Importance of AOE snare in solo tanking.

[peterthepan3]

Due to aforementioned reasons, I believe AOE Snare should be left alone: it requires a tactic (so many juicy tactics to choose from on the BO as it is, so you gotta give one up), it counters the KOTBS, and it costs a lot of AP to maintain (you'll find yourself using that a lot, so you sacrifice DPS for utility at times).

And what Penril said ^

[th3gatekeeper]

Simple and clear, do you BO players believe that if the AoE snare was adjusted to have a 50% up-time and still hit the 9 targets, along with the snares/staggers/roots avalible from other dps nad healer classes, be able to continue to Solo tank 3-2-1 groups?

Without spilling over into other discussions. (or trying not to)

- I dont see BOs solo tank. Usually a Chosen if anything.

- When looking at solo tank as an option, I dont think AoE snare is #1 reason people would run BO and BO already has a tough time (tougher) solo tanking a group... therefore I dont think having AoE snare reduced would all the sudden make this rarity of an occurrence, any less rare. I do think AoE snare is one of the unique things BO brings to the table, and with all due respect, I dont see this being a huge issue - with the larger issue being RDPS as well all know... With latency for most players, the melee range already feels smaller than it really is so snares are a "must" for any melee player... looking at nerfing snares, I think only leans us more and more towards RDPS > MDPS which we are already pretty heavily on that side of the fence...

- I do think that to bring this "inline" with other destro tanks, this should be cleansable (as should Order corresponding as well).


* if this is angled at looking at all 3 tanks and ways to balance each of them (BG recent changes for example) I would first start with a discussion around Chosen/Knights as they are the most OP, and most boring, of all the tanks.

[Collateral]

^If you could like comments I definitely would. BO is not really a solo tank, just like gatekeeper said. After playing the BO for such a long time (I'm certainly not claiming I'm the best though), chosens and knights really seem like total ez mode tanks. If you want to make BO a more 'solo' friendly tank, I think you should look at other things, as well as other tanks.

[Gerv]

I will chime in here myself and state that I wrote this almost 4 months ago my thought process and opinions have defiantly have changed.

This is not an indication of balance direction. Merely a topic I was trying to learn more about.

[dansari]

Oh I didn't even realize the first post was made in January

[Dabbart]

Post#1 » Tue Jan 10, 2017 9:32 am


ragafury: Necro King. Got to 3pages of replies before anyone noticed... The real question, why did no one respond initially...

Good discussion though. Even if entirely unnecessary...

[ragafury]

It was on page 1 greenskins. ;D

[Arteker616]

Simple and clear, do you BO players believe that if the AoE snare was adjusted to have a 50% up-time and still hit the 9 targets, along with the snares/staggers/roots avalible from other dps nad healer classes, be able to continue to Solo tank 3-2-1 groups?

3-2-1 groups with a BO. Has anyone ever seen one?

To my knowledge only order can run 3-2-1 and with a Kniggit.

If you would be fortunate enough to see a 3-2-1 des in game I'd vager it is built around a Chosen.

Entodalaboca , yipikaye , axeronea , peckman , danti ,kyra. been long though .

[Ugle]

Havent seen Nycta in ages