We should not be the best tanks, SoE said from the begining all fighters would tank equally, that is fine. acceptable, heck even expected. that shouldnt be the issue. here are the issues i have seen in my 52 lvls thus far.
Sheild Factor: there are a few things that need to be fixed with this.
a) how do you justify a 3 foot kite sheild having the same factor as a 6 foot tower sheild when from the same teir/materials?
b) along the same lines is the block rates, a kite sheild shouldnt block like a tower sheild, its just not physically possible.
DPS: we are currently lower than some preist classes in the dps dpt i dont think this was intended, currently brawlers in short fights can out dmg teir 1 dps classes, do i want that kind of dps? no not really, but do i think any fighter should? also no i dont. our solo ability is directly impacted here it takes us twice as long to kill anything.
Utility: we are given defensive group buffs, group hp buffs, a group sta buff, and a single target hate reducer for when we tank, when we dont tank we have the protection line, the hate reducer is a good idea but the rest of our utility is a farse, why give hp/sta/def to a group of people that if i do my job wont use it, way i see it the only halfway decent utility buff we get is the one that gives offensive bonuses. we have a huge deficit in the utility dept, this is the area id like to see the most improvement. i would like nothing more than to have some unique yes i said it devs unique utility that makes people want us in a group. right now im sad to say we are very overlooked. deny it all you want but its true.
Avoidance/Mitigation: when you took our avoidance and made us stuck in the mud tanks(which i totally agree with) you didnt give us any mitigation to compinsate for the avoidance you took.
Our high end legendary abilities are HUGELY disappointing these are not even close to useful please look into different avenues for these to go.
There are positives about us that i would like to thank the Devs for, we do have serious agro generation, we can hold agro better than ever now. but we are fine with what we have now. please stop giving me more taunts. thank you but enough is enough.Also i think we tank fine we dont need to tank any better as far as taking dmg, some abilities to avoid dmg would be nice for raids ect but if not i wont be heart brokenif i never see it.
All in all i think i would be in favor of sony shutting eq2 down for a month, working out all the bugs, getting all the classes balanced, getting all the raid mobs balanced, all the cheesy graphics up to date(im in full cobalt but i look like a lvl 40 twink in ebon) rather than the live beta we live in.