Taliseian

I raided/grouped alot on my Paladin before switching to a Swashie.

Once I put amends on the main DPSer in the group, I had very few aggro control problems.

If I was the high dps'er and the pally put amends on me, it was the same situation. The mobs never left the paladin.

I've seen a few aggro issues with other tanks, but in all honestly I think its the dps not watching their own aggro most of the time. The tank class didn't matter in the end.


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SacDaddy

I can hold aggro

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Laretha

Ok I play a well geared raiding warlock (non avatar). So I generate a reasonable amount of hate and agro.

What I have found is this..... gear makes the tank as well as skill and group set up.

The paladin is the only class that has a hope to hold agro while doing goup instances without some form of hate transfer or deagro.

So in the non perfect group the pally wins hands down.

ok in the perfect group set up for each tank class with similar gear and skill I have found the following:

AOE Encounters Pally will hold agro better than any other class.
SK will hold agro if they are given ut/tc over me.
Zerker & guardian do fine but I have to control my dps
Monk/brusier hmmmm I tank

Having said this if you have a high single target dpser and AoE in the same group. The paladin can be driven nuts as to who they put amends on. Where a Sk will perform better in this situation and probably the zerker too.

ON single targets with a perferct grp set up and similar gear etc every tank does well.

The further away from the perfect group set up, gear differnces and skill Amends (from the pally) become more and more effective.

As a generalised statement without knowing the gear skill of a tank I would normaly perfer Paladin, SK, Zerker and guardian as tanks in that order.

but this is only the point of veiw of a warlock im sure other dps classes have their prefered tank class too.

Lare

Davngr

if you say "paladins have the best agro" ok sure agro is something paladins don't have to worry about for he most part... IF you say "paladins are the best tanks" then you run to trouble. right now sk's are the best plate tank followed by zerk then pally and guard.

Maevar

Would have to disagree, on multiple targets zerker dps is higher WITH a shield, and to a certain degree so is guard if they are ae auto specc'd.

As this expansion is so grp encounter oriented that statement is pretty much all wrong.

Jeal

yawn.

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Davngr

lol

Apheod

fuck off, cheater.

on a side note, while brawlers are at a disadvantage for sure, saying they simply cannot tank with heavy dps in the group is asinine.

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Erkekjetter

Paladin even without amends has the best agro in TSO.

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Crabbok

False.

Have you SEEN what happens when the amends target dies? it's not pretty.

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