User blog comment:Care Level/Let's Talk about Melee v. Ranged./@comment-14874017-20140728192626/@comment-1330314-20140728200935

I think fighters are actually the reason tanks aren't seen often nowadays. Tanks specialize in tankiness, crowd control and, sometimes, utility, but we have a whole set of fighters who, in addition to being as tanky as tanks and offering similar amounts of CC, are also capable of dealing a lot more damage. Tanks themselves are mostly fine, but are overshadowed by fighters. Both classes are more or less balanced, technically speaking, but the stat overload on fighters means they're capable of doing more on average, including things that tanks should be doing best, which is why there's a lot of overlap between tanky bruisers (e.g. or ) and proper tanks.