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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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It is a little surprising to hear you feel rangers so easily out tank your rogue.
Honestly, I'm not really expecting a rogue to take the tank role over a ranger; Rangers have great tools for controlling mobs, which rogues don't. Rogues do great dos with backstabbing. The meta dictates rangera gear and buff to tank adequately and keep their defence skills up. From what I understand these are not such priorities to a rogue?
My point is rogues aren't expected to step up as tank while maintank is AFK or has to unexpectedly leave. As such you're not exactly obliged to gear up much beyond epic+offhand.
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Rogue defensive skills are better than most people give them credit for. They mitigate and avoid aggro better than rangers. Rangers function in the tank role globally better thanks to potent, cheap, and fast casting aggro, but when it comes to who actually takes less damage when being beat on, rogues are undeniably superior. Unlike rangers, though, when they ARE taking the damage they take a massive hit to their primary duty of making things dead (no backstab). Rangers suffer no more or less damage output than any of the real plate tanks or a monk.
Rouges can tank, it’s just not ideal to have them do it. Dps drops acutely and they’ve got no real way of quickly establishing and aggro lead or getting it back once it’s lost.