Quote Originally Posted by Zarvlad View Post
Lancer can tank fine, but you need some cross class skills, which is the point of the Armoury system.

I can tank just fine with the proper Defense + HP armor and the Following cross-skills and traits:

Defender, Foresight, Featherfoot. Plus Jarring Strike, Fracture, Provoke/Taunt/Warmonger. And i mix a few more defensive abilities with some key lancer skills.

Then for traits equip Intimidate, Prime Conditioning, Driven by Faith and Complete Control (unless there is casters involved). I'd add Axemanship if i had it, for obvious reasons.

Then get a good thaumaturge to get transfer you DEF and EVA and you're set.


tl;dr : it's doable but requires some work and a good THM

If you are going to go that far and say that Lnc can tank if you have all that then you might as well just say that Cnj and Thm can tank too by using the def up while casting trait and casting speed up trait and spamming Stoneskin all day while another Cnj/Thm heals/stoneskins as well.

One might even be able to tank better as say a Archer by just kiting mobs all day with slows, binds, and stuns. Ok well that isn't necessarily tanking since it is kiting but still it would probably be more effective then a Lnc tank.