How to make tanking fun.

I've been trying to get use to tanking in preperations for Gunbreaker. I've only been using PLD but even when OTing I'm bored out of my mind.

Any suggestions?

Play Dark Knight.

Get into DPS optimisation, like any class trying to stay aligned with raid buffs, snapshotting your dots ect. As OT try doing stuff like cover mitigating tank busts, paying attention to when raid wides happen and mitigating them with reprisal and other skills. In dungeons on things that arn't pally dropping tank stance in trash pulls to pump out dps can be pretty fun. I agree with the post above me though, despite drk having 1 dps combo, having high apm and thinking about best times to dump mana and gauge and build gauge to take advantage of buffs is quite fun.

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Originally Posted by Kabooa

Play Dark Knight.

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OP... there's your answer.

Play DRK. (3rded)

Seriously, it's a lot busier and more involved than PLD. I used to main PLD and switched to DRK ASAP.

While Paladin is the last MT in the current state... it’s the worst one to get used to tanking at all in the end... i would claim Drk as well.

Tanking is already fun.

Suggest that everyone in the group call you “Daddy”

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Originally Posted by Gramis

Suggest that everyone in the group call you “Daddy”

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This!!!

Everyone in my group calls me Daddy... And it is really fun.


Mind you though, I call my static's healer Daddy, otherwise she won't heal me. :(

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Originally Posted by Kaedan

Play DRK. (3rded)

Seriously, it's a lot busier and more involved than PLD. I used to main PLD and switched to DRK ASAP.

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Agreed. (4thed)

DRK is definitely more interesting. I lost interest in PLD pretty fast. I don't really know what they did to it, because I enjoyed it back in HW at lvl 60.