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Jesus. This is nice 
I donāt know if this is a sad thing to say or not but this is honestly the best thing thatās happened for me so far in 2020. Given how this year has been Iām sure im not the only one!
People said I was mad to keep this stuff lying around for 3 full years, well look at me now ma!
Sweet sweet music to my healer ears <3
I MIGHT GET TO HEAL AGAIN?!?
<insert all kinds of gifs showing excitement and happiness
Credit where credit is due ALL of this I sense was worth coming back for, donāt know about you lot but I feel a little excited 
Iām not against it (yet, havenāt seen the new tank style for each weapon), but, uhā¦ Iām not gonna be converting my dps gear to tank spec with reglyphing items, and unless dungeon loot changes a lot I donāt see myself making a full 2nd set of red 70 items (or for that matter, maxing out a 2nd set of hammer signets) since the first set has taken 3 years and is not done.And thereās really no ājust use yellow items for tankingā, a red item has nearly 2x the hp/protection on it.
So hopefully tanking in a full dps set still works fine.
Not to mention my inventory has 45 spots, taking up an extra 7-9 with tank gear seems badā¦
Maybe it bears clarification but, to do solo E16 content, I need dps gear (Dark Agartha, other stuff that already scales) so thereās just no future in me being āonly tankā
I think Nirvelle noted that there is a solution in place that tanks can do solo content effectively. How it will look we probably learn on friday.
Agree on gear part, tho Nirvelle assured that weāll be safe.
Nirvelle, NopemasterToday at 8:50 PM
The soloing problem has already been addressed. Internally testing has been good, with tank-geared players able to complete E17 Dark Agartha
Weāll have to wait couple days and see what happens on beta.
I have two questions.
I suppose thatās good for people who have tank gear, but Iām still sticking with ātank using dps itemsā. Iām not gonna mess with a gear set that works and hope I get it right before I run out of reglyphing items. Much easier to adjust my tank build to keep working than to adjust gearing.
Also have to correct myself, I went ingame to check what actual roles my talis are for, and Iām E15. With 1 heal 6 dps items, far as I can tell. (belt is sort of both tank/dps hammer, though)
So, in order to tank as before, I will have to change my glyphs and this will allow me to āsoloā as before. Hurray.
But will it allow me to ādpsā and heal as before in my all-purpose gear ? I sense the answer to that will be āhaha, of course notā.
Therefore, I strongly beliebe that this āinitiativeā will, in the end, lead to :
Edit by Melcom
Nope, this is where things are changing. There will be no āall-purposeā gear anymore.
Cui bono ? The process of leveling a set of gear in this game isnāt even remotely interesting enough to do it again.
This is also changing, and for the better. I can only invite you to see it yourself!
Letās say it in a different manner: in solo, youāll be able to get by with any type of gear. In group content, youāll have to choose whether you want to be a tank or a healer / dps, at least if you consider the highest available difficulty for your gear (like, E17). Referring to the difference in glyphing of course.
Unless you start working on a 2nd set of gear.
I guess you would not be surprised if i said this claim for TSW, right? You were certainly not able to do everything with 1 single set of gear. 
I could definitely manage all 3 roles with a single alternate item in TSW (8 total: head hp/dps, major hp/heal/dps, minor dps/dps/dps) if it had cost 6 months per item to add more to my inventory instead of ~a week. Addition of anima allocation and itād be trivial to do every role in dps gear. 3 year mark in SWL and I only have 5 talis maxed out. Iāve been subbed the whole time, although for the last 6 months I havenāt bothered opening loot crates cause thereās nothing new.
Unless they go full on changing the amount of damage mobs deal type rebalancing, I donāt see how they can make tank glyphs useful. They donāt prevent spikes as they did in TSW, cause thereās no boss dealing little enough damage for āspikeā to mean anything.
If they are rebalancing the actual damage dynamic, I hope they fix the other longstanding problem with group content, that itās set up to where you can win if you make no mistakes, and if you make any mistake (well, as tank/healer) you restart the 10 minute long encounter. Itās never been a good type of difficulty to make it take a very long time for anyone to win.
Two days. Speculate if you wish but Iām quite confident a lot of your concerns have been all ready addressed or will be taken into consideration during community testing.
What I will say however is that realistically you canāt compare SWLās and TSWās gearing system. It is meant to be very different even if only for the fact that gearing in SWL is a large part of the games revenue. Whether you agree with it or not thatās just the reality of the situation and it will always involve some level of grind because of this though I hear that there is intentions to reduce the degree of grind that is involved.
As for your last two paragraphs regarding your speculations on there ability to deal with the tanking meta I am at a loss for words. In fact, Iām not even sure if your talking about the same game cause most of that is either grossly exaggerated or just plain false.