SW:TOR Tanking speculation
Being that I love tanking I’be been trying to dig up some tanking info on The Old Republic. They haven’t confirmed a “Holy Trinity” style of play yet but they have said that there would be raids and I find it difficult to have a raid without someone to take the serious hits.
Three classes have been revealed so far: The Trooper, The Bounty Hunter and the Smuggler. Its safe to assume that Both sides will have a Force sensitive class and that the Empire side will have a smuggler equivalent (Likely an Assassin/Rogue). In less they intend to give The Trooper and Bounty hunters Stun Batons/Vibroblades and a Shield, I can’t picture any other class being a tank other than the Force user. I picture a Jedi/Sith tank using a two-handed grip on their Lightsaber and having decent crowd control.
Then again these could just be my hopes coming though.
To see the general feeling on Tanking and traditional class roles I hit up the Official forums, which turns out to be rather depressing.
Traditional anything isn’t really whats being shouted from the loudest posters. A lot of people seem to want Bioware to come up with a magical solution to the problems that they don’t like in the games past.
I’ll have to keep hoping that I’ll get to tank and we’ll see what happens. I hope more than anything that Bioware sticks to their guns, produces the game their way and doesn’t release it until it is ready (EA be damned).