Thread: Tank comparison at 5.0?

Hi, I haven't played this for about a year before, but before that I used to try all tanks. I want to know how they are comparison now?



Does it still be that Pld always MT and WAR always ST and has highest DPS, while DRK is kidda at middle for both? Or does it change now? How does the Gunblade come in?

Just fyi, PLD was never always the main tank, at least maybe not since ARR. WAR doesnt have the highest dps thats gnb.

Nowadays all tanks can main tank as well as each other, damage goes GNB, PLD, WAR, DRK. Then its just a toss up utilily, PLD has strong party support, as does WAR, DRK has the best personal mitigation outside of invul skills. Honestly the beat advice is try them out and play what you like most

Originally Posted by armandojc3

As for gameplay:

GNB: Feels like a DPS with some tank abilities. Highest damage simplest rotation.
WAR: Pretty much the same as Stormblood. Best sustainability, high satisfaction.
PLD: Also feels similar to SB, the choice to either dps or defend is there more so than the rest of the tanks. Best mitigation and can heal.
DRK: Way more simple now, dark arts is no longer an active thing. Resource management remains. Worst at everything lol but the cool factor remains.

Arguably its easier for WAR and PLD to MT.

Oh, I thought Dark Knight supposed to be the best this time around? the game is about WoD and all lol?



I usually main Pld, because I feel that it is what a tank supposed to be, but I want to prepare another tank who goes better on dps, because Pld is kidda slow feeling. I am considering between Gunblade and Dark Knight. Dark knight shadow clone look cool, but I wonder how whether it actually useful in game play?

roughly all the tanks are nearly equal in what they can accomplish in content, with small exceptions such as;
DRK can only mitigate raid wide dmg for the party if its magical. (which im fairly sure all unavoidable aoes, that kill party members, ios magical)
and WAR is the only tank who's DPS is increased when MTing. (but by an extremely small amount.)

instead, you pick the job based on your personal preference.

GNB for the highest APM.
DRK is 2nd highest, with an extremely simplistic 123 rotation. (you can also just stright up ignore TBN, and spam all of ur MP away. Which is why DRK kept its magical dmg only mitigation skills, otherwise DRKs would be lazy and do as i just suggested about TBN)
WAR is the lowest APM, but has more variety of CDs to use.
PLD is more about its longer rotation. 123, 124, 555 (some of its mitigation is tied to losing GCDs, but even so, w/o the ones that hurt the GCD, like clemency, and the wings, it can currently handle just about anything anyways.)

all of them have other skills to work with, but trying to think of a way to explain them as simplistically as possible, while still pointing out differences, is kinda hard, so you'd have to look into them all in detail.

EDIT:

Originally Posted by Alise

Dark knight shadow clone look cool, but I wonder how whether it actually useful in game play?

Like all abilities, its just a DPS increase (its a DoT with a flashy animation, like pets)
Tanks are even more DPS with mitigation, than they were in SB. (depending on how you see it.)