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Originally Posted by Romm
personally, i'd like to see 2 avoidance based tanks and 2 mitigation based tanks.
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I don't think we're going to see this in Vanguard as the classes defined as Defensive Fighters are all traditionally heavy armour wearers. Avoidance tanks in EQ2 (waaaaay before the various changes, I only played for the first 2 months and 3 months of beta) I was in a raid (as my Kerran Paladin) where the MT was a monk after the original MT died, accidentally left the instance and was locked out.
This monk did an awesome job, though I had to lend a hand with warding him, but it brought me one step closer to restoring my Ghoulbane and there were plenty of "congratulations" and "I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it" afterwards.
Sadly player perceptions go a long way in pick up groups, and as a result my monk was relegated to DPS.
Vanguard seems to draw the line where melee combat is involved. Plate tanks, non plate (+ dual wield, optionally) does DPS and "light tank" to grab agro from / protect / intercept a blow heading towards a squishy and stand firm while the proper tanks get agro back again.