tank with least buttons for 4 mans

[VenKitsune]

All a DRK has to do is literally just spam Unleash/Abyssal drain with some blood price to get mana back. That's it. At most at really high levels spam abyssal drain with the ocasional quietus worked in there.

i could not disagree more. That might of been the case with 4.0 launch but now with 4.05 changes the aoe rotation is somewhat different in that Quietus is actually useful now and actually requires some sitational awareness to see if its worth it or not. you have to judge how much damage you're taking from the trash to judge if TBN will break to get you the 50 blood, then you have to judge if Quietus is worth it (worth it on 5 mobs as it pays for the TBN used, 10 mobs pays for both TBN and the DA used on it.

Meanwhile PLD is litterally flash twice then mash Total Eclipse until everything is dead while weaving in Circle of Scorn. Litterally 3 buttons as a bare minimum for "acceptable" aoe damage.

[Rhyn]

WAR has Tomahawk > Infuriate > Steel Cyclone > swap to deliverance > eye combo > overpower till the eye combo wears off, then reapply if you want to be optimal. If you don't, you can tank any trash pull in the game with one button, Overpower. And it isn't half bad even if you do unlike if a PLD were to spam Flash. However if you one day decide you want to do better than the lowest common denominator, WAR has the most complex single target dps rotation.

However as has probably become clear from this thread, all tanks aoe rotations are so simple a monkey could do it.

[jstamos]

I really hope I never have to heal you.

[Hierro]

I think DRK has so many buttons to press. Good lawd, I know I'm just struggling that I don't have more fingers to press all these buttons. DA-DP, blood price, shadow wall/rampart, anticipation, TBN, quietus, delirium, and abyssal drain. Gaining MP is so convoluted that thought is required so you can be more than a punching bag for the mobs.

WAR, on the other hand, that's simple. pop defensive, activate eye and zerk, spam OP either in defiance or deliverance. DONE. Can you take in the time to build gauge and spam decimate and steel cyclone? sure, but taht's easy too. you're not being a piano concertist+physics major like a DRK.