Please Reconsider Splitting Main and Off-Tank Roles Based on Job

[Rithy255]

Honest question. What do you all think has been the case for the last 13 years of this game's history, besides the player base deciding what the optimal main and off-tank is at a given time for higher-end content? What do you think is happening right now, besides SE simply designing around that? Do you think that designated off-tanks are going to be completely incapable of tanking? Really?

Saying this again, it's ego and uncertainty that are driving this conversation.

I feel like your missing the entire point here and that its not ego.

I'm a PLD main and don't want to be pushed into the MT role only, as I like to flex on Paladin, a lot of wars/gnb/drks feel the same way they dont want to just be put into one box.

If the offtanks are fairly capable of tanking then MT becomes entirely useless which is a key issue you'd just run two Offtanks for the extra party support.

People need to relax until more details are available. By my best guess, "main tank" simply means most likely two things

1) Having slightly better self-protection and
2) Having more "counter attacks" than off-tanks (use a "defend" skill like Shelltron, get hit, able to do a counter skill)

If that's the case that does not mean you won't be able to tank as an "off-tank", you just won't have the "counter attack" play style. And with off-tanks having less self-protection, yet still able to survive tank busters, it could mean healers would need to spend 1 or 2 more GCDs to heal after a tank buster, reducing the advantage of taking two off-tanks for higher damage.

With this, I don't mind this change, quite the contrary. We'll just have to wait and see until more details are available.

People shouldn't really just relax until more details are available they should have explained the vision better if they wanted people to relax.

Also yet again if offtanks can main tank pretty well then MT becomes entirely useless where you should bring two OT's for the added party mitigation which is more important.

funny thing is people like the flexibility of being able to MT and OT, Tanks shouldn't have to be split to be "unique"