and varying the levels of effectiveness accordingly.

If you look back to HW Paladin was a rahter weak magic damage tank but a real strong physical damage tank. DRK was a rather weak physical tank but a real strong magical tank and warrior was kinda middle of the road with both. this worked quite well and was fine right up until the devs went and made an entire tier of content almost exclusively magic damage...

I mean, what you mean by this is "it worked quite well for Ravana Ex and that's it". Paladin was an atrocious class in Heavensward, and it wasn't just the weakness of its magic mitigation that made it so. PLD had no AoE, would run out of cooldowns in almost every raid, it had worse party defensive utility than DRK and WAR (Divine Veil couldn't compete with Reprisal, Delirium and Storm's Path), extremely bad TP sustain while both DRK and WAR had nearly infinite TP, awful aggro generation that meant it had more trouble than the other tanks staying in DPS stance and also, its DPS was miles behind the other tanks. Heavensward Paladin is a very bad example to use if you want to support a design of "not all tanks should be good at everything", because Heavensward had two tanks that were good at nearly everything and one tank that was only unique in being almost completely dysfunctional in all content.