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The Everquest Mage class was centered around it's pet. The Mage could summon weapons and armor to give to it or give it other weapons and armor. It could tank fairly well and there was a different type of elemental pet to summon. The water was immune to poison. The Fire to fire. The earth was the toughest. The air attacked a bit faster. EQ also added the beastlord in the ruins of kunark expansion I believe. It was a fairly good tank as the beastlord could slow monsters, haste the pet, and heal the pet.
The skill to tame creatures in Ultima Online was fairly powerful. This was somewhat replicated for a while in SWG until it got nerfed.
Why wouldnt he say, then, a tank that has a pet that is just there to look neat? Why would anyone be curious if there was a tank that had a pet? Monk in Wow?
Not sure if the White Lion from WAR would qualify. I think it was a hybrid class that mixed in dps/tank/pet,..sort of...based on spec...kinda...? Am I stretching here?
Reading the replies - it's amazing how many didn't read or understand the OP.
The OP is NOT talking about pets as tanks, he is talking about tank classes with pets.
Seriously, this lol. Thank you to a bunch of people that listed jobs like what I'm looking for, but several people did misunderstand. Maybe my title didn't explain well, but my post did.
On an solo, small party level, several MMOs have pets that can tank. On the raid level, I don't wouldn't want to see pets tanking anything more than adds, because that means the pets have to be highly resistant to AOEs/deathy moves.
I just always thought it would be neat to have a tanking class that could be augmented by the pet. Probably 2 pets (one at a time). One that buffs the tank/party or debuffs (like attack down, attack speed down) the enemies, and a separate pet for farm/outgeared content that contributes to dps of the tank or of the party.
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug. 12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
Guild Wars (before pet nerf) Nec/Ele with 20+ pets pretty much tanked/steamrolled anything
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I looked up Wildstar Engineer on youtube when someone mentioned it (because I'm not familiar with the game's mechanics at all) and the player playing it (for 20 minutes) pretty much sucked at the class. I'll have to look for other videos.
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug. 12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
Reading the replies - it's amazing how many didn't read or understand the OP.
The OP is NOT talking about pets as tanks, he is talking about tank classes with pets.
Aww crap - Please disregard my post. Sorry OP and thanks for the wakeup call DM.
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!! (repeat ad infinitum)
To the several people that brought up Wildstar's Engineer.. this seems as close to what I asked for as anything, it just took me a little bit to find a decent gameplay video. Engineers (which are tanks, themselves) do seem to have dps pets and tank pets (though the tanky pets actually try to tank themselves).
A few people mentioned RIFT but I couldn't find anything besides PVP videos.
Any other examples would be cool too.
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug. 12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
Wildstar Engineer is a great example for an AAA MMO (although some would debate the AAA part lol), some mention EQ, but not many mention EQ2. I noticed you mentioned something about NPC mercs, but every class in EQ2 (all 6 tanks) can hire any merc, DPS, Healing, or another Tank. It gives you large variety of "controllable pets", and the tanks are still capable of all content including raids, since they are the regular main tank classes.
If you are looking for something alittle different, there are a number of Korean/Asian MMO (most F2P), that have pet mechanics to them. And you would be playing the normal Warrior or tank classes, with an additional pet, either for DPS, heals, or more Tanking. The newest of which is Dragomon Hunter, currently in beta, but like I said there are many many more.
DAOC... Bonedancer. He was a cloth class, but got damage mitigation buffs which made his cloth equivalent to plate. He got to summon 4 minions, of which he got options for buff pets, heal pets, ranged pets, and melee pets... He also had insta-cast DD LL.
CoH had the Mastermind class, and depending on what "theme" the Mastermind chose, you could have pets that did things like heal (I think the mercenaries had this) or buff (the robots had this). The player himself was often too weak to take an alpha strike, however, so I'm not sure if he could "tank" per se.
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"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
The skill to tame creatures in Ultima Online was fairly powerful. This was somewhat replicated for a while in SWG until it got nerfed.
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On an solo, small party level, several MMOs have pets that can tank. On the raid level, I don't wouldn't want to see pets tanking anything more than adds, because that means the pets have to be highly resistant to AOEs/deathy moves.
I just always thought it would be neat to have a tanking class that could be augmented by the pet. Probably 2 pets (one at a time). One that buffs the tank/party or debuffs (like attack down, attack speed down) the enemies, and a separate pet for farm/outgeared content that contributes to dps of the tank or of the party.
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug.
12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!!
(repeat ad infinitum)
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug.
12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
We dont need casuals in our games!!! Errm... Well we DO need casuals to fund and populate our games - But the games should be all about "hardcore" because: We dont need casuals in our games!!!
(repeat ad infinitum)
A few people mentioned RIFT but I couldn't find anything besides PVP videos.
Any other examples would be cool too.
Spec'ing properly is a gateway drug.
12 Million People have been meter spammed in heroics.
If you are looking for something alittle different, there are a number of Korean/Asian MMO (most F2P), that have pet mechanics to them. And you would be playing the normal Warrior or tank classes, with an additional pet, either for DPS, heals, or more Tanking. The newest of which is Dragomon Hunter, currently in beta, but like I said there are many many more.
__________________________
"Its sad when people use religion to feel superior, its even worse to see people using a video game to do it."
--Arcken
"...when it comes to pimping EVE I have little restraints."
--Hellmar, CEO of CCP.
"It's like they took a gun, put it to their nugget sack and pulled the trigger over and over again, each time telling us how great it was that they were shooting themselves in the balls."
--Exar_Kun on SWG's NGE