Warrior tank (Button/Ability Overload)

[Marxam]

I feel Warrior is the lightest on the number of abilities compared to the other tanks, with about 32 buttons, not including extras like potions.

With an MMO mouse with 12 extra buttons, I'm able to map almost all of my abilities when using keys 1-6, Q, E, and Shift as a modifier.

One thing I like to do when learning a new job is put all my abilities on my hotbar right away, since the game does show you everything you will learn up to level 90. It gets me used to what I'll be pressing and I can adjust things later.

Its also probably the most well designed tank in EW atm. Everything in its tool kit just goes well together* (after the IR changes in 6.1). My only gripe is that primal rend doesn't overwrite IR, similar to how you have skills that can't be placed on the hotbar. Just a personal issue tbh but I hate the design of gcds that are only active after it's proc'd, meaning its a dead button until then. It just reminds me of shield swipe and to a lesser extent og DRK low blow.

All one min gcds should be tied to the skill that proc's it to reduce button bloat, ex, Confiteor, Contiuation, etc.

[ThorneDynasty]

Its also probably the most well designed tank in EW

It's really not. Just ludicrously overpowered in dungeon pulls and the most unchallenging burst window in the game excluding healers. It does have a place in the game as the simple tank job, but it's like calling the white bread the best cooked part of the meal in a 5-star restaurant. Even though the amount of butter is an overkill, if not borderline nauseating.