As a half elf warrior with decent starting Dex I really never had much problems tanking once I got my hands on an Obsidian Shard. Even though I went from pretty much level 22-46 while using a shard in main hand and a non-proccing silvery war axe in the off hand, I almost never had trouble holding aggro until I was low 40's. Though, I also made it a point not to attempt fighting mobs much higher level than me. Now that I have SSoYx2 and FBSS, it is even easier. In-fact, in the planes, I will generally pull aggro off of SK's or Pally's going all out, UNLESS they get multiple spells off before I can get into fighting range. Even then, sometimes I will pull it off part way through the fight.
The problems I had with holding aggro existed when the DPS classes started attack before I had been able to do damage. As long as the DPS classes held of a couple seconds, I generally did not have trouble keeping it on my most of the fight. For melee classes they should be able to engage shortly after the warrior does and not have a problem. A spell caster can easily pull off a mob early on in the fight if they wish.
Also, while leveling up, I consistently had healers tell me a warrior tanking was much easier on their mana than SK/Pally.
The times I see when a SK/Pally will shine is when they are tanking dark red mobs. In this case, the warrior is at a serious disadvantage as they cannot taunt, their melee dps goes down, and the chance of proc resists is higher. Obviously an SK and Pally would do better in this area as they can constantly spam spells.
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06-08-2010, 06:03 PM
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