I see all this talk of Pally/SK's being great group tanks because of snap aggro and warriors having problems.... But no one has mentioned bards! Bards are the best group tanks on p99 right now! Yes I'm sure this will stirr up some emotions from 'traditional' plate tanks, but hear me out! As a bard, you'll likely be doig the pulling, so you have the initial aggro bonus, then you can use chains (which imo rivals disease cloud as best snap aggro in game) which will snare and! slow the mob. While the mob is in camp you can twist dots on it (use instrument twisting for greater effect) building even more insurmountable hate, and play a heal song, and a mana song.
Bard mitigation is not as good as other plate tanks you'll say. This is true, however, since the mob is slowed, and a heal song and a manasong is being played, the amount of heals needed to keep the bard up are lowered greatly, and the rate of kills and XP are very high. On top of this, add the Staff of Aggro (writhing) in primary and a PGT in secondary (rune proc) and no one can touch the bard on aggro.
Note: I don't believe bards should be able to tank as well as they do, the aggro code is not done correctly for them, but I can't find the specific date when it was changed that bards could no longer hold aggro... whatsoever.
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Astuce Subterfuge
Bard of the 44th Song
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