General Discussion Tank build?

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Sunday, February 10th 2013, 7:51am

Tank build?

Its been a couple years since I played the game and its downloading right now so I'll post this in hopes that my question will be answered by the time the game finishes.

What's a good combo for a tank? And how is endgame if there is any in this game?

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Borella

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Sunday, February 10th 2013, 7:59am

Warden/Warrior is an amazing tank, as is Knight/Scout and Knight/Priest.

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ruisen2000

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Sunday, February 10th 2013, 5:05pm

Champion/Rogue. Hate them, but yeah, they're pretty OP. Tanking, DPSing, and uber AoE's all in 1.

AND they can hit you for 190k through any amount of walls in siege QQ.

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Rossbot

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Sunday, February 10th 2013, 11:19pm

All the ones listed so far are great.
One they missed is Warden/Druid. It's a great tanking combo that got better recently due to some skill changes.
Knights are sort of falling out of favor without a weapon damage boost. It's kind of sad, but they can still hold aggro pretty well. Knight has little to no damage but plenty of AoE power and aggro boosting skills.
Champion/Mage and Champion/Warrior are also good tanking classes. Neither of them have nearly as much damage as Champion/Rogue, but both have skills that absorb damage based on their total health which is added survival.

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RhazeCain

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Friday, February 15th 2013, 7:59pm

Quoted from "ruisen2000;588390"

Champion/Rogue. Hate them, but yeah, they're pretty OP. Tanking, DPSing, and uber AoE's all in 1.

AND they can hit you for 190k through any amount of walls in siege QQ.

Lol, did I contribute to your C/R hatred there Noblewarrior? Pretty sure I killed you in siege quite a few times. >.<

For what it's worth the big hit through walls sounds like Elemental Rampage from Champ/Mage, not C/R at all. The AEs for C/R are either centered on the player with about 75 range, or targeted out away from player but more for the movement slow than damage. They also require a lot of rage and have cooldowns of at least 1 min.

The tank options were mostly listed already: Wd/W, Wd/D, K/S, K/P, K/R, K/W, C/R. Warrior/Knight is possible to tank lesser things and you have high dmg output. C/P, C/M, C/W might be ok too, but I haven't actually seen anyone do well with them yet (Champ was introduced more recently, so could work fine and I wouldn't know yet).

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TWMXC

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Sunday, February 24th 2013, 5:51pm

Endgame is expensive

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FarmerTom

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Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 12:44pm

Quoted from "Borella;588364"

Warden/Warrior is an amazing tank, as is Knight/Scout and Knight/Priest.

Borella imma start kickkin ur butt here soon if you dont start including wd/s into your list of good tanks rofl....

wd/s> wd/w tanking imo

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hangman04

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Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 5:03pm

k/s - 2x hatred
wr/k - still powerful
wd/wr - have plate
ch/r - imba i've heard
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k/p - both good
k/r - but its hard to compensate 1 hatred X
ch/p - i've heard it's nice also

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RoMage

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Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 5:05pm

Quoted from "hangman04;590279"

k/s - 2x hatred
wr/k - still powerful
wd/k - have plate
ch/r - imba i've heard
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k/p - both good
k/r - but its hard to compensate 1 hatred X
ch/p - i've heard it's nice also

wd/k????

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Auros

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Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 6:33pm

Yes, the dreaded Wd/K, however not near as deadly as the Ch/S

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Wl/R/M/Ch 100x4 :borg:

Wd/W/S 100/100/100
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RoMage

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Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 6:46pm

If Wd is Warden, then there is no combo with Knight... or I got something wrong...

The same goes for Warlock...

I believe it is just abbriviations... we always used W for warrior, Wd for Warden, leaving Wl for warlock.

Knight is only Human class, and only combo I know is W/K and K/W. IIRC W/K can wear plate... (IIRC L40 elite)

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40pints

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Sunday, March 3rd 2013, 11:47pm

only tank worth talking about IMO is W/K and to those who dont think it can tank every instance i beg to differ. iv tanked just about everything in game with very little pdef just because i like to be able to dps a lot. with the 60 elite that gives whirlwind increased aggro and lower cd it is now a beast. it hits as hard as blasting cyclone for me and i only have it at L56 and cyclone is 77. So ya w/k can tank everything and only other tank i like to see tanking is ch/r they are awesome.

ps i used to play k/s but it got boring fast.

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AllHailMacbeth3

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Sunday, March 3rd 2013, 11:59pm

While everyone thinks wd/w is the best warden tank, i honestly disagree. Wd/s is better imo because of 2 hatreds, ranged pulls, and way higher damage output while still being able to take any amount of damage a wd/w could.

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RoMunited

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Monday, March 4th 2013, 12:05am

nvm this

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mikkehboii

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Monday, March 4th 2013, 12:42am

Quoted from "AllHailMacbeth3;591478"

While everyone thinks wd/w is the best warden tank, i honestly disagree. Wd/s is better imo because of 2 hatreds, ranged pulls, and way higher damage output while still being able to take any amount of damage a wd/w could.

Going to have to disagree. Wdn/W should outdps Wdn/S with the same gear. Wdn/W has a better burst due to Feral Leader while decreasing the aggro of your party members by 50%. You can also use Berserk for more P.Att increase with Coat of Arms to nullify majority of the P.Def reduction, while having Feral Leader reduce damage received overall. Wdn/W also has higher %DPS skills and much more skills to weave in between Charged Chops. An extra hatred really isn't much, a Warden tank shouldn't have aggro issues in the first place. Wdn/W skills also have aggro multipliers on them, causing them to produce much more aggro than a Wdn/S. And of course, you have much more defensive capabilities as a Wdn/W. SOTO pulls very well, or you can have a DPS pull and you catch it while it is on the way over. Only thing that Wdn/S tank has over a Wdn/W tank is an interrupt in Throat Attack.

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FarmerTom

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Monday, March 4th 2013, 12:15pm

THATS IT! We need a threat off! XD

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sadakko

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Wednesday, March 6th 2013, 3:31pm

Quoted from "FarmerTom;590233"

Borella imma start kickkin ur butt here soon if you dont start including wd/s into your list of good tanks rofl....

wd/s> wd/w tanking imo

I'm curious,
What's your warden.scout buffed def. hp. And parry as a tank?
and
What's the highest instance u cleared.

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sadakko

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Wednesday, March 6th 2013, 3:32pm

And p attk.

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FarmerTom

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Friday, March 8th 2013, 5:18am

ROFL ive run with you noob! ive tanked on wd/s straight to 7th, no i havent been ona clear yet, but cleared to either 6th or 7th numerous times. 330k hp, 680k pdef and 85k pa man. 37% parry almost forgot about that, and over 5k block.

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Misguided 100CH/100R/100M/68WL/88P/52W
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Been on multiple servors
Started playing around lvl 55 Cap...

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