Post#25 » Tue Mar 16, 2010 3:02 am
I know its somewhat of an older topic, but I was wondering why it matters? Is it really that big of a deal if Knights get a defensive here?
As it stands if you look across most of the higher raiding guilds. Progeny, Dinodeeps(whats left?), Fusion, etc etc. Every single guild has upwards to 5 warriors, give or take a few. Each guild has one knight basically.
Though I havent spoke with any of the knights the main higher geared ones ive noticed are probably therion/karhaug. Id be curious to hear their opinions, and any other knights playing at the high end on the tanking level. Im not sure if they just play as dps/support heals or whatever, if they tank or what etc etc.
However I don't understand why there'd be a stink in giving knights a hand when it comes to tanking, allowing players extra options.
Personally I run with myself and another person boxing, we are only to ToV at this point having killed vulak recently so my experience doesn't go much past that. However as much fun as I think it would be to progression tank with a knight for a twist on the ever so exciting warriors do it all setup, its simply not viable.
This isn't live, it seems silly to live by their standards of USE A WARRIOR OR ELSE. We have the opportunity to give more flavor and different setups here, why not take advantage of that?
Why should a warrior feel threatened that some paladin can tank too? Are they threatened by the other warrior in their guild whos interested in tanking as well? Why should the class matter here? Some people enjoy playing something different, but when it comes to progression tanking (from what ive seen) there really is only one choice. A knight just isn't going to match up to double furious / stonewall in oh shit situations.
If we are going to avoid giving knights warrior type discs, which is fine. What are other alternatives to bring knights in line? My best guess is stats, though this could be completely misinformed as I don't really know the differences when push comes to shove. But looking at Therion vs Kiel who I assume are the top two geared of their class currently playing. According to the magelo, Therion is short a whopping 10k hp of Kiel. Is this because Kiel has some sort of innate advantage as a warrior or is he just that much better geared (forgive my ignorance on this part)?
If stats are the same when push comes to shove, and paladins aren't going the route of warrior discs. What other things can be done to bring them on par in regards to tanking?
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