Im Thinking of makeing a tank and i want too know why if i should pick a war compared to a pally or something. Please post your thoughts on this and also include what i should put into this class. (str/AC stuff like that)

Warrior is King of tanks on Raids and High end Mobs. Pick warrior if you want to MT raids one day.

Pally is better then warrior in most single group sititutions and vs undead mobs. Pick pally if you perfer group play most of the time. Altho some Pally's have been know to MT raids but that's far and few in between.

SK is likely the best soloer and best choice for a puller of the 3 (pally is second with their paci-pulls which dont work too well on most mobs at 70). SK's function well in groups also placing 2nd in my opion to pallys. SK's can snare and also add mana to the group's casters. Sk is also the most likely three that can survive if group wipes (by FDing). Pick SK if you like to solo or fd pulling with your tank. I have never heard of a SK MTing a raid but I could be wrong.

As for stats the most important for tanks are Agility and Stamina. I found that for me, Stamina will be maxed by gear before agility but dont really matter what you put your points in since gear will makeup all the differences.


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just so you know the sk thats main assist that fd's to avoid a wipe is the sk that goes on almost everyones ignore list. use it only to pull, being the tank normally means you die first, so please, keep up the sk image its really been getting tarnished by some bad people lately

HAHAHAAA

/Pokes Warriors

Before making this big important decision, I would like to remind everyone that Taunt, which is really the only major downfall of Warrior's, is going to be fixed. SOE has indeed found out it's broken (Finally), and it will be fix'd.

So, if your looking for the Toughest, hardest hitting, call of challenging (Yes, Warrior's can stop runner's at level 70 now), and able to fight MULTIPLE MOBS at once..... You might want to reconsider. Warrior's have unresistable AE taunt, Pally's don't, Sk's can but go SPLAT! When playing a warrior, you don't worry about pulling, you just shoot an arrow and yell "COME OVER HERE!!!" and take them ALL ON!!

/Pokes Necrophobe BACK! (Oops, I thought you were FD, your really dead, lol)

Any toon can be played badly, SK's do not hold the monopoly in that. Stick to your strengths, in this case your own character and how you play.

I would agree that with two tanks, its fine as long as the other tank knows and is building up his agro before you do it, I know the few times I have been in a group and had two tanks, I switch to low agro weps and try to avoid any type of hate. if the MT fd'd I would still have to run around to grab agro from the chanter or casters. SK's (in my opinion) have the best generation of hate in the game, therefore groups can chain nuke and do faster damage. As far as if everyone else is dead, yes I see no issue with FD, of course I would be very curious what led up to the whole group being dead(like I said I think SK's hold the best agro)except the tank. As far as no heals coming your way, being the reason you fd, I have died because of phantom afk's on healers before, and all everyone in the group did was laugh and say its ok. I survived long enough to get the mob to 40% and it ran at 20 so everyone else survived. after hearing everyone joking about it as no big deal, I would have to agree with you FD'ing on that group would have been very satisfying.

I have seen an sk FD during poj trials at 20% the heal hit at the same time as the FD (seems he only had 6.5khp at lvl 65 fully buffed, and said he had 9k, was very noticable), and not come back till we finished (had to pet tank the mobs to death). believe you me, I have no doubts at all that there are people who play every toon badly, thats all my post was meant to say was to not use fd as an I will always survive my groups tool.

please see post above yours, where I try to make it a little more clear, what I am talking about with reference that it did happen to me. When it did happen I was on my Mag ( I play a Mag (70) and a War (69) I play whats needed more often than insisting on being one or another). And no, I don't think that either makes me qualified to tell an SK how to play thier toon. but. I don't like to pet tank on my mag unless I am soloing. It is very dificult to control agro, with a pet, especially if you didn't know you where going to have to do it until tank drops to the floor(earth pet can hold agro best, but I never group with anything but my air pet). That was not meant to be an SK sucks post. It was someone asking about making a toon, and a prior post sounded like it was incouraging sk's to fd in order to survive thier group, my advise was that an SK who does that will go on peoples do not invite list. And as far as Wars pulling go, I only do that if the group insists, since I have no way to seperate mobs and AE taunt takes quite awhile to reset. I am not claiming Wars are better than SKs (well except for raid tanking, but thats what I have always been told). Feel free to flame whenever you want, usually I will try to clarify. Now I will SHUT THE F#$@ UP.

That was an attack. No where did I say this was an acceptable practice for any SK to follow.

Nothing less then apology will change my perception of you bashing my class for the pure purpose of making yours appear superior. Type any excuse you wish. I didnt start it.

btw, you will not find in any post where I have bashed Warriors. I actually think they rock, and have defended them on SOE boards.

Edited, Thu Dec 15 18:41:03 2005 by Necrophobe