Quote Originally Posted by Krr View Post
This is wrong - the the stated tanking styles of the three tanks in the Letter From The Producer is warriors as having more MT damage, Paladins as having superior physical defense, and Dark Knights as having superior magical defense. It's also implied that their OT DPS should be comparable to Warrior's if someone is providing a slash debuff. Of course, right now, that's all DRK does when offtanking, if a Monk is present.

The big takeaway here is that MTing has a decent, if deeply fragile and tenuous balance between all three tanks, and OTing is so hilariously dominated by Warrior (despite obvious attempts to diversify it with DRK joining the game and paladin's new toys that can be used while OTing) due to their irreplacable extra utility and ridiculously good DPS.
Or if you just don't need Delirium.

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Pld+Drk is just not a good setup.

It's either..

Pld+War
Drk+War
War+War (ALL the damage)

War = everything and more(inb4 pridewarriors come to defend their position), even trumping Paladins in the MT department with skilled IB usage and stance dancing, and are equivalent, if not better than Drk as MT in magic fights, with a Pld as the off tank. Pld SoO DPS is good, people need to stop undermining it. And then there's the support as OT they offer in Divine Veil, the only STR down in the game (If it's applicable for example with physical auto attacks), Cover (Same deal as STR down), and Clemency, which by the way when used on a Warrior MT, in defiance, has a 180% overall effectiveness (200% with Cov.), because Clemency is modified by Defiance. Meaning that is one HELL of a heal on the warrior (11k+ easily), and 50% of that returned to the Paladin. Throw Stoneskin in there too because Stoneskin is amazing when it's timed correctly.

Pld and War are simply in sync with one another so damn well, it'd be amazing if they were still the only 2 tanks. But Drk is in the mix now, and doesn't exactly make up in what you lose by replacing either of the two older tanks. They're the odd tank out, they don't synergize at all with anyone or anything other than a slashing resist debuff that they need in order to do anything close to the DPS a Warrior can do. They give you nothing in return for choosing one over a War or a Pld, and that is the main problem.