What tank?

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Jauna [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Alright, but do not be shocked when someone lashes out at you whenever this happens again.

This is not a normal response. Consider anger management.

[Jauna]

So out of all the times you walked up to a random strangers in real life to correct them, you never once gotten a "fuck off"?

[Samoht]

Originally Posted by Jauna [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So out of all the times you walked up to a random strangers in real life to correct them, you never once gotten a "fuck off"?

Normal people don't talk that way to strangers or casual acquaintances IRL. Look up John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory for a good summarization of your issue.

[trite]

Originally Posted by nina [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So I've never played a tank, casters yes, wizard, enchanter and the mighty necro. Moonlighted as a monk to 52 and loved it so I thought I might be missing out on a key area of the game.
That being said, I thought I might give it a go. I see a lot of SKs running around and the odd pally (though there doesnt seem a lot of love for them), a fair few warriors as well around Oasis in their overly tanked gear.
If I was looking at a tank, is SK the be all and end all? Are Pallys not worth the love or should I do straight warrior? How different are the play styles?
Any advice would be hot. My thought patterns are, at the moment, DE SK, or halfling warrior (love the XP bonus)... maybe troll warrior for regen

warrior if you want to tank on raids, shadow knight if you want to tank the grind casually

as a shadow knight or paladin you will do zero tanking in raid situations. As a shadow knight you will basically do nothing on raids, worthless

iksar warrior has better regen than troll warrior

[loramin]

Originally Posted by trite [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

iksar warrior has better regen than troll warrior

Huh? I was under the impression the two had the exact same regen:

Originally Posted by http://wiki.project1999.com/Character_Races#Increased_HP_Regeneration

Both Iksar and Trolls have higher HP regeneration rates (per tick):

*list of rates by level*

Comparatively, these are the HP regeneration rates (per tick) for all other races:

[Velthak]

If you know how to play an sk, youre always busy on raids. You can pull with the monks, keep enchanters alive by locking down mezzed mobs, ramp tank, dispell damage shields, and alot of times keep the mobs out of where all the casters are hiding out of line of sight. Defensive warriors are nice and all but if you have a CH chain to support whatever you need, then who cares? Maybe not unslowable Raging Wyvrens but Ive tanked wurms in HoT, Queen in Chardok, Neb in DN.

Gold jacket? Green jacket? Who gives a shit.

[nina]

Sweet, thanks for the information guys. So much more to it that I would have imagined. Might go try a pally and see how I go.

Now to narrow down the race, probably dwarf as I like a good diving roll [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Jimjam]

I like the subtle interplay of erudite shadowknight.

Also, that extra 5mr make it the obvious min max choice (!)

[Lhancelot]

Originally Posted by Jimjam [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I like the subtle interplay of erudite shadowknight.

Also, that extra 5mr make it the obvious min max choice (!)

don't forget, dorf get 5MR bonus too!

[demokatt]

According to what I read on forums, there is a softcap for tanks/meele at 289 for AC and above that, warriors get 45%, knights 33% and rangers like 17%?

Is that softcap 289 of what is shown in total ac then? Because it is pretty hard (atleast for me) to get 289 worn AC if you add together the AC that is written on the actual item when you rightklick it? And why do you get more AC than it is written on the item, even if you wear one? Is that class based?