I have a 6-man team of half-silver half-bronze accounts.
When deciding on the team makeup I knew I wanted three wizards for DPS, a healer, a tank, and someone to CC.
I decided on an enchanter for the CC since bard seem more suited to melee oriented groups, and I knew I wanted a cleric for healing simply because I love clerics (Shaman is amazing as well, but the enchanter can haste/slow so it really loses a lot of the utility)
So then I had to think long and hard about what kind of tank I wanted and very quickly I realized as a FTP player I wouldn't have access to the vast majority of usable AC augs.
So my choices were either A: Shitty warrior or knight with garbage augs, B: A mercenary that will quit on me when I need them most (Dumbest feature of any game i've ever seen. What am I paying you for, you cowardly AI!), or C: A pet that hold its own.
So I decided to try and main tank with a mage (Wood elf beastlord was a close second, but I read that Earth elementals can tank better.) and it is going okay so far at level 55.
So this brings me to my question:
Is a mage pet going to be able to tank most 6-man group content later in the game?
I kind of want to get a heroic Iksar Warrior just for the AC bonus and the free sweet non-prestige heroic AC augs.
Would that be an acceptable tank or would the lack of prestige augs just completely ruin that slot in my group for tanking and dps?
Also, what is the consensus on BL vs mage pet for pet tanking? Which can take you farther?
When deciding on the team makeup I knew I wanted three wizards for DPS, a healer, a tank, and someone to CC.
I decided on an enchanter for the CC since bard seem more suited to melee oriented groups, and I knew I wanted a cleric for healing simply because I love clerics (Shaman is amazing as well, but the enchanter can haste/slow so it really loses a lot of the utility)
So then I had to think long and hard about what kind of tank I wanted and very quickly I realized as a FTP player I wouldn't have access to the vast majority of usable AC augs.
So my choices were either A: Shitty warrior or knight with garbage augs, B: A mercenary that will quit on me when I need them most (Dumbest feature of any game i've ever seen. What am I paying you for, you cowardly AI!), or C: A pet that hold its own.
So I decided to try and main tank with a mage (Wood elf beastlord was a close second, but I read that Earth elementals can tank better.) and it is going okay so far at level 55.
So this brings me to my question:
Is a mage pet going to be able to tank most 6-man group content later in the game?
I kind of want to get a heroic Iksar Warrior just for the AC bonus and the free sweet non-prestige heroic AC augs.
Would that be an acceptable tank or would the lack of prestige augs just completely ruin that slot in my group for tanking and dps?
Also, what is the consensus on BL vs mage pet for pet tanking? Which can take you farther?