The problem with having “Tank” as a class name

Hello all, I believe this discussion may have come up before, but I really would like Steven and friends to reconsider the name “Tank”. Overall, they have done a good job at naming the other classes and subclasses, but they ruin the immersion of the game by using the class name “tank”. Tank was a code name given to military vehicles being created in 1915. It has been a slang term for classes and archetypes in many video games given to the role that is used to absorb/mitigate or “tank” damage. Having a class name feels very uncharacteristic compared to the other class names. It’s like naming your cat “Cat”. It’s cute and punny, but is that what they really want for their game? What class do you play? Oh, I play a tank! Yea, but like what class? TANK!! *insert meme of a tank with a face on it... drooling*

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Warth

I'd like to argue, that Tank as an archetype name is and will always be completely fine.

Just because its common MMO jargo won't affect the quality of the name at all.

Names can have different meanings and while the tank archetype might lend itself to the tank role, it won't be the only thing the Archetype can do.

tautau

Try throwing out a different word for 'Tank' and see if it sticks. If people use your word instead, you have changed the language.

daveywavey

Let the thread diiieeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

Nagash

I will kill the next person to post and I will then use your bones as a xylophone as a warning to everyone else

ViBunja

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

Warth

ViBunja wrote: »

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

juggernaut and guardian are already class names and barbarian doesn't fit the theme

Warth

tautau wrote: »

Try throwing out a different word for 'Tank' and see if it sticks. If people use your word instead, you have changed the language.

people did that for 3 years. Non stuck so tank must be good

ViBunja

Warth wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

juggernaut and guardian are already class names and barbarian doesn't fit the theme

But AoC is based on D&D/Pathfinder, how doesn't it fit the theme?

Noaani

ViBunja wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

juggernaut and guardian are already class names and barbarian doesn't fit the theme

But AoC is based on D&D/Pathfinder, how doesn't it fit the theme?

It doesn't fit the theme of the class, not the theme of the game.

If you are a tank that reduces your incoming damage via avoidance rather than mitigation, being called a juggernaut isn't super appropriate. It only really fits in with a few of the possible tank variants in Ashes, as does guardian.

Tank fits all of them.

Nagash

ViBunja wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

juggernaut and guardian are already class names and barbarian doesn't fit the theme

But AoC is based on D&D/Pathfinder, how doesn't it fit the theme?

Because ashes is its own thing and its own world that how, Just because it takes influence from something does not mean it has to be the same so tank in ashes is fine

Asgerr

Can we have WanderingMist or any other mod close this god forsaken (aka Tulnar) thread down once and for all?

I swear I'll start having PTSD about this whole stupid ordeal

ViBunja

Nagash wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

juggernaut and guardian are already class names and barbarian doesn't fit the theme

But AoC is based on D&D/Pathfinder, how doesn't it fit the theme?

Because ashes is its own thing and its own world that how, Just because it takes influence from something does not mean it has to be the same so tank in ashes is fine

If it is their own thing, then why are you making into something else?

Nagash

ViBunja wrote: »

Nagash wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

ViBunja wrote: »

Tank should be Barbarian/Juggernaut/Guardian

juggernaut and guardian are already class names and barbarian doesn't fit the theme

But AoC is based on D&D/Pathfinder, how doesn't it fit the theme?

Because ashes is its own thing and its own world that how, Just because it takes influence from something does not mean it has to be the same so tank in ashes is fine

If it is their own thing, then why are you making into something else?

Im not the one wanting to change the name. I'm fine with tank as a name for a class

Warth

Asgerr wrote: »

Can we have WanderingMist or any other mod close this god forsaken (aka Tulnar) thread down once and for all?

I swear I'll start having PTSD about this whole stupid ordeal

If you don't like it, don't read it.

Asgerr

Warth wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

Can we have WanderingMist or any other mod close this god forsaken (aka Tulnar) thread down once and for all?

I swear I'll start having PTSD about this whole stupid ordeal

If you don't like it, don't read it.

Oh but I've read it and participated multiple times, across multiple servers. Nothing gets put forward beyond the "I don't like it cause vroom vroom tanks are a thing, please change it or I whine some more".

By now they are aware of the opinion, and I get the feeling they don't care.

So let's leave the front page of the forums (cause we know no one clicks to go to page 2, let's be honest), for newer and more constructive topics.

And if you don't like my complaining about this issue, don't read it. Sounds dumb doesn't it ya troll?

Noaani

Asgerr wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

Can we have WanderingMist or any other mod close this god forsaken (aka Tulnar) thread down once and for all?

I swear I'll start having PTSD about this whole stupid ordeal

If you don't like it, don't read it.

Oh but I've read it and participated multiple times, across multiple servers. Nothing gets put forward beyond the "I don't like it cause vroom vroom tanks are a thing, please change it or I whine some more".

By now they are aware of the opinion, and I get the feeling they don't care.

So let's leave the front page of the forums (cause we know no one clicks to go to page 2, let's be honest), for newer and more constructive topics.

And if you don't like my complaining about this issue, don't read it. Sounds dumb doesn't it ya troll?

If you want a thread to disappear, the best thing to do is to not post in it.

Definitely don't start up a secondary debate in that thread about things like whether a thread should be shut down, that could see the thread stay on the front page for a while.

Marcet

Change the name to Crusader!!

Wait... NOOOOO

Nagash

Marcet wrote: »

Change the name to Crusader!!

Wait... NOOOOO

Wait! name all tanks the Matilda

Warth

Asgerr wrote: »

Warth wrote: »

Asgerr wrote: »

Can we have WanderingMist or any other mod close this god forsaken (aka Tulnar) thread down once and for all?

I swear I'll start having PTSD about this whole stupid ordeal

If you don't like it, don't read it.

Oh but I've read it and participated multiple times, across multiple servers. Nothing gets put forward beyond the "I don't like it cause vroom vroom tanks are a thing, please change it or I whine some more".

By now they are aware of the opinion, and I get the feeling they don't care.

So let's leave the front page of the forums (cause we know no one clicks to go to page 2, let's be honest), for newer and more constructive topics.

And if you don't like my complaining about this issue, don't read it. Sounds dumb doesn't it ya troll?

are you saying that the opinions of new people joining don't matter? Why shouldn't they be allowed to state their topic on an issue that is apparently large enough to spawn 24 pages. Or are you saying that you stated all your opinions on the topic, so nobody else should discuss it? Both seem very egocentric to me

In other threads people complain that existing threads aren't utilized and new ones are crrated every time. Here you state the exact opposite. You can't have it both ways @Asgerr

Also, i perceive that there are better options than tank, i just dont believe its a big deal

tautau

So two tanks doing dancing emotes would be 'Waltzing Matildas?'

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