Further tank homogenization is pushing me away from tanking

[kiritolove27]

Some background info to who I am and when I came into the game for better understanding; I started playing this game as soon as Stormblood began, and what got me to play the game was watching the trailers of Heavensward, the reviews of how awesome DRK was back then. In the Risk versus reward class, I went through Stormblood's savage content as a tank main and did the same now in SHB. Ever since Stormblood, the developers have been moving towards giving every other tank what they had that they didn't, now everyone has a gap closer, and their cooldowns are all the same.

Playing each tank feels too similar, specially DRK and WAR, with delirium being a bad inner release.

During the live letter, the devs said the tanks would be getting some CD in which if you use it at the right time, you get benefits......this sounds precisely like TBN; why is every tank now getting a TBN equivalent? Why does every tank need a gap closer? Why does every tank need an inner release? They don't.

People are always quick to point out that DPS queues always take long, well let me tell you that not having interesting tanks that feel unique from each other will only push the tank mains that have stuck with the role to different roles.

I know they said they don't want to go back to the complexity of the 3.x series. I wasn't there, so I can't say if it were better or not. I am only advocating for more individualism from each.

I know this thread is probably a year late since the changes we've seen are potentially being finalized, and any further changes will take months, if not years, to happen. I feel defeated to know that tanking has only gotten less and less fun with each expansion, and the trend continues.

Goodbye, tanking, my old friend.