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Hi,

Im looking for opinions and facts that tell me wich tank is the best tank?

warrior? Pally? SK?


I recently made a sham/Sk , ive just now go them equiped and plan to start the duo tonight.

But wich is the best tank? For agro reasons i would say sk or pally before warrior. But i hear many people sware by the warrior in the high end game for raids and ext...

Let me know what you think, and why =P

Best is soo subjective it's impossible to give any sort of valid answer unless you give us more prescise terms as to how to define "best".

Best snap aggro?
Best damage mitigation?
Best at holding aggro?
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However based on the original discussion of a DUO in this case...

A Shaman/SK duo can be real strong.

The shaman supports the tanks with buffs heals and dots.

The SK provides a pretty solid meat shield especially with support and the SK has taps dots and DD plus a pet for even more DPS.

Both players can DPS and heal the SK tank. Plus SK has snare and shaman has slow!

Between the two you have almost everything you would want in a full 6 person group.

Don't sweat the small stuff over which tank is better, you are not going to be running a duo raid.

The best tank in WWII was the PanzerV.
Best tank in the 50's was imho the Centurion.
In the 60s and 70 the diff editions of the M63 though the Leopard was very good as well.
Best tank today is the M1Ambrams.


OH wait you said in the game. Only one class can tank at all levels and that is the warrior. Pal and Sk lose some edge when tanking in the 60s and 70. Before that they are very good at getting aggro.

war dps > sk dps.

are you going to be doing any high end raids with these 2 toons? you will not be 2 boxing if you are, or at least i would hope you would not.

as for a 2box pally or sk would both work great with the shammy.

my choice would be SK due to their ability to single pull plus the higher DPS and the pet is just one long DoT during the fight.

the pally has the advantage of REZ.

the warrior is the better HIGH level tank, and definatly would not go on several raids without a warrior as the MA, but have been on enough raids with a SK or even a Pally as the MA and been just fine.

also keep in mind in the mid levels (anything sub 60s) a warrior is not that much better then a knight at anything. knights have things that a warrior can only dream of at those levels. post 60th a warrior start to really outshine the knights in major tanking jobs, but still lacks the slows, dots, heals, and rez of the knights.

for a pure duo, stick with the combo you have. you will be happy.

quotes like this amuse me.

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Best post so far. One slight correction though. I think elorian knows but just didnt explain good enough :P mby not everyone else knows though so I will explain.
Warriors are by far the best MAIN tanks for BOSS mobs on raids. Knights are better tanks on raids when it comes to some circumstances on raids. Clearing trash is one of thoose circumstances because of their snapagro. MTing adds on draygun is another circumstance they are good at because DPS has to kill adds fast so once again knights are great for their snapagro.

I would pick a SK cause they get to do alot. They are good at raidpulling and they can MT bossmobs to. Heck, when a druid can MT Hanvar in CoA im pretty sure a SK can aswell :P
Warriors gets more glory though because they are better at taking a beating hands down.

Warrior. They can take the most punishment and can hold more than enough agro.

Of course, it depends on what you want.. for a raid, for a group, for partial group, for solo.. but, all in all, the tank position, when you ask is "which is best", is to be put to the extreme. Warriors can take punishment that knights can't. If you tried to substitute a knight for a Warrior in conditions in which the Warrior just barely survives, the knights are dead and the raid wipes.

This said, knights are still great characters. Just, keep in mind, they're "hybrids" for a reason. They CAN tank.. but this isn't all they can do. As a trade off for this, their tanking ability isn't up to a class whose main purpose in existence is to tank.

In all seriousness, who tries to be serious these days?

Oops.

Having played an SK and a Warrior (can't bring myself to play a 'good guy', lol) I can say that, from a first person perspective, I far prefer the warrior as a main tanking toon. While I may not be able to snare or add a little dps with a pet, what I can do is stand there and not have to worry about haivng to Tap the mob to try and stay alive or get a spell off to hold agro better.

When grouped with my SK I was forever concerened with my HP bar and mitigating it's decent towards purple. As a warrior (and I'm not uber - ~11k hp and ~1600 AC buffed) I know that I can take a beating and when backed up by the Aude healing chain I never look at my HP bar unless I'm engaging multiple targets and we are in a near wipe situation... even then, I'm only looking to see how long the rest of the group has to get the heck out of dodge before I become a pile of green goo and can't protect them anymore. "Guys, zone, gate, FD or do what you gotta do to get safe, now!" Unless there's a porter/ succor caster with us, then I'm looking out of morbid curiosity to see if I'm gonna make it out with them or get a quick trip to bind.

Tangential anecdotes aside, a warrior within a reasonable level range compared to the mobs you are engaging and reasonably geared for their level and the content that you are dealing with > SK or Pally as a tank.

The key point here, I think, is how you define tank.

If you mean damage sponge and agro holder then you can't beat a warrior.

If you mean someone that can stand out and keep the casters from getting hit long enough to kill the mob, most meleer's can do that job with varying degrees of success for some period of time without sucking too much healing mana. Monk and rangers can be tankalicious... never underestimate their sneaky little ways =)

If you mean someone that can grab snap agro off of another toon, then Pally or SK is the obvious choice. But the ability to absorb, mitigate and withstand damage and still remain standing to keep the fight going is the domain of the warrior.

Warriors have some ability to manage agro but snap agro is not our forte.
Holding agro and remaining standing is. <-- That is my definition of the best tank.