Shadowskin and Shadow Wall

[Timat]

Seems kind of...odd to have two flat damage reduction skills on two separate timers.

I mean dont get me wrong extra tanky CDs are great and all, but seems kinda wired having "click this to take less damage" and "click this to take LESSER damage" as two separate skills.

[Lorielle]

Seems kind of...odd to have two flat damage reduction skills on two separate timers.

I mean dont get me wrong extra tanky CDs are great and all, but seems kinda wired having "click this to take less damage" and "click this to take LESSER damage" as two separate skills.

Rampart and Sentinel.

[Delorean]

which are also bland and notoriously uninteresting =P

[BlueThunder]

Rampart and Sentinel.

Except Shadow Wall is a less powerful Sentinel but with the same duration and Cooldown.

[Reynhart]

Except Shadow Wall is a less powerful Sentinel but with the same duration and Cooldown.

It's note about the effectiveness, but the whole :

seems kinda weird having "click this to take less damage" and "click this to take LESSER damage" as two separate skills.

[DSaint]

Haha. Welcome to Tank world, my friends!

[Syfer22]

Basically, one is "Huh... Damage seems to be a bit heavy. Let me mitigate that a bit" while the other is "Oh snap, big hit incoming. I better take some of the bite out!" Judgment call since one has less benefit but longer duration and shorter cooldown, to be used more often and the other is more for emergency or when you know you're going to take a lot of damage.

I also like to use Shadowskin when I need to regen MP -- Pop Shadowskin, drop Grit, pop Blood Weapon, regen my MP, then have Grit up by the time Blood Weapon and Shadowskin wear off. Healers never know the difference.

[Faytte]

Welcome to being a tank. When the bosses do a move that can one shot you without a cooldown every 40 seconds or so, you will be thankful for more damage reducing cooldowns.

[SnakeX21]

I think its great. Backup CD if things start getting a little crazy.