Aaryn Flynn says: We Have Learned From The Mistakes of Inquistion....

It kind of has to be about boss fights because trash mobs in both games are so easy that you can get through most of those without much damage taken, if any.

Though the original point is that there's no encouragement to conserve resources if the game is so easy that the only limited regenerating resource I have doesn't take a hit in most fights.



It regenerates pretty slow though. You might get a few casts out, but you'll definitely be using the staff for the majority of the fight if you blow all your mana in the opening seconds(or chugging Lyrium potions).

While auto attacks did decent damage, you had no more utility abilities which are a fairly big deal in both games.



True, but I was saying as a tank our objective isn't actually to take damage but rather to mitigate it. We just accept that in games, especially in MMOs, often it will be the case that taking zero damage isn't possible.



I've seen some pretty crazy setups in WoW over the years including Mages, Rogues, and Warlocks tanking current raid bosses.

Actually at one point Warlocks became so durable they were a better tank than any of the actual tanking classes. They ended up being nerfed, but it did happen.



Raiding may not be the only gameplay, but most MMOs are very combat oriented more so than even modern RPGs are. If there was no reason to bring a Rogue to group combat content that excludes them from 95% of group content in the game and very few people would ever play a Rogue as a result.

People already hated it back in WoW when you had things like Paladins only being allowed to heal in group content. There was a lot of complaints from the classes capable of speccing into multiple roles because often they were only ever actually any good at one of those roles.

A MMO that decided it was okay for a class to be almost worthless in a raiding environment would have to be vastly different and not have raiding as a central focus for the majority of the playerbase. It's nice that you played solo in EQ, but that's not what the majority of people playing a MMO want.[/quote]