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Impossible is possible ! Dozens of MMORPG did it before AOC. With a one hour brainstorming, they can find a much better solution
In case it's relevant to Intrepid, this would mean that people are going to be upset about the old Sarge since one of the direct answers to his question, in game, given by/to your character is "I'm a Tank".
Please avoid further controversy (no sarc) by changing this, as I don't think the other two options actually even WERE 'I'm a Mage' and 'I'm a Cleric'.
Some long-overdue feedback on Alpha-1, I guess...
More seriously, @Noaani, they MIGHT actually have thought that was okay... and therefore actually DO intend to use 'Tank' as a term in game. It's probably as you expect, it was Alpha-1 after all, but at the moment, it might not be utterly crazy to take that interaction (and I think one other, actually, but I don't remember where, maybe Ellyon) and its 'actual use of the word Tank' to mean that they intend to use it 'as is'.
However, I have no reason to expect it to be anything other than what I expect it to be.
I've just read that 'tank' has actually had a videogame definition added to it's list of meanings...
So now this is more viable right?
I mean is definition 8... But it's there
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tank
No tank can only mean military vehicles even if no one ever talks about those anymore
There you go, I fixed it.
For the moment Chat GPT refers to "Tank classes" of other video games. Whatever the language is evoluting, we are still free to use the words we want to express ourselves.
Tank is ridiculous (according to me) so I will simply not use this archetype period .
vote now, on your phones
you can call it knight, king, helicopter, myself and most players will just call it a tank like in every other mmorpg lol
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That's because Summoner is a class and not a role. I have never played a game that has a class called Tank. It would be like if Cleric was called Healer instead. Tanks aren't a class they are a role. That's the issue people have with it.
I think they have been named better than tank but could have had better names.
I mean same. If it doesn't get changed I'll still play the game but its still a terrible name for a class. I have to agree what someone else said about it being tacky.
Thank you this is the other issue I have. If you have certain Archetypes that aren't a tank but can tank this would cause confusion for people. Not only that it limits who can tank and who can't. So do we have to come up with new jargon for tank because they decided to make a class that?
lol thanks I was about to go off. Ranger and Fighter are indeed D&D classes
Don't you guys think it's very petty to be concerned about this?
Let's look at it realistically. The only time when your class will actually be called Tank is pre-choosing secondary class. After that you become warden or guardian etc. So it's just in the early game.
That's assuming people even take the time to really learn all 64 classes and don't just refer to the primary archetypes at all times... And that is exactly what people will do if the effect of your secondary on the primary isn't that great...
And... if Tank is actually official at launch - lots of people will prefer to say Guardian, rather than Tank.
Slang happens.
Why would Ashes be the opposite to all other games?
In other games, a class called a Guardian just gets called "tank".
In fact, all classes that can tank in other games are just called "tank".
You choose to disagree just because you love to agrue.
No, I understood fully what you said, I just disagree with it.
You may well opt to call tanks "guardians", but that does not constitute "lots of people".
In the context of the population of Ashes - there will not be "lots of people" that call the tank archetype "guardian".
You're right, players just say tank, healz, and DPS
So if all classes that heal get called healz... Why does cleric get a name that's not it's role? While tank just gets tank.
I fully acknowledge that if it's official name got switched from tank to guardian everyone's still going to call it tank, just like most people will call a cleric primary heals anyways...
Whereas a tank will be the only class able to tank.
Eh
That may be true, and if it is then sure...
But if bards can heal, as in fill The role of a healer and party content. Then I seriously hope other archetypes will be able to fill the role of tank if they take the tank secondary and build their character as one...
I fully expect a summoner/tank to be able to tank.
However, keep in mind that Bard is a support class, and so is cleric. As primary archetypes, support is what they do.
Tank is the only tank archetype.