Thread: Tank comparison at 5.0?

DRK just feels like it's in a weird spot, It's a magic tank, but it also only has like one anti magic skill. It's defensive cooldowns (To me at least) promote dangerous play with players needing to put themselves in harms way / take damage to benefit from them. (TBN needs the shield to break to benefit from it for your DPS and Living Dead is well, the Living Dead) It seems the only thing it can solidify about itself on a patch to patch basis is EDGE MEMES

If you have a WAR you still have them be the MT. Their OT skill is pretty 'meh' and vengeance still has damage tied to it so you are losing damage having a WAR sideline. Doesn't mean they deal enough damage...
Right now the best damage and group comp is PLD and GNB. They deal the most damage and thier support skills are generally better than their counterparts.

Personally, I'm up in the air about maining WAR or PLD. Kind of waiting until I see changes next week, but really it comes down to a decision on if I want a more strictly rotational job (PLD) or more of a priority job (WAR). Leaning WAR, but not completely decided yet.

I can't speak balance wise, I have GNB and DRK at 70 and PLD at 76 which I am currently leveling.

But gameplay-wise at this point at least.
Atonement for PLD sucks imo, it's very boring. It doesn't look or feel good to use, the usual 123 Royal Authority combo looks and feels way better imo. It's kind of a bummer imo, feeling as if things got less fun with a new ability is never good.
Everything else tho is great, but I just dinged 76 and when I started using Atonement I just felt '' meh ''.

DRK feels slow imo and as if there's not much going on.
It doesn't feel as varied as the rest imo, I want to love it but I sorta feel like I get bored with it really fast. And I don't see how that would change at higher levels really, maybe a bit more fun in AoE I guess?
It just feels very '' floaty '', as if I am going through this unimpactful monotonous thing.

GNB I am disappointed with continuation.
Maybe because people hyped it up so much and talked about how amazing it was, but it's honestly not that fun imo. And I don't like the new sound effects :/.

War I have no clue, maybe I'll level it too and give it a chance again.

Overall tho PLD is the most fun imo, but when I dinged 76 and got Atonement I felt like the ability made things feel more monotonous.