Dark Knight or Warrior?

[rhett]

no need to blow a basket.

Did............did you mean gasket?

[Freyyy]

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Thank you Mr. NinjaEdit. That's smart of you to edit your post 2min before answering to me. The "+25% HP 11250" part was non existent the first time I read your answer. I'll just say that now with your edit, your maths are only showing that I'm completely right when I'm saying that Defiance = ShO in terms of effective HP. I'll never argue with you again, you're a troll.

[Martin_Arcainess]

Ah your welcome, well tec I should be called MR Rougedit, haven't got him up to 30 yet. Yeah I did add the % part later on but what else do you think the +25 HP was for? STR?

No, you're not completely right. WAR's benefits better from Adlo and Stone Skin then PLDs do due to their more healing and HP buff from Defiance. Don't forget that in terms of effectiveness \o and hey it was you who blew off your Gasket 1st not me.

Did I get the Gasket part right?

[SpookyGhost]

No, you're not completely right. WAR's benefits better from Adlo and Stone Skin then PLDs do due to their more healing and HP buff from Defiance.

PLD @ 14000 HP w/ ShO
WAR @ 17500 HP w/ Defiance

Both get a 10% Stoneskin

PLD @ 15400 eHP w/ ShO
WAR @ 19250 eHp w/ Defiance

Both take 1750 damage

WAR: 19250 - 1750 = 17500 (SS broken)
PLD: 15400 - 1400 (20% of 1750) = 14000 (SS broken)

Adlo same deal. In fact, with Convalescence PLD gets a stronger Adlo than WAR can. WAR's is stronger to spread with Deployment Tactics, though.

Basically PLD gets a smaller shield, but also takes less damage, so it evens out. They also receive slightly more effective healing with tank stance and receive more effective healing from healing abilities. Outside of tank stance, their healing received is the same and SS/Adlo work the same.

[Freyyy]

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I love you SpookyGhost. Was too tired to do the maths to explain something that has already been calculated almost two years ago.

[Lemuel81]

In order for you to determine which one to main, is going to be based on which one you enjoy more, which is why I think you really need to level them both up to find the answer. If you want someone to tell you what to play than I say go warrior (thats just my preference)

All tanks played well, are viable in current content.

Do you want to MT or OT?

[Isius]

@ OP I would go Warrior if you are enjoying it, most solid tank among the three tanks, and most future proof if you are going to raid with it, but Warrior does have a higher learning curve to fully optimize it, versus Drk.

Dark Knight is currently fine for everything ingame too, if you want to have that edgy feel.

But play whatever you like is more important.

[Fourbestintoner]

Glorious full str WAR master race.

[AeresSilverfox]

I am talking about alex savage here. If you are only going to focus on 1 tank and the choice is between DRK and WAR, then level DRK.
WAR is predominantly used as a off-tank. DRK is accepted for either role (though, if you are DRK, you will be MT most of the time).


If its casual content, you can level either. The content is easy enough that no one really cares which you are using.

[Syzygian]

Lol at anyone trying to say that WAR isn't mandatory for raids.

The tank hierarchy is as such:

1. WAR
2. WAR
3. WAR
4. WAR
5. DrK
786. PLD

WAR is the most complete tank in the game and has ZERO downsides. DrK is good but has flaws. If you are endgame raiding and looking for a static them go with WAR. If you are just casually playing then go with whatever feels the best.

At current gear levels (almost 15 ilvls overgeared from the i190 benchmark) no one tank is mandatory unless your group is bad. This guy can totally play whatever tank he wants and if he turns out to be skilled he'll get a group and clear content. What you do in your static is not the end-all-be-all strat, not even world 1st people make those claims.