Dorieon@Unrest wrote:(because if we had the dps they would nerf our tanking to avoid whining).
They don't really have to. We could comfortably do brigand DPS which gives us a combination of weak tanking and solid DPS that is above the other fighters who have mediocre DPS and good tanking. The brigands have a choice of weak tanking and solid DPS already so it wouldn't kill them to have brawlers be the same way. The typical brigand setup is solid DPS and superb debuffs, where we give up the debuffs in favor of tanking ability. They can choose to not max their DPS as much and pick up weak tanking, though. Neither brigands nor a higher DPs brawler would do enough DPS to catch up with people who don't have that secondary ability (tanking/great debuffs) - casters and predators, mostly. Illusionist fills a similar role already as well - buffs and DPS. Not wizard/warlock DPS, but good dps nonetheless.
Brawlers could be the same way with AAs. Where brigs are dps/debuff and can use AA to boost their tanking or their DPS, we could be dps/tanking and can use AA to boost our tanking or our DPS. Of course, that would require them to give us a good tanking line and a DPS line that was worth a [Removed for Content]. But it wouldn't break anything.
They could then probably dial our avoidance and hp down ever so slightly and we'd be right on the money.