Party changes moving forward for 8-man content

[Ritsuka-55]

Instead of 2 tanks, 2 healer and 4 dps.

Should be:

1 tank: Keeps aggro away from the party, does damage, moves the boss if needed and provides mitigation for self and party.

2 healers now changed to SUPPORTERS: provide damage buffs to party, an extra party mitigation, does damage, and 1 or 2 healing buttons for an emergency.

5 dps: do damage, some self buffs for utility.

[Palslow]

then what if there are multiple adds that needs tank to separate them? they already have 1 tank per team for alliance raid...maybe if they have 6 people raid then 1 tank is ok.. LOL

[gotaname1]

why 2 healers? even current savage can be done with just 1 of those

[Larirawiel]

Instead of 2 tanks, 2 healer and 4 dps.

Should be:

1 tank: Keeps aggro away from the party, does damage, moves the boss if needed and provides mitigation for self and party.

2 healers now changed to SUPPORTERS: provide damage buffs to party, an extra party mitigation, does damage, and 1 or 2 healing buttons for an emergency.

5 dps: do damage, some self buffs for utility.

Ermmm ... why? I do not see any benefits for this.


Cheers

[Ritsuka-55]

then what if there are multiple adds that needs tank to separate them? they already have 1 tank per team for alliance raid...maybe if they have 6 people raid then 1 tank is ok.. LOL

that's old garbage design, we are at a point that we are well past that, most of the times the second tank it's just a blue dps. might as well remove it completetly and add a 5 dps.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

What? Healer is required? What is this wonderland located at?

/s

[HyoMinPark]

that's old garbage design, we are at a point that we are well past that, most of the times the second tank it's just a blue dps. might as well remove it completetly and add a 5 dps.

Or an alternative would be to just make the fights require two tanks. P3S is how I wish most fights were designed, where the OT is also steadily taking auto attacks. This ups healer engagement since we now have to watch both tanks’ HP bars—and, honestly, the OT in P3S takes far more damage than the MT does.


As it stands now, 2 tanks, 1 healer, and 5 DPS would work far better as a party comp. You barely need 1 healer in a lot of fights. 2 is needlessly redundant considering how low the healing requirements are.

[LeonKeyh]

that's old garbage design, we are at a point that we are well past that, most of the times the second tank it's just a blue dps. might as well remove it completetly and add a 5 dps.

Except for tank swaps
Except for shared tank busters
Except for support for the main tank/party (Reprisal, Nascent Flash, Intervention, Heart of Corundum, Heart of Light, etc etc etc etc)
Except for various tank based mechanisms (e.g. eating orbs)

The only thing this change would do is narrow the fight design, require them to rebalance all existing full party content, add a little bit more pressure to the healer(s), and maybe make DPS queues go a little bit faster. There's no need for it.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Take this idea even further considering this game current combat design.

8 Dps. There you go c:

[Ranaku]

Will never happen ever and the reason for that is cause it would make a whole bunch of mechanics and possible bossdesign impossible for which two tanks would be needed like two adds or well look at every fight in the entire game lol there are countless trials where two tanks are needed, you can't even beat Bismarck without 2 tanks.

So yeah nice idea but i don't think the devs give up half of their designkit for trials etc.