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The name Tank was chosen because it clearly communicates the role in commonly used MMO vernacular. There are no immediate plans to rename the Tank archetype.

From a tank perspective, why did I name the tank "tank"? There's a few reasons: One is that there are obviously elements of the tank role that could be considered as different types of names like, Guardian or Steward or whatever. There's things that you could do that but I feel like tank as a vernacular has become embedded within MMO/fantasy players and they use it interchangeably even if the class name was like Guardian or whatever. I feel even though in that scenario players would still refer to it as a tank like in normal conversation with each other, "Oh we need a tank for this fight." – Steven Sharif

Élő adás, 2023-01-27 (1:30:50).

Podcast, 2021-09-29 (24:18).