Of all the 4 tanks right now, how would you stack them against each other?

[RyuDragnier]

DRK.. I won't comment on DRK other than to say, if I did play it, I probably wouldn't like it too much. I spent some time arranging a new hotbar and messing around with on the dummy, but imo I'm just going to stay away from it.

Play it, you may find yourself surprised. This is coming from the fact I've seen more than a few people disliking how it looks, only to play it and enjoy it.

[Dalmacus]

In terms of playstyle

GNB
PLD
WAR
DRK

In 2.0 i main PLD because rage of halone was so cool at that time i decided to drop SCH/MNK to tank for the first time in a MMO. Then 3.0 hit and i've been a DRK/PLD so total i have about 6 years worth of tanking experience. Tanks should and always be Emnity generation and defensive ability first before DPS. So by going from the definition

PLD is still supreme in MT or ST/OT role. Warrior is still warrior, big numbers coming from fell cleave what not to like?. GNB i am having tons of fun with this new tank as it requires the player to be constantly on his/her toes hitting every button you possibly can either to DPS or mitigate. This is the kind of playstyle i wanted in DRK but oh well.

DRK i have leveled to 80 and it's soooo boring to me now it's like such a braindead job. For DRK if i get to pick i rather go back to 4.X DRK playstyle instead. I rather be spamming dark arts than this boring playstyle.

[DeWinter1]

From what i have seen so far i would go something like that:

PAL
WAR
GNB
DRK

I have only played WAR so far, started leveling PAL, feels nice, dmg should be amazing at 80. Gunbreaker and Darkknights seems weaker to me, mostly because of there strange cooldowns.

[NealSnow]

DRK i have leveled to 80 and it's soooo boring to me now it's like such a braindead job. For DRK if i get to pick i rather go back to 4.X DRK playstyle instead. I rather be spamming dark arts than this boring playstyle.

How is it braindead exactly? You have bloodgauge to watch, mp, hp, defensive cd's, and split, plunge, abyssal drain, salted earth, blood weapon, living shadow, and dark missionary.

That doesn't include also watching out for mechanics. I get if you don't find it fun but saying braindead is hyperbolic.

[kidalutz]

PLD, GNB DRK WAR

War has a stronger enmity generation than gunbreaker but it suffers some drawbacks such as feeling unweildy.

Gunbreaker is fun and fast it suffers from having three physical defensive CD (Always have rampart on my bars) but only 1 Magical defensive CD Personally I'd make the longer colddown both magical and physical but drop the mitigation to 25% for the same amount of time.

PLD really is tops in everything aside from the weird combo setup now.

and DRK is always fun to play almost as much as GNB is

[TheForce]

How is it braindead exactly? You have bloodgauge to watch, mp, hp, defensive cd's, and split, plunge, abyssal drain, salted earth, blood weapon, living shadow, and dark missionary.

That doesn't include also watching out for mechanics. I get if you don't find it fun but saying braindead is hyperbolic.

I don't want to assume but I think he might mean is that it's brainless relative to its past iterations, which is completely true. I've spent a good amount of time with this new DRK and it's clear that you just don't have as many tools/options as you used to. The class just feels very, very scripted now, which I personally find extremely boring and unsatisfying. Objectively speaking though, its performance isn't too bad, and The Blackest Night is still a great move. But, I just think that they really went overboard when they tried to make DRK more "accessible", it feels absolutely nothing like DRK anymore.

But that's just my 2¢ anyway.

[Tila]

Not sure why people keep rating WAR above DRK when WAR is quiet literally just DRK but with less to pay attention to and do. I get that not everyone likes the change, but that doesn't make WAR any less boring.

[RatCopter]

It's pretty clear PLD is hands down the best tank, considering it has both the most utility and the most damage like if a RDM arbitrarily did more damage than a BLM.
And its pretty funny to me that, as boring as it is, people are defining DRK more on Delirium than in TBN. That thing is HUGE

[OmegaSinX]

Wow, I'm surprised so many people rated PLD as #1. I haven't touched it since the beginning of 4.0: Inner Realease is too damn fun. After looking at PLD skills on the job guide, makes me want to pick up the sword and board and try it out.

[gumas]

^just remember than when people said #1 for PLD is that PLD has the best overall tank quality. if you are looking for pure damage i think WAR GNB and DRK still doing better, though i dont know which one is better from those three.