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andycamacho50

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:33 am


WHos better at tanking at raids Paladin or Death Knight
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:31 pm


All depends on who's playing

Tritin the Ice Demon


808Taiga

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:04 pm


Lots of people I know prefer a Warrior tank.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:04 pm


It really depends on the situation. For instance, I'd much rather have a Death Knight or Paladin tank for fights where Multiple mobs need to be tanked. For pure threat gen and the ability to take/mitigate a hell of a beating, I'd rather have a Druid or Warrior as a tank.


honey spice


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Heitaki

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:09 pm


DKs have lots of cooldowns and are good for fights like Sarth +3 Drakes, Mimiron, or any boss with a tank-eating encounter/ability. I think they have less TPS than most though.

For (target the weak point for) massive damage I'd pick a DK and for AoEz I'd pick a paladin.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 9:01 pm


Warriors have one thing that sets us out I think, and that's immediate AoE threat. We aren't as good in the long run like paladins, but Thunder Clap -> Shockwave is a lot of threat quickly. We also make fantastic off-tanks, and great trash tanks especially specced into cleave.

I do think that paladins and DKs are better tanks though, and that druid tanks can be better suited to some encounters. We all have our ups and downs (but paladins and DKs much less so imo).

The Mule Of Max


teranoid

Shadowy Gaian

PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:16 pm


death knight very yes.
PostPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:11 pm


andycamacho50
WHos better at tanking at raids Paladin or Death Knight

My guild has 3 tanks: A druid, a paladin and a death knight. All of them are equally good at tanking and keeping AoE aggro. The only thing we especially need the death knight tank for is for General Vezax, because he can eat up the blows from the increased damage from Surge of Darkness. Yes, we could kite him, but that causes issues with interrupts and we found it works best to zerg-tank him.

But in general, the best tank depends on who's playing it.

Gymnos



honey spice


Generous Fashionista

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 1:49 am


Gymnos
But in general, the best tank depends on who's playing it.
pirate
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:06 am


Dudes DK's cant tank as good as pallys because of the whole shield thing. No shield so less armor=more dmg intake. So pallys all the way. Unless you link a DK armory 80% or more avoidance. Then that is my verdict.

Zuno_Uzumaki



honey spice


Generous Fashionista

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:48 am


Pyro_mage101
Dudes DK's cant tank as good as pallys because of the whole shield thing. No shield so less armor=more dmg intake. So pallys all the way. Unless you link a DK armory 80% or more avoidance. Then that is my verdict.
So paladins are best because they have a shield? Warriors have shields too. Druids don't have a shield so does that mean they're a horrible tanking class as well?


My verdict is that you, sir, have never played a death knight tank.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:45 pm


Agreed on last poster.

It does depend on the player. Ive seen some AWEFUL DK tanks and I've seen some AWEFUL paladin tanks. Ive also seem some awesome examples of both.

DK tanks tend to be better at tanking bosses with large burst damage (ex, Sartharion, Mimiron) and bosses where the damage might not be big but their cooldowns would come in very handy because of a cripple put on healers (ex. General Vezax). Even with death and decay, i trust a pally tank more on adds as a general rule (ex. whelps and elementals on Sarth). But like i said, class doesnt really matter very much so long as the person behind the character isn't a noob.

Shimmer Matataku


teranoid

Shadowy Gaian

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 9:34 pm


Pyro_mage101
Dudes DK's cant tank as good as pallys because of the whole shield thing. No shield so less armor=more dmg intake. So pallys all the way. Unless you link a DK armory 80% or more avoidance. Then that is my verdict.
Shut up, you're bad.
PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:18 pm


So you guys don't think a Warrior is a good tank then? O_o

808Taiga


Kateroo

PostPosted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:23 pm


808Taiga
So you guys don't think a Warrior is a good tank then? O_o


The OP is asking if Paladin or DK is better. Just because warriors aren't mentioned doesn't mean we think their bad tanks. Just this thread is talking about "paladin vs DK"
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