Thread: 7.0 Tank Wishlist

Here's my wish list dear developers and fellow forum readers:

DRK: Mostly a complete rework...

- Quietus removed
- A new combo path after Syphon Strike that adds a heal over time and upgrades Souleater into a new ability that does a lot of damage. You alternate between this new combo and upgraded Souleater when outside of burst windows.
- Delirium grants 2 stacks of Delirium, each stack allowing Bloodspiller to combo into 2 new actions. A new combo that can be used twice in quick succession, actions which are part of this combo grants 15% Skill / spell speed.
- Living Shadow grants a RPR Enshroud like effect, increasing Darkside's damage bonus from 10% to 20% ( this would make sense on your HUD as well as you have a RED icon next to your "armor" )

GNB:
- Continuation on Double Down and Fated Circle.
- Combo action after Double Down with another Continuation
- Another GCD in the Gnashing Fang combo
- A button that resets the cooldown of Gnashing Fang and Double Down so you can use them again ( every 2 minutes, when you'd just use 3 bullets on Burst Strike... ), could be added to existing Bloodfest.

WAR:
- A combo action after every Fell Cleave.
- A gcd action that opens a wound on target, which last for some seconds, dealing damage to target compiles damage up to a maximum, then the gcd turns into a super heavy axe attack that obliterates the target for 1000 potency or something.
- Infuriate also adds a small damage over time effect to your next attack ( works on Inner Chaos / Chaotic Cyclone ). Damage over time effects do refresh and stack for more damage.
- Upheaval's cooldown is reduced by 6 seconds whenever using any beast gauge action.

PLD:

- Atonement combos into 2 new actions.
- Holy Spirit places a mark on target, which is detonated by Goring Blade or Royal Authority, dealing damage proportional to the attack that triggered it.
- Holly Circle places the same mark, triggered by Confiteor.
- Cover no longer has a gauge cost.

PLD - Clemency is now an oGCD with a 5-sec CD costing 25 oath

I'd like to see the tank jobs actually play different enough to actually make the jobs feel differently. If you align your hotbars up properly, the jobs are nearly interchangeable. However, when we play a game with such rigid roles as tank, healer and DPS with no room for anything that can fit between those roles, the devs aren't left with another option due to the hyper focus on job balancing.

Originally Posted by dspguy

I'd like to see the tank jobs actually play different enough to actually make the jobs feel differently. If you align your hotbars up properly, the jobs are nearly interchangeable. However, when we play a game with such rigid roles as tank, healer and DPS with no room for anything that can fit between those roles, the devs aren't left with another option due to the hyper focus on job balancing.

They could give each tank actual job mechanics deeper than 'get gauge, spend gauge, press cooldown for more gauge,' have new mechanics that take advantage of their gauges and resources in new interesting ways, actually have you WORK for those mechanics, and make that work FUN while maintaining a sense of identity and job fantasy for each job. All of that can be done without stepping on other roles' feet and while maintaining a sense of balance...

... but they seem to be allergic to creative job design in this role, though I'd love to be proven wrong come media tour.

A PLD change I would want would be that Divine Might turns Shield Bash into like Holy Shield Bash making it a cone aoe including the stun.

Are you really still this upset over dark knight no longer having overwhelmingly high damage to the point that drk/drk was a more than viable composition?

Originally Posted by fulminating

Are you really still this upset over dark knight no longer having overwhelmingly high damage to the point that drk/drk was a more than viable composition?

I want War players to stop cannibalising any sort of identity Drk develops until War is just a direct upgrade over it and to then put the blame on the job.