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New Crown Crate outfit style unusable
Brossin
Soul Shriven
So, one of my biggest pain points for styling as a tank is typically when arms packs have a dagger and no 1h sword or 1h mace options. It's just esthetically off putting to have a bulky male meat shield wearing a tiny pig sticker. That was up until I saw the new Time's Herald outfit styles in the new crown crates today. Let's think about this...you force a play style where tanks are required to back bar a staff, yet you did not include a staff for purchase. They look pretty awesome, but completely unusable by most all tanks out there that care about esthetics. Then you have the other half in the Devourer's Dragonbone outfit styles. Once again looks awesome, but they took the opposite approach and have a staff and no sword / board. With this one it would still be nice to have tank options, but I have less issues with it, as at least it didn't start to turn towards tank, then leave it incomplete. This is completely nonsensical design practice IMO and makes it pointless for me to purchase.
Now before people chime in referencing it, I know double sword / board tank builds do exist (as well as double staff builds), but most every trial group that I've ever been in would give the boot to a tank bringing that kind of build and I would argue that theses are very niche builds. I'm not looking to have discussions regarding that last point and will not bother responding to posts with people trying to justify those niche builds, as people are entitled to run what they enjoy and that's perfectly fine. I'm just trying to provide feedback on what the vast majority of people out there are going to be running. Just my 2 cents.
Edited by Brossin on 19 June 2025 23:46 Now before people chime in referencing it, I know double sword / board tank builds do exist (as well as double staff builds), but most every trial group that I've ever been in would give the boot to a tank bringing that kind of build and I would argue that theses are very niche builds. I'm not looking to have discussions regarding that last point and will not bother responding to posts with people trying to justify those niche builds, as people are entitled to run what they enjoy and that's perfectly fine. I'm just trying to provide feedback on what the vast majority of people out there are going to be running. Just my 2 cents.
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