The game needs more tank classes to help the queue

Yassha Profile Options #61

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Jeanine on 05/30/2012, 12:12 PM - view
Yassha on 05/30/2012, 08:32 AM
Jeanine on 05/30/2012, 05:07 AM
im a bit scared of the idea warriors being able to queue as tanks, whats left for us lancers? nothing cause why take a boring slow lancer with nearly no damage if you can have a warrior fast like hell and dealing some decent damage?
if warriors are allowed to tank then give us lancers a dps stance like the warriors defense stance, that way we can compensate our future horrible waiting times in queue with solo questing with the same speed a warrior can kill the quest mobs.

fair deal, just fair.


Unless you are some sort of super-gifted player, you don't pump out much damage as a warrior tank. The priority is keeping agro, dodging, and trying to avoid moving the boss too much. Plus your glyph and crystal set-up for tanking doesn't give a lot of scope for high damage. You pretty much do the same thing as a lancer.

The question is do you want to play a full-plated beastly tank weilding a huge weapon and a bad arse shield, or a slightly inferior (tanking wise) dual weilding arcrobatic leather armoured tank. I don't see any problems, lancers are way cool but they shouldn't be the most important class in the game. And we all deserve to be able to put a group together much more quickly than at present, whether through the LFD or just in chat.


that could be possible with making the Lancer more interesting to the folks so more people would play a lancer.
i dont say make the lancer the most important class in the game but taking away the lil bit a lancer has isnt the right way.
the first thing i got in mind after reading warriors will be able to queue as tank is all the warriors abusing the tank option just to shorten their waiting time and then horrible fail with the team. that means us lancers will be stuck in queue like forever cause of the warriors flooding the lfd tool as tanks since there are tons of them.

a solution for this would be an option for players to chose what kind of tank they want... so players who trust in warriors can have their warriors and people who like to be safe with a lancer can have their lancers. thats all i would like to ask for then.


Perhaps you misunderstood. Lancers are cool now. I love them, many other players also think they are cool. They are not the least played class.

Lancers RIGHT NOW are the most important class and are treated as gods because they are the only class that can queue as a tank. Letting warriors queue as tanks only takes away lancers' current god status, the class itself is, was, and will always be cool.

Letting warriors queue as tanks lets every other non-lancer suddenly have much shorter queue times. It also gives the correct image that warriors are tanks (which they are).

Running with a warrior tank may not be optimal in many cases, but it is a dirty rotten myth that it is really hard to tank with them or that the run will end in a Terable fail. I am a dumbarse mediocre player but still have had great success and fun tanking on a warrior.
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Yassha on 05/30/2012, 05:56 PM - view

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I am a dumbarse mediocre player but still have had great success and fun tanking on a warrior.

At what level of content? I have difficulty believing you have handled hardmodes as a warrior. Or even Fane, Kelsaik, or BT normal.
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Quick point before I get to the OP's purpose of his post. In wow for example, if you play a paladin or a warrior during the leveling process, you can spec all out DPS to change up the play style making leveling feel a little bit less grindy and more interesting whereas playing a lancer its one monotonous playstyle from 1-60. And this goes for all the classes for that matter.

To get back on track regarding queue time, this problem will never be fixed given this failing design of "holy trinity".

I think GW2 finally got it right which is why i have unsubbed from tera and will be playing gw2 instead.
Yassha Profile Options #64

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Other games with multiple tank classes/builds have much faster queue times for dps and heals than Tera, when warriors can queue as tanks the queue time will go down.

Hopefully with the new warrior changes people will start taking warriors more seriously as tanks as well, and not remain in this blind "must have a lancer or will fail" delusion.
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Zdravko Lvl.60
Mount Tyrannas (PVP)
Aman Warrior
Here's your tank class...

http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/general-discussion/topics/Queen-of-Argon-Part-2-Info

As well as 3 new endgame dungeons, 10v10 and 15v15 battlegrounds.