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

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

[...] And if PLD's intervention applies the same buff then whats even the point of making it a MT? Just seems like a very odd choice to me.

Because "MT" and "OT" in the case of what the devs use to call them are crude labels that simply describe two different tank dichotomies and has probably nothing to do with us choosing to be a Main Tank or Off Tank in a raid role.

From what the descriptions of the powerpoint slide say, "Main Tank" is basically just better at being a Bruiser (slightly better personal mitigation or using direct mitigation) where-as the "Off Tank" is closer to a Debilitator/Debuffer specialization with maybe better ally mitigation capabilties. The way I interpret this is them trying to actually make tank dichotomies mechanically much more than forcing roles, similar to us having Pure Healers & Barrier Healers.

That mechanical split is basically an attempt to counteract the homogenization that tanks have gone through over the expansions - every tank plays virtually the same now, rarely does one tank or another mitigate differently, they're all extremely cookie cutter.

Personally I wouldn't get so hung up about whether my tank is labelled MT or OT and more about what the core kits will look like.