Dark cloak nerf is a giant blow to nightblade tanking

Baraber

Many of the changes you have made in the past year went in a positive direction, in terms of "any class can perform any role", as this was a part of your vision. it was fun to watch the DK tank and Templar healer meta being replaced with the improvement of NB healing, Sorc healing and tanking, DK healing and much more, it gave players like me the chance to try out other builds with different classes and see them all viable in PVE end content.
In the end i chose to focus on nightblade main tanking, sure, it isn't the best tank, far from it, and still somewhat outshined by DK Warden and even Sorc, but it was viable, as i was able to tank every dungeon and trial with moderate sucess, a big part of it was the use of dark cloak as a very good and reliant heal (you call it a burst, i see it as a nice hot), stripping away the potency of this ability virtually kills my main Tank NB build, as every Tank needs, and have a "bursty" heal, it is an essential part of end game tanking, what is left is a pretty bad HOT that is outshined by virtually any other HOT, even mutagen..

By doing this change (together with dragon blood buff) you take a step back to the DK tanking meta, and it's a sad thing to watch.

ZOS, please reconsider this change, don't make us shelf our already average (but unique) nightblade tanks.

Silver_Strider

I swear that ZOS has the hardest rage *** when it comes to NB Tank. They continuously murder it in some way or another that just makes it less and less viable that at this point it just doesn't feel worth bothering to try at all.

Sap Tank died in Morrowind when ZOS nerfed Siphoning Strikes and made sustain incredibly difficult for a NB tank. Their sustain is among the worst now as far as Tanks go.

Tava Tanking died with the reworking of Major Evasion into a AoE damage reduction and while it was a logical change considering RNG dodge is both frustrating and unreliable, it was a unique utility build that also offered some sustain via dodging as it mitigated all the damage of an attack as well as preventing resource drain from blocking and using abilities to recover. This coming on top of the removal of Minor Vitality from Swallow Soul and the damage from Refreshing Path, making self healing and AoE aggro generation less effective for NB Tanks really hurt enough as it was.

Now they're trying to remove the only saving grace NB Tanks have ever received. It's enough to make me want to retire my NB Tank again and I will should this change go live as is.

KatySpirit

I agree so much! I love seeing the variety of tanks and healers and this is something I really appreciate about ESO. I am excited to be currently leveling a DK healer! I would like each of these play styles to be encouraged, to be given skills and passive that increase their ability to play these roles.

The huge hit to NB tank's self heal is the opposite of helpful. Tanks should have a bursty heal. Please do not strip classes of their ability to succeed in any of the roles.

If it is a problem in pvp, make the skill work differently in pvp and pve.

Gilvoth

dragonight is built for tanking
wardens make really good tank as well

John_Falstaff

Gilvoth wrote: »

dragonight is built for tanking
wardens make really good tank as well

If you think that non-tank DK mains (I'm one of them) are happy about being pigeonholed into tanking role... I for one consider it a huge scam that ZOS keeps "Dragonknight" on class selection tab instead of honestly renaming the choice to "Tank". They did proclaim "play as you like" thing before, but seems like priorities change.

Baraber

Gilvoth wrote: »

dragonight is built for tanking
wardens make really good tank as well

That is the issue here really, when things finally started going in the right direction in terms of class/role diversity, ZOS takes a huge step back, i'm ok with DK and Warden being the better tanks, but now we are one nerf away (Sorc burst heal) from them being the ONLY tanks.