Cannot decide between Warrior and Dark Knight

[Krissey]

I had a level 50 warrior on a different character and I loved the lore and the feel and theme of the class, and it looks even better at 52+

On the other hand, Dark Knight looks really interesting and competitive also.

I haven't tanked in this game in a long time, but I wouldn't mind giving it a go. I know first I need to level Glad to 34 regardless for cross class.

That said: what do you think?

Warrior or Dark Knight? Which is better for solo world roaming? Which is better for 4 man dungeons? Which is better for duty finder and no premades? What's better overall in terms of all aspects (Questing, FATE, Farming, Desireableness, Group Support, etc..)

[Eye_Gore]

If your not sure between Warrior and Dark Knight, then the choice is obvious, Paladin.

[Krissey]

I would never level Paladin and having to take Gladiator as far as 34 is almost a death sentence to leveling a tank at all but awareness is required.

[SpookyGhost]

I would never level Paladin and having to take Gladiator as far as 34 is almost a death sentence to leveling a tank at all but awareness is required.

I hope you're not talking about the skill.

[Kiteless]

On the other hand, Dark Knight looks really interesting and competitive also.

Interesting? Yes. Competitive? No, not really, sadly.

If you like the look and feel of what DRK has over WAR, go with that. But go in knowing that DRK is suffering from a lot of problems right now that really hold it back, and stop it from being viable for endgame content (but you should be able to get through 4 mans and basic story content just fine, you can do that with pretty much anything). While I have no doubt that these problems will be handled in time, right now, I wouldn't make the choice to play DRK based on viability.

[Morcavious]

And they're not AS behind as people here will have you believe. They certainly need a bit of help, but there's not as bad as 2.0 Warriors.

[Tila]

Just throwing this in there. One prime reason I gave up DRK for WAR is that their DPS rotation was just so mindless. At least with WAR we get abandon/uncontrollable and fel cleave, which is fun as hell.

That and in my own opinion, DRK suffers button bloat. They have lots of buttons and options, but none of them ever feel like they're doing much.

[Krissey]

Sounds like people are saying go with warrior. Also warrior seems straight forward. Keep up your buffs and debuffs, and you get one big single target and one big AOE move per stance and mitigate or pop cooldowns as needed.

The Dark Knight stances and Mana cooldowns and dark arts and so forth doesn't seem intuitive. It seems confusing and a little overwhelming, on paper anyway. I doesn't really make sense to me and I figured I would need to play it to get it.

[Tila]

Sounds like people are saying go with warrior. Also warrior seems straight forward. Keep up your buffs and debuffs, and you get one big single target and one big AOE move per stance and mitigate or pop cooldowns as needed.

The Dark Knight stances and Mana cooldowns and dark arts and so forth doesn't seem intuitive. It seems confusing and a little overwhelming, on paper anyway. I doesn't really make sense to me and I figured I would need to play it to get it.

I didnt find DRK overly complex. I just found that it had a lot of redundancies. Nothing had that "oomf" I've come to associate with tank classes in MMO. Just felt floaty and all over the place.

[Fendred]

Sounds like people are saying go with warrior. Also warrior seems straight forward. Keep up your buffs and debuffs, and you get one big single target and one big AOE move per stance and mitigate or pop cooldowns as needed.

The Dark Knight stances and Mana cooldowns and dark arts and so forth doesn't seem intuitive. It seems confusing and a little overwhelming, on paper anyway. I doesn't really make sense to me and I figured I would need to play it to get it.

There really isn't a whole lot to the dark knight's mp management. Darkside goes down in between trash pulls to let mana recover and during combat they can regain mana through their abilities. The mana drain is meant to enforce a rotation they intend dark knight's to do involving their mana recovery options. That being said, AoE can be problematic at times due to an already diminishing resource. With the right cooldowns its not a problem, though.