Ideas for types of Tanks

Since the tank update is coming, here are some ideas that I had for a while about types of tanks:

-Tank with Heavy CC: A tank who has lots of ways to CC enemies like roots, staggers
-Magic Mitigation Tank: A tank that focuses more on protecting the team from magic damage rather than physical
-Projectile Block Tank: A tank that focuses more on stopping projectiles on their way
-Damage threat Tank: A tank with more DPS that builds threat by dealing damage, and the better the damage output the better the tanking
-Evasion Tank: A tank that focuses on dodges and dashes to protect itself from harm
-Ranged Tank: A tank that is ranged

Do you have any other ideas for Tank types?

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akabear

Wouldn`t a Tank/Ranger be a contradiction in classes?

Ludullu

akabear wrote: »

Wouldn`t a Tank/Ranger be a contradiction in classes?

I feel like this would be a mobile tank. Maybe even an evasion one. And depending on other augment schools, "rangeriness" might not even come into play in that class.

Deba

akabear wrote: »

Wouldn`t a Tank/Ranger be a contradiction in classes?

You become captain America, and start throwing shields at your enemies.

Deba

Since in wiki it says that a ranger's raison d'etre is range, there has to be at least an improvement in range on some abilities. Maybe we could see a Tank/Ranger as a tank with more AoEs , mobility and evasion. Maybe it will be easier for the Tank/Ranger to pull and redirect aggro from further away. Also a Tank/Ranger type is called a Warden. Does that hint to you anything? Do we put people in jail as a Tank/Ranger?

Songcaller

The old statement was that any Tank/x can tank. You only need a tank primary like cleric primary for healer. However, a lot of feedback has been given and the rules might have changed.

Azherae

Deba wrote: »

Since in wiki it says that a ranger's raison d'etre is range, there has to be at least an improvement in range on some abilities. Maybe we could see a Tank/Ranger as a tank with more AoEs , mobility and evasion. Maybe it will be easier for the Tank/Ranger to pull and redirect aggro from further away. Also a Tank/Ranger type is called a Warden. Does that hint to you anything? Do we put people in jail as a Tank/Ranger?

Sure, why not?

That's a valid Tank type too.

It should be impossible for every Tank/X to tank every enemy equally 'well' if using the same strategy. And since I would hope you don't have 'absolute freedom of strategy' against every opponent, that's going to be the decider fairly often.

I'm rapidly learning that people are used to the type of Tank I hate the most and therefore don't really think about how this could work, but I'm hoping to see something in Tank Showcase that makes it clear we're not dealing with that limited tanking style.

I feel like this is going to be the dealbreaker for a lot of people, assuming Intrepid actually shows enough for anyone to make any real judgement on it to begin with.

Iskiab

akabear wrote: »

Wouldn`t a Tank/Ranger be a contradiction in classes?

Maybe, but then I got to thinking taunting with a bow is really useful, especially against casters.

Stalwart

Deba wrote: »

I think a Tank/Bard could be also a tank with beneficial tanking buffs. Since there's also Bard/Tank, I've been thinking that a good way to differentiate the 2 would be by making the Tank/Bard have beneficial buffs for the survivability of the frontline and the Bard/Tank have beneficial buffs for the backline.

Since in the wiki it says that summons can CC, ill say that Tank/Summoners are probably gonna be good at CC as well. In the AoC wiki it says that a Tank/Summoner is called a Keeper which I think is ambiguous. To me, Keeper sounds like the kind of guy who summons one strong dude instead of more. But maybe we could also see something resembling a 300 spartan warriors kind of summon.

Yeah I want a buff tank. It's my favorite type in large organized groups. You buff and debuff depending on when you need the group to burn or survive through mechanics. It's imo generally the best role for a tank since they won't be dishing out damage or healing in a large capacity.

Stalwart

Iskiab wrote: »

akabear wrote: »

Wouldn`t a Tank/Ranger be a contradiction in classes?

Maybe, but then I got to thinking taunting with a bow is really useful, especially against casters.

I've played many types of raids where a range tank is ideal. It's usually to mitigate boss mechanics. You don't use a bow but you do use a ranged taunt.

Could also be used as a kite tank, which usually is seen to cheese some kind of mechanic as an OT. It could be legit if the planned that way though.

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