Muster in the Wardens Subforum

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ps...do most of you here know that yellow does not immediately mean being ranged? just as much as you can also use ranged gambits in red specc.

I actually use Assailment Stance (Ranged) in red-line sometimes. Probably not ideal, but it's still pretty fun.

1.) Defiant Challenge. This was our original (Actually useful!) panic-button. In its glory days it set mitigations to 90%, activated a damage reflect, and force-taunted an area for 10 seconds, at the cost of a long cooldown. I liked this version of it far more than what we have now. The current Defiant Challenge has made much of the original art of tanking obsolete as Defiant Challenge essentially must always be kept up for the mitigations and the aggro-lock. I guess what I'm saying is that the skill has become both mandatory and boring. A complex rotation of gambits has been replaced by a button. The old DC could prevent a raid-wipe if used cleverly as you could go from off-tank to God Mode and give the group time to recover. The new DC might need to be saved for a few more seconds to grab some adds, but generally you just need to remember to push it.

I would LOVE for something like the old Defiant Challenge to be added somehow. It actually required skill and some thought put into when to use that skill, because it could make the difference between surviving or dying in a fight.

I remember being able to solo Fornost: Wraith of Fire T2C back in the day, and I think there's some videos of it and other solo instances by Gorelal/Cornwollis (not sure if he is still playing). It was both some of the most fun and great challenge I've had in any MMO. When Defiant Challenge was changed to the new version, it killed a lot of the fun of LOTRO for me.

Maybe the old version was a bit OP, but it still would be great if a weaker version could somehow be added. The current Defiant Challenge sadly just feels like a spam whenever available skill.