Newish tank how bonus stats

[Causality]

Make sure you level a GLD to at least 22 to get Provoke. (You need 15 GLD anyway to turn your MRD into a WAR) Its your Taunt and considered a must have for both WAR and DRK. Getting the GLD to level 34 will also get you Awareness which will abolish Critical Hits on yourself. It will be useful when you hit level 56 Warrior and get a Defensive cool-down that parry's everything in front of you at the expense of getting critically hit on the sides.

[MagiusNecros]

Thank you, sorry for being blind.
Last Noob question, trying to focus DRK once it becomes available. Any benefit at all to uping piety for a higher mana pool?

Don't bother with Piety. Unless DRK can get 12k MP it won't matter.

[Jpec07]

Make sure you level a GLD to at least 22 to get Provoke. (You need 15 GLD anyway to turn your MRD into a WAR) Its your Taunt and considered a must have for both WAR and DRK. Getting the GLD to level 34 will also get you Awareness which will abolish Critical Hits on yourself. It will be useful when you hit level 56 Warrior and get a Defensive cool-down that parry's everything in front of you at the expense of getting critically hit on the sides.

I'd actually argue to get GLD to 34 for Awareness, as it has some really nice synergy with anything that increases your parry rate (because of how parry works, any parry cooldown will become more effective when you use it with Awareness (not to mention the ~5% mitigation it offers by itself). Raw Intuition, Dark Dance (without Dark Arts), and Bulwark are all amplified substantially when coupled with Awareness, so it is very worth taking, in my opinion

[Noxifer]

I'd actually argue to get GLD to 34 for Awareness

Which was what Causality already said o.o

Getting the GLD to level 34 will also get you Awareness which will abolish Critical Hits on yourself. It will be useful when you hit level 56 Warrior

It's just that Provoke is vital (due to primals and raid bosses with tank swap mechanics), whereas Awareness has "nice synergy", as you put it =) And no, nulling crits on yourself doesn't automatically make any parry cooldown better -- unless all parry cooldowns have "automatic crits if attacked from flank/behind" ^^; (I only know the WAR one, which has that)

[SpookyGhost]

And no, nulling crits on yourself doesn't automatically make any parry cooldown better -- unless all parry cooldowns have "automatic crits if attacked from flank/behind" ^^; (I only know the WAR one, which has that)

Actually, nullifying crits does help with parry/block cooldowns, as crits are checked before parries/blocks. This means that during RI you can still be crit, unless you also have Awareness going. It helps with Dark Dance as well, but to a lesser extent (ie you get all the increased parry rate returns without having to worry about any of them being overwritten by a crit). Bulwark/Sheltron same thing.

[Noxifer]

Actually, nullifying crits does help with parry/block cooldowns, as crits are checked before parries/blocks. This means that during RI you can still be crit, unless you also have Awareness going. It helps with Dark Dance as well, but to a lesser extent (ie you get all the increased parry rate returns without having to worry about any of them being overwritten by a crit). Bulwark/Sheltron same thing.

Yeah, I forgot the whole "crits cannot be parried" thing ^^; Sorry.

[Dergensaur]

Thanks for everyone being so supportive. Just saying it looks like If I stick with warrior or do dark knight i'll have to level both either monk and paladin or paladin and warrior really high anyhow for the cross class skills, Not sure why pretty much ALL the vital tank skills are buried in paladin and not warrior at all. Oh well though. Figure my warrior will have to be 50 for a whiles before I can even get dark knight, while leveling to that point do I need to get provoke before then?

[fm_fenrir]

Not sure why pretty much ALL the vital tank skills are buried in paladin and not warrior at all.

Gladiator (and eventually paladin) are the easiest of the tanks to play, so the skills that matter are assigned to that class with the assumption new players will play that first, instead of struggling with marauder/warrior for 50 levels not having access to stuff like Provoke, Awareness, or Convalescence.

Also, yes, you want Provoke tout suite. It's the most useful skill in your arsenal for grabbing mobs that run away from you, or performing tank swaps, or pulling things that are out of range of your normal ranged pull.

[Ultimatecalibur]

Yeah, it's probably just confusing wording. I guess they could've just said "for damage", though, so it's weird they decided to specify "physical".

I suspect it may be a translation mistake. If the "attack power" stat is known as "physical damage" in JP then someone doing a quick patch note translation could easily make such a mistake. Similar things have happened before.

[Darkstride]

Appologizing if I sound extremely stupid, just found it hard to believe most classes essentially put all their bonus points into one attribute without variant

That's unfortunately just how this game works. The bonus stats are a false sense of customization. You're given a choice to send them, but you really only have one best stay to allocate them to.