Beef between WAR and PLD tanks

[Akkirei]

Kitru. Where art thou? I'm sure you have a readily available document from which to copy and paste to correct the misinformation in this thread.

Kitru got permabanned from the forums recently.

[Marianno]

I ended this thread a while ago lol. Honestly, thank you everyone for your opinions and thoughts on the topic. It helps tremendously in knowing the small differences and strategies between both tanks and now I know, that I probably need to become a better WAR. Though, I'm not complaining at all about being OT, I do like playing MT but ultimately OT better lol (my opinion). Thanks again everyone for sharing your knowledge with me.

[Killabye]

i play pal 101 and war 102. i use the war when theres mobs and pali when i gotta stun but having run with equal tanks i think pali is better as mt and war as ot. for on pali has stronger single target aggro imo. i pull over wars and lose to palis of the same level. for heals again pali takes it. for ot buffs, you cant use all your combos as war without aggro problems early on so war as ot is easier for me at least. too bad it seems like it should be the opposite so you can IB with war but taking huge hits is dangerous on war

[randomrope]

There is no beef. Tanks have both leveled and equally geared. In your note. You were the problem. You were using your full enmity rotation when you shouldnt have been. Thats it. The OT's responsibility is to keep their hate #2. If you are taking it away you are being a bad OT. Watch the enmity meter. If you are taking hate you are being irresponsible.

There is no beef. You take whichever you feel like cause you keep them equally geared within 1 ilvl (cause of a shield).

[DishSoap]

I understand that WAR OT is good DPS for a tank and can pretty damn OP for a tank if played correctly.

Pretty sure PLD out damages WAR as an OT, Sword Oath is a bitch.

[Alphras]

The damage is about the same if the PLD does not have the Storm's Eye debuff from a WAR.

[Souljacker]

Last night a guildie and I went into t5 duty finder - we've both been stuck on it and are getting a FC group together to do it but figured hey, we're bored, why not. He went in on his ilvl 95 warrior and I on my i93 BLM. The self-appointed "leader" decided he couldn't be a main tank because he apparently "didn't have the acc" to main tank twin and hit from up front, so the paladin would be the main tank despite having slightly lesser gear (and I do mean it was only a slight difference. The paladin was geared very well, I'm not bashing the pld in any way).


It struck me as odd that the fear was an ilvl95 warrior couldn't keep threat on a fight with a minimum of i82. We just went with it despite the guy thinking the best way to teach people to stack was to number everyone's head and then tell the numbers to stay together and the playstation icons to stay together (distracting at best, causes you to not see important graphics over your head at worst) but I did get the feeling that for some reason, Paladin was just preferred and it had nothing to do with my friend's alleged lack of accuracy.

[TrivariumOri]

I did get the feeling that for some reason, Paladin was just preferred and it had nothing to do with my friend's alleged lack of accuracy.

But a warrior in T5 does make the better tank..

[Exstal]

Kitru got permabanned from the forums recently.

...for what? That seems ridiculous to perma ban one of the most interesting posters.

[TurboSol]

in the misquoted words of kitru, both tanks are ridiculously balanced.. that being said, equally geared: PLD is the "better" tank for sustained high damage mitigation, WAR is "better" for predictable burst damage mitigation. this is as MT.
as OT, I can't recall the exact thread where he broke down the #s, but both tanks can put out basically equal DPS


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