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

[Mukuku]

As others have said, the split is there probably so they can use mechanics like counterattacks and such without having all of the tanks fight for aggro for the DPS gain.

That would not solve the problem in the duty finder unless they enforce the split there too, which I don't see happening.

If they're going to commit to the split, I hope they'll go further in the idea of taking damage to deal damage; something like a reverse Wildfire where the more hits you take, the higher the potency of the attack. Vice versa with the OTs and the way they play. I think if they nail this, it could do a lot to break up the years of stagnation that we've seen with tank design.

Good old Vengeance in WoW MoP... Very fun times as Blood DK main, but there are good reasons it got scrapped.

The lesson learned is yet again and again: if you tie DPS to something, expect the players to abuse it.

While tying DPS to taking damage sounds interesting on paper, that would incentivize players taking damage, which is really not a good idea.

[Mikey_R]

That would not solve the problem in the duty finder unless they enforce the split there too, which I don't see happening.

That's no difference to now though, the have said the DF does try and put a pure and shield healer together and try to get at least 1 melee, 1 caster and 1 phys ranged (or at least keep 2 different flavours of DPS in 4 man) when making parties. Of course, they are going to add contingencies so a role doesn't potentially end up in purgatory, not able to get in a party, but this will be no different if they added this for tanks.