What is the point with tanks in Arena?

[Korha4X]

I am a tank build who recently got to lvl 50.
However while trying arena, I noticed that my role seems useless.
I can't kill anything due to my lack of damage, however, I am also so strong where they can't really kill me.

But the issue is, it turns into this scenario where they just stop attacking me, and literally ignore me and just hard dps the rest of my team because they see no reason to waste their mana on me. And even tho I am using every ability in my power to buff my team and deal damage to the enemy, they are simply ignoring me and hard focuses my team as there's no way for me to kill them or force them to target me. I am quite literally just a mosquito in the arena

[Girthquake]

Dude, you’re literally playing the TANK lol. Wedge yourself in between your teammates and eat the damage for them. If people start running away - just chase and distract them as much as you can. What are they gonna do? Kill you? You’re a TANK. Start tanking.

[Chays]

Originally posted by Girthquake:

Dude, you’re literally playing the TANK lol. Wedge yourself in between your teammates and eat the damage for them. If people start running away - just chase and distract them as much as you can. What are they gonna do? Kill you? You’re a TANK. Start tanking.

what an clever comment...

you think he can get other ppls aggro ? you think he has skills that realy player must aggro him ???

sure he can grab some at some point but if an player want he can just let him and still focus dmg dealer

[Girthquake]

Originally posted by Chays:

Originally posted by Girthquake:

Dude, you’re literally playing the TANK lol. Wedge yourself in between your teammates and eat the damage for them. If people start running away - just chase and distract them as much as you can. What are they gonna do? Kill you? You’re a TANK. Start tanking.

what an clever comment...

you think he can get other ppls aggro ? you think he has skills that realy player must aggro him ???

sure he can grab some at some point but if an player want he can just let him and still focus dmg dealer

You don’t need skills to steal their aggro - you just need to get all up in their space relentlessly. Its incredibly easy to steal not one, but even two enemies aggro’s at once if you play it right.

[DaxiraxJr]

Originally posted by Chays:

Originally posted by Girthquake:

Dude, you’re literally playing the TANK lol. Wedge yourself in between your teammates and eat the damage for them. If people start running away - just chase and distract them as much as you can. What are they gonna do? Kill you? You’re a TANK. Start tanking.

what an clever comment...

you think he can get other ppls aggro ? you think he has skills that realy player must aggro him ???

sure he can grab some at some point but if an player want he can just let him and still focus dmg dealer

The game is a action mmo first and foremost. You stand in front of someone and they have to hit you because that's how aiming works. If they aren't hitting you, you MAKE them hit you instead.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by DaxiraxJr:

Originally posted by Chays:

what an clever comment...

you think he can get other ppls aggro ? you think he has skills that realy player must aggro him ???

sure he can grab some at some point but if an player want he can just let him and still focus dmg dealer

The game is a action mmo first and foremost. You stand in front of someone and they have to hit you because that's how aiming works. If they aren't hitting you, you MAKE them hit you instead.

That's literally not how that works. It's not an action MMO dude.

[Korha4X]

Originally posted by Dregora:

Originally posted by DaxiraxJr:

The game is a action mmo first and foremost. You stand in front of someone and they have to hit you because that's how aiming works. If they aren't hitting you, you MAKE them hit you instead.

That's literally not how that works. It's not an action MMO dude.

Yeah what you said lol.

If I stand in between them or not doesn't matter, they are still able to attack my teammates. Especially in ToL where most people play ranged.

[Truen]

Originally posted by Chays:

Originally posted by Girthquake:

Dude, you’re literally playing the TANK lol. Wedge yourself in between your teammates and eat the damage for them. If people start running away - just chase and distract them as much as you can. What are they gonna do? Kill you? You’re a TANK. Start tanking.

what an clever comment...

you think he can get other ppls aggro ? you think he has skills that realy player must aggro him ???

sure he can grab some at some point but if an player want he can just let him and still focus dmg dealer

-Can he get other people's aggro? Ofc. It's about positioning and having heals behind you. --Can he do what to a damage dealer? Grab and CC them? I mean, he does have access to a 2nd weapon slot so sure he can do whatever I'd guess...within reason.

Tanks are very effective meat shields and if you stack hp and hp regen /w defensive stats like melee endurance and evasion, you're going to be a problem for others to take down. You're not going to be able to alpha like a champ, but you're going to avoid being Alpha'd as well.

[snazzydrew]

That's literally how tank is in every MMO PVP...

Because Tank Healer DPS is a PVE holy trinity thing.

I just think gamers are incredibly braindead and don't realize that PVP is a COMPLETELY different beast than PVE and has to be played completely differently with different builds in mind.

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u will be killed sooner or later...at the end in castle thing

[Korha4X]

Originally posted by snazzydrew:

That's literally how tank is in every MMO PVP...

Because Tank Healer DPS is a PVE holy trinity thing.

I just think gamers are incredibly braindead and don't realize that PVP is a COMPLETELY different beast than PVE and has to be played completely differently with different builds in mind.

Well the issue here is that the trinity isn't a thing in Arena. You can match with 2 other tanks, or end up with 2 healers etc. So when I'm a unkillable tank but also unable to kill anything else, and the enemy team is 3 heavy DPS builds then they end up just farming my 2 teammates while I can give them a stun once every 20 seconds to be a nuisance.

You say this is how a tank is in every MMO PVP but I am a tank both on WoW and FF14 and in those games I can actually kill people even as a tank.

[zvein]

it's the case in every mmo, [traditional one at least] ..
tanking in pvp is semilar pve logic , but diffirent playstyle , which mean your role is to make your team take less damage, how , you would say ?

here is the general rule :
depends on you secondary weapon, either by doing some crowd control, interrupting ennemies attack , or by some off-heal to help the team stands a bit more , and ALSO , your small damages , is a way to make pressure , ex : like while you team is focusing a damage dealer , you can make pressure on ennemy healer by either focusing a second squishy damage dealer ... so add to that some crowd control on either main focused damage dealer or enemy healer [depends scenario and compo ]

also take into account generally in mmo's , pvp low scale tanking have a diffirent builds from pvp large scale tanks and pve ... pvp low scale tanks , tend to be a bit more agressive with a bit more damage stats and a bit less defensive ... an agressive tank lets say , *there is no reason to be a potato hp bag in low scale pvp*

Those are general standards rule in every mmo for tanks pvp , take into account i still have 0 experience in this particular game

[YOjUL]

funniest part was as i read that this guy is already lvl 50 .bro i need to work every fking day for like 12 hours and finally i created my first character now. can you please start searching some jobs and do something useful ? xD

[𝕋𝔼𝕏 | Spelltax]

delete this trash zombies...

[Mr Rabbit]

Originally posted by Girthquake:

Originally posted by Chays:

what an clever comment...

you think he can get other ppls aggro ? you think he has skills that realy player must aggro him ???

sure he can grab some at some point but if an player want he can just let him and still focus dmg dealer

You don’t need skills to steal their aggro - you just need to get all up in their space relentlessly. Its incredibly easy to steal not one, but even two enemies aggro’s at once if you play it right.

doesnt matter lol.. if hes doing no damage then everyone will just ignore him like a fly and focus on the others lol

[donut32]

Originally posted by YOjUL:

funniest part was as i read that this guy is already lvl 50 .bro i need to work every fking day for like 12 hours and finally i created my first character now. can you please start searching some jobs and do something useful ? xD

leveling easy in this game takes like 12 hours total to get to 50