Best SB Tank?

[Venjenz]

Vengeance. Raw Intuition. Thrill of Battle. If you're using Defiance then you have access to the most versatile defensive CD in the game, Inner Beast. Dunno how this meme of "WAR has next to no defensive CDs" still exists.

Toss Infuriate, Equilibrium and Holmgang in there. I have plenty of defensive CDs on my WAR, and with the healers I get sometimes in DF roulette...I am well versed in using most of them. =)

[bswpayton]

[QUOTE=Venjenz;4156650]Toss Infuriate, Equilibrium and Holmgang in there. I have plenty of defensive CDs on my WAR, and with the healers I get sometimes in DF roulette...I am well versed in using most of them. =)
well thats if you are tankin in tank stance, the way it looks now is that bloodbath is gone, so if u are in deliverance you only have thrill as a self heal, and would have to be in tank stance to use equilibrium for the heal, and use inner beast. I consider the lost of bloodbath on warrior main tank as a major nerf for mt, I just dont feeel that rampart is gona do as much justice as bloodbath will. Pali on the other hand it seems that with clemency only cost about 1040 mp and yosi had 7080 mp so it seems that pali will have much better self healing than warrior moving forward

[Stormfur]

Toss Infuriate, Equilibrium and Holmgang in there. I have plenty of defensive CDs on my WAR, and with the healers I get sometimes in DF roulette...I am well versed in using most of them. =)

Sorry, I meant to imply with Stormblood coming out, some of those might disappear.

[EdwinLi]

Block has been changed in SB so that it also blocks Magic attacks so Paladin now can block both Magic and Physical attacks along with Paladin is also getting a Defense boost to have Higher Defense than Warrior and Dark Knight in both Magic and Physical Defense.

This change is made to make Paladin focus on being the Heavy Defense Tank.

[Kethic]

Excellent. This was the conversation I wanted to see. Personal Biases are welcome and encouraged.

Currently:

WAR - 5
PLD - 7
DRK - 4

I suspect I'll end up with PLD, since it matches with my WHM / Gatherer Main persona, but I'm still interested in hearing other peoples choices and why.

edit: also, yeah, what's up with the wings? everyone should be behind the boss, yes?

[Vaer]

Excellent. This was the conversation I wanted to see. Personal Biases are welcome and encouraged.

Currently:

WAR - 5
PLD - 7
DRK - 4

I suspect I'll end up with PLD, since it matches with my WHM / Gatherer Main persona, but I'm still interested in hearing other peoples choices and why.

edit: also, yeah, what's up with the wings? everyone should be behind the boss, yes?

It's probably just for boss ultimates (it honestly feels like what they wanted Divine Veil to be, wouldn't be surprised if it was a reworked Divine Veil), or the PLD themselves can just face the other way and use it to turn it around or move themselves. According to an unofficial translation it also increases block rate to 100% with a 2min cooldown, so could be used for mass pulls if you have solid hate. Who knows.

I'll probably play them all, gotta get all them mounts.

WAR finally got a charge, been waiting for that, too bad it uses IB gauge.

[Atreides]

I'll stick with Warrior because, I always enjoyed the damage they dish out but also their overall theme.
Time to unleash that inner beast now in Stormblood!

I'm happy that PLD finally get some love after that whole magic damage ordeal they went through in Heavensward.

[Maero]

War here for me also.
We will see what the changes bring and can decide then.
I will level tanks after my dps though

[Venjenz]

well thats if you are tankin in tank stance, the way it looks now is that bloodbath is gone, so if u are in deliverance you only have thrill as a self heal, and would have to be in tank stance to use equilibrium for the heal, and use inner beast. I consider the lost of bloodbath on warrior main tank as a major nerf for mt, I just dont feeel that rampart is gona do as much justice as bloodbath will. Pali on the other hand it seems that with clemency only cost about 1040 mp and yosi had 7080 mp so it seems that pali will have much better self healing than warrior moving forward

One, stances switch. I can tank in Deliverance and if I need a Defiance based CD, I swap to Defiance. You don't currently lose your stacks. Not sure how SB will deal with all that, but I doubt WAR are just getting straight nerfed on defense, while PLD are getting buffed on both offense and defense.

Two, until premade 8/24, most tanking occurs in tank stance, at least in the places where defensive CDs are needed, and then the switch mentioned above occurs. I do stance dance, but in the spots where I know defensive CDs will be needed, chances are good I'll already be in Defiance when the need arises. I'll grant that on those encounters where Deliverance can be used almost the entire time, the defensive stuff is way less, but those fights don't tax defense anyway.

Point being, WAR have plenty of defense if they want it.

[Atreides]

One, stances switch. I can tank in Deliverance and if I need a Defiance based CD, I swap to Defiance. You don't currently lose your stacks. Not sure how SB will deal with all that, but I doubt WAR are just getting straight nerfed on defense, while PLD are getting buffed on both offense and defense.

Two, until premade 8/24, most tanking occurs in tank stance, at least in the places where defensive CDs are needed, and then the switch mentioned above occurs. I do stance dance, but in the spots where I know defensive CDs will be needed, chances are good I'll already be in Defiance when the need arises. I'll grant that on those encounters where Deliverance can be used almost the entire time, the defensive stuff is way less, but those fights don't tax defense anyway.

Point being, WAR have plenty of defense if they want it.

In stormblood switching stances costs about half our current wrath.
You can see it in the job trailer when he switches, he goes from 80 to 40 so it's asumed it either costs half our gauge or fixed 40.