give royal authority enmity take stun off GCD and we in there
If you are a well equiped tank you can generate aggro wtih all 3 tanks just as well and not lose it. The ones who lose it doing something terribly wrong. Howerver If I had to bet on someone It would be DA. Many dps skill and tank stance at the same time along with 2 aoe aggro skills beside the single target ones. But let's not give the wrong impression here. Give love to all 3 tanks they are sexy equally with their own style. After all they are never enough are they?
Dark Knight is the better tank for pure 'In yo' face' emnity, lets have a looksie:
1. Got your standard emnity combo: Hard slash to spinning slash ect.
2. Can and SHOULD be tanking with Grit and Darkside on TOGETHER. Grit is your standard tank stance whilst Darkside is DPS. Dark increases damage by 15% whilst Grit lowers damage by 20% - Means DRK can pump more deeps than the other tanks when MTing. Damage = Emnity.
3. Unlike the other two tanks, DRK has 2 major emnity aoe generators which can be used freely: Unleash at level 8 and Abyssal Drain at 56, the second uses slightly more MP but does more damage and shares the same gcd. Not using AD for endgame dungeons? Git gud.
4. Salted Earth = AoE you can place manually - damage = emnity.
5. Mutha beepin' Dark Arts!
Drk wins.
With a good healer and dps I can pull the the mob groups from the first 2 Ixal (can't remember their names.) and keep hate (with at most maybe 2 getting away from me.) this is about probly 10 mobs.
Use darkarts dark drive to lower their acc use blood price save carve and spit for mp regain only use cd 1 at a time to stretch it out use darkarts absyildrain spam gives great hp back on a big pack of mobs. Not to mention it gives hate on all it hits.
DRK on single, WAR on group. WAR would beat a PLD in single too though.
I wish PLD's shield/sword oath were offGCD
With Same gear, Provoke noting being use.
My wife says if she cares she can normally steal hate from any tank in 8/24 content.
She plays Warrior, It's all about pushing herself. Which unless content requires it she doesn't care to do. She sooner OT jump in with a protect if needed. Why fight over hate.
Generally when multiple tanks of any type are fighting for aggro, they all tend to generate an equal amount of hate with the entire party.
Id like to see it put to the test. I have leveled PLD and DRK, my PLD is still lvl 51, my DRK is 60 and in ALEX Normal gear. As i was leveling them I found it much easier to keep hate with the DRK by FAR.. No matter if it was 1 mob or 10.
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