Do tanks actually take less damage?

[Legidias]

Id argue that bards take less damage than knights in a levelling group (given, say, everyone is in thurg gear) as they can pre-slow as targets come in and basically never lose aggro. One of the easiest ways to tank something I found was just to hit it with bard snare and just kite it for 0 damage. Works from lvl 20 or w/e all the way to 60, even in a tiny room in seb.

Knights have higher AC cap though and higher skills like parry, etc. IIRC