Knights: Decent or Garbage?

[Daldaen]

Not a troll.

Excellent Knights are very rare. They make guilds great. They aren't reliant on any clickies to preform their major role. They can fufill many roles on raids.

They became stupidly OP later on once they get real defensive discs. Even in Velious they will be extremely important. As kiters, off tanks, rampage tanks. Sure they won't be main tanking AoW, hell most every warrior won't be. Nor will they tank Vulak or Vyemm, but they can hold their own against a decent amount. End game bosses not so much.

Plane of Sky, Knights are champions for basically every boss (probably not bee queen)
Plane of Hate/Growth + E/WToV armor clears, Knights are champions
Grouping, Knights are champions
Smaller trio style groups Knights are the superior tank option

Every raid mob with Rampage will be tagged by Knights and using jousting tactics you can determine which knight is taking rampage damage and prevent DPS and Clerics from taking it. Many mobs they can take it outright. Depending on the mob they can self sustain this behavior with no healer or just a torpor shaman. Or you can devote some defensive warriors and CH clerics to Rampage I guess?

Once almost every important raid mob is indoors, and bards lose their primary competitive edge in kiting, who do you think is going to kite trains or adds? You're gonna sacrifice Bards out to kite instead of their mana feeding clerics and wizards or providing resists on AEs... Yea no. Knights of course. And get ready for some epic ones on this server. Can't wait to see Kael when Statue or Tormax spawn.

If I had a pick between a baller knight, warrior, cleric, enchanter, bard or monk to join my guild, I'd pick the knight every time hands down. Monks here are all pretty bad because they've been crippled by broken sneak. Enchanters are babied with Cycle Target hotkey and most are pretty bad due to this (plus raids don't use CC much in Verrious), and warrior/cleric... Loooool (press 1-2 buttons, nice). Bard would be a good pick if knight weren't available.

Knights rule the world. People just haven't figured it out yet.