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Originally Posted by VincentVolaju
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What is the better tank class in EQ? I would have assumed warrior, but I have heard that there really not that great because they dont have any aggro skills, that SKs and Pallys are much better at tanking, and can hold aggro 100x better. How true is all that?
Which class is the better tank, and which class is the easiest to tank with?
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What a horribly loaded question, prepare for a fight :P SKs are the easiest to hold aggro with, they are quite useful for picking--grabbing mobs off a kiter. This is rather situational. They're also useful for multi mob pulls that aren't mezzable and enough charmers aren't avail in a raid situation. Paladins have no real niche outside of being one of the classes who can cast blind and not having much else to do with their time / mana...so they' blind :P Warriors hold best sustained threat and tbh with P1999 proc-rates its actually rather bursty once you have 2x ssoy or better (i've heard arguments on both sides for bloodfire, but regardless, the threat is high enough in either combination).
In expansions to come: Kunark will see the rise of pre-nerf COS and death peace, making SKs just as good if not better pullers than monks--but monks have death grips on their pulling positions :P. Disciplines heavily favor warriors with /disc defensive making them the major player for raid tanking roles. Once velious comes out /disc defensive and higher AC softcaps (assuming they get that working well o_O) really put warriors leaps and bounds above the others. Paladins are there for brells and SKs are there for picking on larger un-mezzable/charmable trash pulls.
It's a complex answer, but pre-SSOY proc'ing (36? 35?) SK tends to do quite well with mana efficient aggro. Post dual SSOYs, warriors are pretty much untouchable on p1999 for tanking purposes, while paladins / SKs are much better pulls--It all depends on your group comp.