Tank stats in PVP

Despite popular perceptions lately....they did not actually do that. 4 out of 8 AC's rely heavily on weapon damage attacks, typically with their hardest hitting ones.

Defensive stats are actually quite useful against half the classes in the game.

I would agree that "half" is not enough, but it's a lot more than people in these threads recently would have you believe.

People are too focused on the NUMBER of tech attacks and not their frequency of use or the conditions to use them (15 second cooldown AND Melee only for Stockstrike).

also doesn't help that the biggest offenders of being all tech/force are mercs/commandos, sage/sorc, operatives/scoundrels. some of the highest dpsers in game and the most popular classes right now

for the life of me i cannot figure out why operatives/scoundrels have mostly tech attacks. they are the squishy rouge type class that burns through healers and ranged, they don't also need to burn through tanks

Despite popular perceptions lately....they did not actually do that. 4 out of 8 AC's rely heavily on weapon damage attacks, typically with their hardest hitting ones.

Defensive stats are actually quite useful against half the classes in the game.

I would agree that "half" is not enough, but it's a lot more than people in these threads recently would have you believe.

This, pretty much Bioware said that tanking in pve and pvp would be similarly worthwhile.

Im going to search for the quote now, but as i remember Bioware praised tanking in PvP, and assured us we would be impressed. Of course im paraphrasing. Ill try to find it.



Edit; I found one quote, but *not* the one im looking for, still searching;


And i quote;

Q: What incentives will there be for players to focus on targets outside of the typical “gank the healer” strategy; and how will factors such as burst damage, crowd control and “PvP tanking” play a role in accomplishing this?

A: Winning will be the incentive. Attacking the healer will be the right decision sometimes, but not always. A key contributor in ensuring this is the tanks’ Guard and Taunt abilities. Guard will redirect half of the damage through the Tank’s mitigation and avoidance. A taunted target will deliver less damage to everyone but the tauntee. Players will be able to easily visualize which Tanks are guarding and taunting, who their targets are, and when damage is deflected through clear animations and effects. This adds to the dynamics of a skirmish as players of varying skill levels can easily react to and be on their toes about who the real targets of opportunity are and when. Additionally, Tanks will be recognized and rewarded for how much damage they deflect in this fashion on Warzone scoreboards.

We have a fairly large health pool to burst damage potential ratio. This allows for burst damage to be useful when the time is right, while not letting it dictate the outcome of all skirmishes.

And as far as crowd control goes, there is ‘Resolve.’ Every time a player is crowd controlled they build up Resolve, which is pictured as a bar over the characters head (below the health bar). Once a player’s Resolve Bar is full it changes colors and starts to decay over time, during this they are immune to crowd control. The visual element helps with PvP accessibility, and tuning the Resolve values allows us to achieve a fun tempo ensuring crowd control as its place but isn’t the end all be all of PvP.

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