I remember the time, 5 years ago, when i started my guardian tank adventure.
I wanted to be a good guardian tank and focus only on stopping damage and protecting the people who shared the adventure with me. Killda was born.
I did not know anything, so I started to look out for any fellow models, anyone who was already experienced using shields. And this is when i found Arach. I started to observe and take example from him, he was a great source of inspiration in my shield tank adventure.
I started to develop, and finally, I managed to see my first rewards when could hold and stay alive quite long against various adversaries.
Over the time, the Nodiatis God put several obstacle in front of me and my fellow shield users...
Mobs and Boss of the wilderness started to Enrage and Berserk, so they could finally kill tanks.
Our fellow Casters adversaries using direct damage became able to pierce through shields with Raze.
Our fellow Casters adversaries using damage over time became able to ignore shield completely.
Our fellow warriors using melee 2h weapons now were able to do massive opening damage with weighted.
Our fellow Archers friends received huge damage bonus first with Megacrits, and later with Aerial Dominion, without forgetting the occasional shaft of death
Even our small damage ability to deflect or reflect damage was stopped as our fellow friends got blessed by self preservation and Self Reflection.
When fighting for glory in arena or in duels, damage bonus was introduced in order to stop tanks from fighting until their last breath for 10 minutes blocking, parrying and preventing the flow of damage that they were being delivered.
And recently, Our fellow warriors friends got blessed with Quadrakills, allowing them to cut a big portion of HP from those who tries to keep it to its maximum.
I must have forget which other hits shield users took, but this is of no importance...
It is true that Nodiatis God has also helped us in our little shield tank adventure providing more agility, contravention and more HP, but that was given to everyone and it has been made very difficult to obtain.
He also helped us bash for more ... 300 instead of 100, Hurray, i was feeling strong.
He Gave us the ability to remove all Damage Over Time with sacred defender ... but we could only use this every 2 minutes.
Our Testudo got bigger .... but, rightfully, does not last very long ..
I remember the time Killda was born and started his tank adventure, no mater what happened along the line, no matter how hard the Nodiatis God hit him with his mighty powers, he did what a tank does best, he took the hits, brushed it away, and moved on.
No matter what happened in the past, no matter how hard were the hits, i have always stood up after the fall, I adapted according to the situation. I have always been a tank, and no mater how hard will the hits be in the journey in front of me I will always remain a tank.
Even the mighty Nodiatis God, cannot defeat a true tank spirit.
Killda
Beast Quadrakill
It also means, we die more, and more people can get 100% bonus, which, IIRC, a few of you above posters were complaining about not getting 100% all the time. Hypocrites!
