My new main is a Paladin, but I have a serious issue with the often-touted "Holy Trinity"... DPS + Tank + Healer.
My problem is with the "Tank" concept itself. In real life, a Highly armored low-DPS combatant would be ignored and saved for last. In MMOs the enemies swarm to the tank. It's stupid and does not make sense. Although it creates the Holy Trinity strategy, I think it would make more sense to have flexible strategies. There are a lot of problems arising from the Tanking concept in Neverwinter. Constant debates over how much DPS they should have, problems with 'aggro-pulling' & 'threat generation', problems with assumption of roles, problems with how in the fantasy campaign monsters stick to tanks like magnets... yet in PvP the Tank is avoided like the plague. I think its time that the concept of 'Tanking' be re-invented.
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As for what I have observed in the game. Thornspur today was literally chasing the clerics around Yester Hill. I was having a hard time just keeping up. If they keep that up, we need the Benny Hill saxophone music playing in the background. The NPC needs work, I am pretty sure I speak for more than myself, it needs better battle smarts. The robots just run at me and use stun attacks too much. They added a stun attack to the Barovian scarecrows, it is too simple to avoid it. No one want more knock downs, and there is a lack of good strategy in the game for me to enjoy combat to any degree.
That's how we played D&D.
That's kind of how I would like to see Neverwinter work
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Really?
I think you are playing the wrong game.
Obsidian Oath - Warlock
A whole lot of other Obsidian toons as well.
I challenge you to group up with me sometime..
Honestly, I am a tank who doesnt need a healer..
> I agree. Tanks are not needed to hold aggro (they can't anyway). Paladin is ranged dps now. Just make everyone dps and let them choose healing powers or aggro or dps powers.
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> I am pretty sure you have grouped with a wrong tank..
> I challenge you to group up with me sometime..
> Honestly, I am a tank who doesnt need a healer..
How would you survive lotmm mechanics? 😆