The game is coming up on a year old, In the entire time since the launch of the game Tanking as a class has received nothing but indirect nerfs and a decline in QOL. Damage has gone up 20%+ because of light armor changes and the influx of new perks. Heavy Armor as a whole is now useless. Shields give relatively no protection as their stamina is abismal. Tanks have no chance to ever catch someone in light armor, nor do they have the damage to even kill someone they do catch. Light armor in contrast can blow through a tank in seconds even with a healer due to perks with rend and disease. A Tank with a healer should not be able to be killed by a solo Light DPS.
Sword and shield gives a nerf to attribute points as shield still doesn’t apply its attribute points when sheathed. Sword and Shield take double the umbral shards of any other weapon. Why is there not a single Named Legendary shield in the game?
FFS AGS Please Don’t Kill the Holy Trinity of MMOs.