Objective Considerations about the new tanks in ShB! Discuss :)

[TouchandFeel]

Why you say the GNB have the worst kit for personal mitigation? Nebula is the same as Vengeance and sentinel, camouflage has high parry rate and 10% dmg reduction. Then HoS it’s soooo good 15% dmg reduction on a 25sec cooldown like the War Raw intuition and only this 2 tanks have this extra skill with such a short cooldown. Am I missing anything? :P

All the tanks have a mitigation ability that is available ~20s-30s. PLD has Sheltron, WAR has Raw Intuition, DRK has The Blackest Night and GNB has Heart of Stone.

WAR and GNB have these abilities detached from anything else and are just on a 25s recast timer. WAR's is 20% but lasts 5s, while GNB's is 15% but lasts for 7s. This makes WAR's better for most busters but GNB's may be slightly better for fluff damage or the less common longer multi-hit buster, which gives WAR a slight edge with these abilities for being MT over GNB.

DRK and PLD have both of their abilities tied to resources but at the rate of resource gain, both should be able to use their abilities between every 20s and every 30s, so basically the same as GNB and WAR. PLD's will be weaker until they get the Improved Sheltron trait and will scale a bit with gear/stats, so it will become stronger as we get farther into the ShB patches and iLvls increase. DRK's TBN was strong before and is even stronger now. In virtually all instances outside of super strong busters, TBN will likely prevent more damage from being taken than any of the other tank frequent use abilities. Dark Mind being magic only means that can't really be used for fluff and should be used for busters, many of or most being magic damage. These things make DRK lean more towards being MT over PLD.

In addition to those defensive differences, PLD and GNB have a smidge more support capabilities.

So basically, DRK and WAR are slightly more suited towards being MT while PLD and GNB are slightly more suited to being OT, however the disparity is not so large that any of the tanks couldn't work in either position, unlike the much stronger divisions that we have had in the past.