Question - Tanking Question.. (1 Viewer)

[Liquid741]

I play on a emulator and still kinda noobish to tanking and running a full crew. When taking on raid content bosses is it better for my tank to be S/B, DW, or 2hand at level 60?

Thank you.

 

[Avian]

As a generic rule for raid content, it will always be sword and board. There's some odd exceptions here and there where you swap in X while Y is occurring, but otherwise just slap that sword and shield on and don't touch it.

Dual wielding aggro proc weapons for initial aggro is not uncommon in that era, but the first goal of the tank is to not be dead. And if you're not having aggro issues, the added risk dual wielding opens you up to isn't providing any real benefit.

 

[Liquid741]

Thank you for the quick response. Been DW and lately been losing health as I engage higher tier mobs. Wanted to optimize as much as I can.

 

[wymranar]

yeah, avian said the same thing I was going to say.

What raids are you working on? I’m somewhat interested in EMU because I realize that eq will not be around forever, and I will have to get my fix some day!

 

[da Man]

couldnt have said it better myself, s&b when tanking raids unless you need something specific for that mob.

 

[Liquid741]

I’m in Vex Thal currently. And was having serious issues with the second to last boss/blob quading me once he hit 10% health. I couldn’t keep up the heals with my cleric/shammy.

 

[Sungazer]

Personally I’d say play it by ear. If you struggle while using 2h, or dual wield, swap to s&b. It all depends on the difficulty of the content you’re doing. Personally, as a SK, I much prefer being 2h, as it’s much better dps, and Agro, but In some content, it becomes dangerous to use 2h, so I swap to s&b

 

[da Man]

you can do what you want but when a live cleric smacks you around for making them work harder remember it was your choice to go 2 handed. anyway for the most part an sk wont be raid tanking, warriors do it first and best because that's all they do is tank

 

[Allurex]

Paladin great for offtanks but like sks and even worse spike damage hybrid tanks just don't have the pure migtigation that warriors have going shield

 

[Sungazer]

you can do what you want but when a live cleric smacks you around for making them work harder remember it was your choice to go 2 handed. anyway for the most part an sk wont be raid tanking, warriors do it first and best because that's all they do is tank

He’s talking about raid content while he’s boxing I assumed. I don’t know much about emu servers, maybe level 60 is the current max on his server and he’s talking about actual raiding, I was under the impression he was referring to older raid content, but in retrospect maybe I was incorrect in that assumption.

 

[da Man]

i envy you guys who are raid boxing, im not good enough to do that.

 

[Robban]

i envy you guys who are raid boxing, im not good enough to do that.

Give it some time, yo be da KING!

 

[da Man]

lol no, i know me and im lazy i wont even make more toons to do it

 

[TheEld3r]

Raid boxing is so much fun. Slightly stressfull first few times you do an encounter but once its all setup and the ball is rolling its fucking great sit back and relax.