M/K Tank Statting Question

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Location: Ohio

Saturday, January 28th 2012, 4:13pm

Hey all! I was thinking about turning my soon-to-be 55 m/k into a tanking mage, so I'd like your opinions. This is going to be for fun, so I'm not going be tanking anything serious (yet :p)

I was going to use the Bloody set from HoS (since it's pretty easy to get) and stat it almost entirely with pdef/stam, with 2-3 stats of intel/matk thrown in to help her hold aggro. Then I was going to fill up her staff with intel/matk. My question then - is my ratio of def to attk good? Should I use white clean gear instead? And what jewelry should I use (I was thinking about Dilan'y)?

Thanks for your help.

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DWibbie

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Saturday, January 28th 2012, 4:38pm

Why would you tank with a Mage? Knight/wardens get such good def bonuses that they can easily out tank another class. Curious though what skills will you use to try and hold aggro?

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ElvenScribe

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Saturday, January 28th 2012, 5:10pm

This is more of an experiment for fun to see if I actually can tank with a mage than anything else. I do have other tanking classes, but I wanted to do something different. I could have just tried going it alone, but I thought I'd ask for tips before I used any gear.

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Galenwaithien

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Saturday, January 28th 2012, 6:40pm

There are a few reason why i think a Mage tank cannot work.
1. Mage are good dps mostly in burst phase. Out of burst phase even if you use a hatred X you might have problems.
2. The above is even truer if you consider that to get to decent values of hp/pdef you need even more stam due to low pdef to stam for clothies ( only 1.5def per stam iirc).
3. R/k and w/k can pull it off because they are still physical classes so can use holy strike, and r/k gets dodge AND pdef, whereas the warrior gets ok-ish pdef from stam, some parry, defensive formation ( as a oh crap skill), taunts...
4. R/k can even use an extra hatred.

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pazuzzu

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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 1:30am

just stat normally..aggro will be dps based so cant gimp yourself. even in ch3 with an awake healer, it wasnt hard to mage tank rt silver and kt. (well trash from start to boss 1 in kt were...sketchy ><. immunes.) just have to have the main aggro dps use tranq and maybe holy protection if you dont have a hatred 8+.

think i had ~110k pdef and 105k hp when i didi rt and kt...cant remember exactly

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ElvenScribe

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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 5:46am

Quoted from "pazuzzu;505951"

just stat normally..aggro will be dps based so cant gimp yourself. even in ch3 with an awake healer, it wasnt hard to mage tank rt silver and kt. (well trash from start to boss 1 in kt were...sketchy ><. immunes.) just have to have the main aggro dps use tranq and maybe holy protection if you dont have a hatred 8+.

think i had ~110k pdef and 105k hp when i didi rt and kt...cant remember exactly

Thanks for the advice! I figured I was going to try and make a M/K tank, whether people said I could or not, so it helps to have a pro give me tips.

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CharlieBananas

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Sunday, January 29th 2012, 12:06pm

4 Intel/Stam
2 Intel/Magic Attack

Which is for every other class I'd say too. Just stated normally. You don't need to stat extra defense since you get a 63% bonus anyways. Same with the stamina passive.

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bobinator501

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Thursday, February 2nd 2012, 12:25pm

hello, bobthetankgician of govinda here.
i actually had this idea too awhile back and thought i'd give it a try.
to put it short, it won't work. i am fairly well statted and i have 60k hp and 90k pdef with EA and about the highest i can tank is rt silver.
the biggest problem is aggro. i have a t9 +16 puppet queen with a hatred 10 in it and i cannot hold other mages aggro even with their recon 7's and what have you.
i am a huge pain in the butt in siege and i do nice damage but i can't keep aggro unless i put up elemental catalysis and use guitar/arcane pots.

it's a great idea on paper but once you get it goin you realize you're just wasting your time.

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pazuzzu

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Monday, February 6th 2012, 1:11pm

^ ^ what he said..plan on waiting for 5min cd's every fight and have a k/p parked outside or in party.

as far as mage tanking i off-tank in annelia fights and thats about it these days. gch will beat you into a liquid mage slurry. so kt kinda the furthest to venture.

although and unnamed m/k actually stand tanked diamond once. was kind of a trick-ish thing maybe. back in ch3 too

hax!