None of it really matters. Period.
As an endgame Ogre SK, I almost never use my BE gear. It doesn't land on virtually anything you fight at endgame. It's just a party trick at this point. You could post-rez snare some chickens near Eashen I guess. I would definitely use Greenmist almost all the time, though (before ToV weapons or maybe epic).
I don't really pull much since we have monks that are much better at that. My FD almost never fails, BTW; really not something I think about. Less often than monks from what I've seen (which IMO is appropriate since it's a spell). I'm 60 and not leveling any more, but when I was I almost never really used that stuff either (I didn't fear kite). I used the bracers for snare most often out of the three major items, followed by the BP buff. I just didn't FD much I guess.
I still get interrupted (just not from frontal bash stun component, usually from push)--don't really care about getting stunned. I could cast in between stuns pretty easily, the only two or three spells that matter are 2s cast or less. Your job is to keep aggro off the people that actually kill the mob.
I never had any issues soloing because (1) this is a damn MMO, don't solo, duo at least, and (2) regen or healing is easy to come by. When I die to a mob that takes me 500-1000 below my HP, regen isn't going to help. Most DoTs take you down too quickly for regen to prevent you from needing heals. If not they are probably wimpy and resists/taps can deal with it.
With buffs I'm max on most stats, and if I'm in a situation where that isn't the case, I'm probably dead because mob scaling is out of whack. Unbuffed I can barely take a round or two from most high-end mobs without copious healing.
If you want to pull, be a monk, or a necro, then SK, then a Ranger/Druid maybe...
Knights in this era are just plain bad. We don't have the discs to tank the big stuff or be good speedbumps. We don't do DPS like the pokey guys. We can aggro better than anyone, though, so we end up taking and putting healers through crap in the hopes that wiz/rogues can kill it fast enough at full throttle. That said, I enjoy playing mine a lot, I tanked Vindi for the first time recently; you just won't be the best at anything, and probably will need to work to be mediocre. Now that I have some nice gear, I regularly get on DPS lists (if I'm not tanking) without discs or anything special really (just haste/buffs), which is exciting. There are some really good ratio top end knight weapons. If you do it right you can get 3 lifetap procs every few seconds + spell, which is a gimmick but is super fun and can help counteract some AEs (but you will still need heals).
Erudite and DE look the coolest, Iksar flops coolest, Ogre snots coolest, Troll uglies the most, and Humans exist too...take your pick. It really doesn't matter that much in the end, so find a non-mechanic reason to play one.
Bottom line is stop caring about endgame min/max and start caring about what's fun.
All that said, objectively, the best is Iksar because they have tails.
GL!
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