I'm not talking about pet jobs with pets capable of tanking.
Plenty of mmo's have pet jobs as dps, and healer/buffer jobs with pets aren't uncommon either, but I've never seen a tank with a pet.
Conceptually, it could be neat. Have two pets, one defensive--that provides auras or buffs or debuffs, one offensive--that just does damage, but it would probably be hard to balance.
Warcraft: I do know about DK's Army of the Dead but that was just a cooldown and the pets had no intelligence. I know about Unholy's minion but unholy was not a tanking tree.
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I do vaguely recall a F2P game with pets that could actually tank, but I can't for the life of me remember the name.
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Something along the lines of: "We will not have any minion or pet classes in the beginning because those are extremely hard to balance."
A well working tank with effective pets? Difficult to find a balance there
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I think a lot of people (not everyone) are misunderstanding though. I'm not asking for pets that can tank (or npcs that you can hire), I'm asking about a tank class that has a worthwhile pet.
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I can't really think of any good examples:
- WOW Paladin tanks used to have a 3-5 min cooldown that summoned a companion, but I think the tank variant only used a damage reduction shield on you (the tank) and didn't actually attack or do anything else
- WOW Deathknights could summon a ghoul horde which could taunt.
- WOW Monks had an ox statue out most of the time which could AOE taunt. (Active far more than the above abilities but...well it's a statue, not a pet.)
- ESO's Sorcerers could tank, but it always sounded like they weren't quite on the same tier as the typical tank classes (Dragonknight/Templar), and when tanking it seems like Sorcs wouldn't end up taking pet skills (even though they technically were available for you to slot in.)
So nothing that really fits the OP's request. Honestly I was surprised that I dug through CoH's power sets and couldn't find an example of pets, since I could've sworn at least one tank had pets."What is truly revealing is his implication that believing something to be true is the same as it being true. [continue]" -John Oliver
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