| Problem is simple really. Damage dealt was balanced, as fucked up as that might be and is, they at least worked on it to balance it. Defense has never been balanced. It has been capped, and in that infinite wisdom there is no reason to balance it, right? Except for the fact that the only purpose of (mainly) the warrior is to tank it makes no sense.
Balance should come in being able to get by with a knight tanking for you if you don't have enough warriors and an overabundance of say clerics. Unfortunately, in EQ right now, balance comes with the same classes being able to deal the most damage also being able to take it just as well. The ONLY reasons warriors tank better then any other melee (with same or better defensive skills) class is the taunt weapons that prove how broken taunt is, and the over abundance of HP items guilds have to give them so they feel like they can do thier job better then other classes.
Someone challenged Furor to throw a monk in front of the Emp. Sad thing is, a monk with within 1000 hps of him probably would do a better job of tanking. |