I wish I enjoyed the tanking classes more. Being able to wear all the gear, switch between two such dramatically different roles, and do well at both ... fun.
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I wish I enjoyed the tanking classes more. Being able to wear all the gear, switch between two such dramatically different roles, and do well at both ... fun.
Groups will accept a dps DT but it does depend on personalities and what instances they are looking to do, you can feat to do dps and retain the dread shadow as well which means you can pop the shadow out when the main tank is needed. Doing a Yag circuit you will still be able to tank one of the sisters in Caverns of Malice and the more common instances run with a Yag loop like Palace of Yun Rau you are kiting the healer or providing the dread shadow in Reliquary of Flame.
DPS DT with DS? :-) I wouldn't accept dps dt in group unless I know that he knows what he's doing. Most of them just go wild and get aggro after few seconds and die in 2 hits. Keep in mind that DT's don't have any aggro lowering abilities and it's very hard to not get aggro when you go full crazy.
I've started a DT, Conq and BS now. I read that you get a good impression of the classes by leveling them to lvl 30 aprox.!?
Will either plan for a long time gearing up (DT), DPS as conq (while also gathering tank stuff) or attempt to master the bear ^_^
Thanks again for the information everyone and I'm still up for suggestions.
Rolled my "test chars" on Crom now. Played on Fury with my old characters.
Yeah, it's neither tank nor dps... but you don't need a real tank for KK :D
It's all about being flexible and finding your place in a group.
I used DS/dps spec when I had crappy gear and couldn't really tank even with full turtle spec - DS is a nice offtank and very useful in specific moments, while the added dps from tali would help to pull my weigh as a DD :)
not a fan of a full dep/desc 50/50 build if u look for a build that can do dps in some instances and tank in others just get VoM get a dep/desc/general build. and wear magic/crit gear when u want dps. imho its still best of both worlds no tali though:x.(i also switch gear during fight faces just have 1 tab in bag with ur dps gear one after eachother open it left click all and go dps in 3 seconds):D