I miss my Strength/Defense/Berzerker GS warrior
RIP
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Theoretically there could be a PS warrior tank (tank and PS support), but that hasn’t emerge.
This game is often disappointing. Tanking is a natural role for the warrior in every game. Players don’t play warriors to be support healers but to be tanks.
By avoiding pure Trinity this game has gotten to position where even though those roles exist, the meta for both roles are filled more optimally by hybrids — chrono (tank & quickness/alacrity support), druid (healing & GotL/GoE support).
I don’t think this is a bad thing. Anet can maintain this dynamic, but they just need to make other “hybrid” roles viable.
The point voidvector is trying to make is that heavy armor classes traditionally fill the tank roles. It is unusual for a medium-armored class (Ranger) and for a light-armored class (Mesmer) to fill the tank role regardless of whether or not there is traditional trinity in the game.
ANet could very easily have designed warriors, guardians and revenants so that only these classes could fill the tank role in raids.