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Originally Posted by webrunner5
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I will agree with you on some points. But a Pally can not be a Ogre. So they get stunned. So guess what no spell cast while stunned or weapon proc. Then there is resists. In Velious a lot of mobs can not be rooted.
When Velious comes out no Ranger or Monk is going to Tank Velious mobs. We will all be hoping for a Ogre tank to stroll by then lol.
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Not sure what you're trying to portrait here. Again, knight classes aren't dependant on melee damage. As a matter of fact, they can tank without turning auto-attack on.
Yea, paladins don't have frontal stun immunity. But they can generate enough agro while the mob is incomming to the group that even if they get stunned right on the bat (and we do have avoidance skills in case you forget that) they can pick up right where they left of without any issues.
Spells, even if they get resisted, generate enough threat to maintain agro. People on this server are simply not used to having a proper knight tank in their leveling groups. I can tell by the number of shamans/enchanters I've grouped with, that in the first couple of pulls they will come up to the mob I'm tanking and stay next to it while they try to slow it. Or they will root a mesed mob before I would actually move next to it, to tank it. And all of them stoped doing it after they saw that the mob would not even look at them.
People just worry about this exp penalty all too much. When actually, if you have a good knight tank in your group, the exp flow can be a lot faster when compared to a warrior tank. There are simply too many tools at our disposal to save the day.
Knight classes aren't designed to tank 100k hp hard hitting quading bosses. And it's supposed to be that way, as well. But right now, they can tank mobs like Innoruuk or Faydedar / Severilious etc etc just fine.
Frontal stun immunity was never a mandatory ability to have. It's nice, but not the end-all-be-all for end game tanking.
Proof? Furor was a human warrior iirc.