Will mages be the new tanks?

xunen · 04-16-2008, 04:03 PM

Okay, so there are around 6-7 Dispersion & Displacement items (VP robe, VP ring, faction shoulders, KC forearms, Nathsar Sash, quested earring...) with two of them absorbing 2 attacks and the rest absorbing 1 attack on a successful proc (10%) plus a 200-500 groupwide manaproc everytime an attack gets absorbed.

Now add some proc increasers, put Dirge and Templar stoneskin on, adorn some of the 3% parry and 3% riposte stuff, give 'em an avoidance check and mages will probably have a greater survivability than any given tank in RoK. Plus with all that Dispersion / Displacement gear, your group's mana shouldn't drop below 95% I think, which shouldn't be too hard anyway with all those new procs.

Well, now that they got all the defensive stuff, how will they handle aggro you may ask. Here is the solution:

Next problem solved. And with the current melee vs caster hitrates, I think mages will be pretty decent tanks.

What does this thread want to show us? The Dispersion & Displacement gear is completely overpowered and should be changed to something more appropriate for mages, because they are NOT supposed to be tanks.

Something like "decreases threat priority to target by 1" when being hit would come to my mind.

/discuss

Batu · 04-16-2008, 04:14 PM

Good weapon for Coercers in the MT group. The more hate they generate the more they transfer to the MT

Rokkual · 04-16-2008, 04:59 PM

Lol, our wizzy used to tank Dominus Atrebe til they changed him, held aggro rather well even without the wand.

Faxon · 04-16-2008, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Rokkual

Lol, our wizzy used to tank Dominus Atrebe til they changed him, held aggro rather well even without the wand.

doesnt surprise me rofl. i bet you daray was doing the same thing when he boxed him for a couple weeks b4 they suspended him for it (which i still think is fucked).

in all honesty though this stuff is fucking stupid overpowered. you could get to over 100% stoneskin before they added the displacment effect on VP loot with the 4 pieces of avalable dispersion gear a templar a dirge (proc buffs + stoneskin) and a mystic with ancestry. now with displacment its just going to be fucking stupid since the effect is different and you can proc it as well as dispersion on getting hit, on top of templar stoneskin AND dirge stoneskin, and it absorbs 2 hits. i mean wtf soe, did you really test this all out or are you just being fucking stupid with the effects you put on shit like always? because with some HP buffage and a bit of mitigation, any mage could easily tank a group zone and a t1 raid with some of this shit, espescially with all the hate gain for casting speed gear out there now and the procs that do stupid damage on every hit. they really didnt think this out very well =/.

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