That developer explanation is really bad and doesn’t exactly explain what they mean.
Wish they would just give examples of what they mean instead of making us guess.
Both tanks and healers have bad damage, considering when your loot drop is determined by damage, it is not honestly fair.
It’s just a severe flaw in game design by biased, unqualified devs.
Just as the PVP balance in the game, same thing.
I feel you
There is like 0 benefits going full tank. Every other DPS can be a tank only by shielding up.
Maybe great sword will make it better, but for now its terrible.
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The main change Id like to see is to move the 300 str perk to 300 con… that would alone fix a lot of issues for both pvp and pve.
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Going higher then 200 const (or 210 so you can eat 40 consti food for tanking in PvE) is really useless.
PvP as sword and Board? it is a “decent” secondary weapon if skilled right but only in small scale battles.
In a WAR where S&S shoud be good, it is borderline useless and pure garbage. (Hammer is just the way togo)
Blocking in a WAR is one of the most stupid things you can do, even a heavy dodge has more value then a freaking block. What ultimatly is the reason why you use a small shield in PvP to get a second Enchanted Buff oOo.
Dont know. CDs on s&s are freaking long compared to any other weapon with low battle impact.
And for the Invasion Part.
There is exactly 1 enemy that you can tank. And thats the bear, and even that stupid bear ignored all my taunts in the last invasion and just “random” attacked everything.
The way Invasion is designed you shoud play it with 4 heavy Spear players, 4 Void Gauntlets in heavy armor, 32 Bows and 10 Heals in Light armor…
And the freaking Spears and Void players are only there to debuff the enemys so the Bow players can trololol crit everything for 10-20k dmg.
its at the point ppl arnt talking sword and board in war any more, just to useless
and ppl are wondering why they cant find tanks anymore
sword and shield is for pve only really… you can’t tank a player that doesn’t want to engage you eh?
why does the void g have a healing down but the shield doesn’t? why is the gem slot wasted in pvp why cant we even tank things in content FOR PVE?
Gee an ability called Armor Breaker is like supper effective against heavy armor and shields… who would have guessed. I only run my Tank build in wars where the 30% damage reduction is used on points and in PvE (breaches, expeditions and the like). Otherwise I’ll run a DPS weapon.
I use SnB and GA and suppliment my “tankyness” with life stealing. I dont ever break 200 con unless im a certain roll in a war and then i go to 260 and use con food.
I LOVE sword and think its very powerful. My servers are down atm but ill send a pic of what i use, but i use a 600GS Keen/ls/mortal energy and a Lego (purple now) compulsion at 577 (low i know but havent seen any higher atm) and it rock with it. I use leaping strike, shield bash and shield rush.
It may look defensive, but its an OFFENSIVE build, just uses the turtle to get in or out when needed. My GA looks like this.
i run 200 con/50 dex/ X Str (whatevers left usually around 180-200 depending on what gear i wanna war atm.
Its a FULL tank build with lots of offensive capabilities. The only thing i dont like atm is compulsion now that kite shields are dropping with LS on it i think i can get better than compulsion.
no thats a brawler build
i guess you dont even have a taunt gem in. which means you still need to change to that and D stance so you can tank things
No its deff full tank. What i need to have 500 con to be a tank? ANYONE going over 300 is pointless. Being a tank doesnt mean i have to do no damage. It means i need to be to focal point in pvp and hold the threat/positioning in PVE. Based off how youre responding and how im responding, my build seems to work better and be more fun cause im enjoying it as you complain away. You CAN be an immovable object without being full con. Just saying…
As proof in games with meta dungeon crawling like wow and M+, tanks that deal more damage > just a sword and board sitting still
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i want a vid of you solo tank the tac guys in mygr with this build in a group of 5 then i will beleive it
LMFAO easy, i do it all the time. I did it yesterday in a group of 3 cause we didnt know just how buffed the sword guys got. DM me on here and ill give you my discord! Would love to show you and keep talking about tank builds and diversity between them!
prof or no cookie
Sword needs to do more damage, and taunt needs to work like every taunt in all mmos. They didn’t give tanks a real taunt in abilities, we got an rng taunt, that doesn’t work until after a mob does it’s attack. Taunt needs adjustment to put the tank on top of the hate list asap, as it should be.
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I have only just started to PvP a bit and do opr a lot, with so-so gear as well (556 GS) and I use a sword+shield and it works. I have stam reduction and stam regen and full def on s&s, and I can soak up attacks with that shield. Just 200 con for the 20% buff to armor.
I then use GA when I can be more aggressive and damage dealing. 1v1? Nah, not a very good mix, but for larger fights it works.
I have not done a lot of wars so no comment on that.
That said, sword weapon damage is poor, if devs decide to boost s&s then boost sword damage to start and see how it goes.
[and a number of s&s + hammer run about on my server]