Viability of Lancer as a Tank?

[Shampooo]

Lancer can tank fine, but you need some cross class skills, which is the point of the Armoury system.

I can tank just fine with the proper Defense + HP armor and the Following cross-skills and traits:

Defender, Foresight, Featherfoot. Plus Jarring Strike, Fracture, Provoke/Taunt/Warmonger. And i mix a few more defensive abilities with some key lancer skills.

Then for traits equip Intimidate, Prime Conditioning, Driven by Faith and Complete Control (unless there is casters involved). I'd add Axemanship if i had it, for obvious reasons.

Then get a good thaumaturge to get transfer you DEF and EVA and you're set.


tl;dr : it's doable but requires some work and a good THM

Your tanking what fine with your 35 lancer? try tanking an nm...you'll break like glass, even with all those defense abilites from other classes. also you'll want defender II which is a mrd 50 ability at which point you'de just tank as mrd50 anyhow. =p