Shi Feng's voice was quiet, but it packed a punch — it nearly made the Priest's hand tremble, and her heal almost didn't go through.
The two MTs froze on the spot, caught clean by the half-orc's massive steel axe. Over four hundred points of damage popped up above each of their heads, and they stumbled back five or six steps before finding their footing.
The rest of the DPS teammates all stopped attacking, staring blankly at Shi Feng as if they'd misheard.
Swap out the MTs?
That had to be a joke. These two were among the guild's top three tanks — and he was casually suggesting replacing both of them? Were they asking for trouble?
If it were a matter of failing to hold aggro or losing threat, fine. But neither of these MTs had ever made such a mistake. What reason could there possibly be to swap them out?
"Did they do something wrong?" Chenmo Canjian asked.
MTs were the core of any team. A strong MT could make a dungeon run significantly easier, so you absolutely couldn't just swap them out on a whim.
"No." Shi Feng shook his head. These two MTs hadn't made any mistakes — but not making mistakes didn't make them good tanks.
Holding aggro steadily, tanking hits — in an ordinary virtual game, that was perfectly fine.
But the Divine Realm was different. Simply doing that wasn't enough.
"If there's no problem, why swap the MTs?" Chenmo Canjian furrowed his brow.
Both MTs were furious at this point, voicing their disagreement. Who did this outside consultant think he was, so arrogant that he could find fault with tanks as strong as them?
"Their evasion is way too poor. To put it bluntly, they take too much damage. When fighting a boss, even four Healers couldn't keep up with the healing. On top of that, their DPS is too low — in a boss fight, even a 1% HP difference can decide the outcome."
"I'm guessing that when you fought the first boss, besides insufficient DPS, your Healers probably ran out of mana too — and that's what led to the wipe," Shi Feng said with a smile.
Hearing this, the two MTs had nothing left to say…
Chenmo Canjian was also stunned — he'd never mentioned the cause of the wipe, yet Shi Feng had figured it out on his own.
With Shi Feng laying everything out so logically, Chenmo Canjian had to admit that some adjustments really were necessary.
"I wonder what you think we should do, Brother Yefeng? What kind of MTs do we need?" Chenmo Canjian asked earnestly.
The other members of the Assassin Alliance weren't fools either. They could see the reasoning, and their resentment softened, replaced by a measure of respect. Every one of them pricked up their ears, eager to hear Shi Feng's expertise.
"Simple. Find two Guardian Knights. For their free stat allocation, the best spread would be 2 Strength, 1 Agility, 2 Endurance. Ideally, both should have learned Guardian Aura and Strength Aura," Shi Feng said calmly.
Without anyone realizing it, Shi Feng had become the center of the team.
Before long, Chenmo Canjian found two Guardian Knights from the guild who fit the requirements. The problem was, their technique was average and their gear wasn't great either.
One was named Baiyu, with just over 1,700 HP. The other was named Shuibo, with a little over 1,800 HP. Their defense was also more than 200 points lower than the previous MTs' — not even in the same league.
But after Shi Feng looked over their gear, he decided it wasn't a big deal. The rest was a matter of skill. He went on to explain how to fight these Elite monsters and how to dodge their attacks. As for how much they could take from it — that depended on their own comprehension.