For ones who are not familiar with meaning and defention of fantasy roles defentiotion, in short form, with important things bolded:
A tank is a style of character in gaming, often associated with a character class. A common convention in real-time strategy games, role-playing games, Fighting Games and MUDs, tanks redirect enemy attacks or attention toward themselves in order to protect other characters or units. Since this role often requires them to suffer large amounts of damage, they rely on large amounts of vitality or armor, healing by other party members, evasiveness and misdirection, or self regeneration.[1]
Yeah, you read right, not just "soak alot of damage, run away, come back with guard and wonder why other die"
the thing that annoys me in DAMP pugs that there many dumb selfshit Legionaires who love their border OP tank but are uselees piece of crap, and could even whine about DD die. DD is there to do damage, when Tanks pull/taunt enemies. on them .
Alot of people whine about Katari, Reaver, Assasin, Alchemist , but hey, those are purest melee DD dealers, and they surpass ranged ST of Archer and mages. Melee DD involve risk, which should be taken of by proper tank / support work, with quite of deal of proper timing and positioning from melee DD player. Tanks also have responsibility those guys dying, not only those guys themselves (unless they run into mobs and die straight), because if you play as tank you should not be only selfish guy who ends game with more score than melee DDs because he died less, but you must use brains and fulfill your role, this means, pull attention CONSTANTLY from those guys to allow them to do their role, i.e. Damage Dealing.
Support? Keeper? You need to see and differ whether your composition requires from you well-timed barriers on Tank (ranged dps), or melee DDs (they are more powerful but they are very prone to dying without proper tank pull and your barrier). Barrier on group are great, but not always possible, and pulling Barrier on your DD will allow him to offtank, taking alot from main tank, when laying barrier on guard Legionaire , or even worse - yourself, is just a waste.
TLDR: Some classes are pure DD, and require pure role definition of tank, dd and support in party. If you do not pull as tank or do not support as support character its your guilty that party wipes. Tank responsibility is to pull attention and damage, to redirect it and soak it (just soaking , eventually you do less than 50% of your work), and support responsibility is to use reasoning and provide your service where is most vital/needed in order to suceed as a team .





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