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Question - War vs SK - would you rather

cintile

cintile

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so i have a 113 SK with 1.5 or an War persona. The Warrior persona, has the added benefit of having a ton of heroic AA from doing most of the content on my 130 BST. The warrior is 109. I have CWTN on SK also but no on War. Which tank would you go with? I'm working with a caster group of Dru/Mag/Enc and two mercs.
 
cintile said:
so i have a 113 SK with 1.5 or an War persona. The Warrior persona, has the added benefit of having a ton of heroic AA from doing most of the content on my 130 BST. The warrior is 109. I have CWTN on SK also but no on War. Which tank would you go with? I'm working with a caster group of Dru/Mag/Enc and two mercs.
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Just curious what do the personas do and what is the benefit of having one for a diff class on the same account?
 
I do missions on farm mode to gather items to sell in the bazaar. I found that the warrior’s better “beefiness” on some missions allowed for success where my SK persona got one-shotted. In a group grind, the SK will probably shine higher.
 
I’ve got a warrior and an SK in raid gear.

For group and emergency situations, SK wins hands down. AE aggro with a glyph + epic, I’ve filled my xtarget up and worked through them.

For raid content, the warrior is just beefier and spikes less. And when they want single target aggro - they get it.

So it depends on your end game. If I had to choose only 1, it would be the SK.

Edit: I will add that warriors are fine for group and more than once I’ve tanked raid bosses on my SK.
 
Reason for considering War is because of having all that Heroic AA done, and just the bags and other items. Downside is, because ive done all the progression, i wouldn't have that as an option for Exp, i would have to grind all the way up from 109 - 130.
 
cintile said:
Reason for considering War is because of having all that Heroic AA done, and just the bags and other items. Downside is, because ive done all the progression, i wouldn't have that as an option for Exp, i would have to grind all the way up from 109 - 130.
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If you have SoR not that huge to grind, the mobs give decent enough reg xp (aboyt 10x what they did in tob/ls) because of personas being locked out of the XP quest bumps.
 
afortner87 said:
Just curious what do the personas do and what is the benefit of having one for a diff class on the same account?
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Persona inherits all of your achievements, keys/flags, evolving items, no drop gear, etc. So if you have a bunch of rare clickies or super grindy stuff like Artisan's Prize, Tears of Alaris, etc. all of that can be used by the persona. If you raid current content, the persona can use your all/all non-vis items. So not having to reacquire all of that makes it the better choice. TBH, there's not much reason to have an alt on the same account anymore unless you've already created/leveled it.

to the OP: SK is super OP on it's own if you're playing it. If you're just going to bot it for group content using MQ, it won't matter much.
 
Many_Whelps said:
Persona inherits all of your achievements, keys/flags, evolving items, no drop gear, etc. So if you have a bunch of rare clickies or super grindy stuff like Artisan's Prize, Tears of Alaris, etc. all of that can be used by the persona. If you raid current content, the persona can use your all/all non-vis items. So not having to reacquire all of that makes it the better choice. TBH, there's not much reason to have an alt on the same account anymore unless you've already created/leveled it.

to the OP: SK is super OP on it's own if you're playing it. If you're just going to bot it for group content using MQ, it won't matter much.
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I plan to drive the War or SK. I think ill stick it out with War, i just need to learn to play it since i dont have the CWTN for it.
 
Both are great, SK is generally the pick as they are a much more versatile group tank, but warriors manage just fine. If the way is going to save you time and you dont care either way, then your choice is made! have fun
 
If you have access to raid gear, it doesn't matter either way in the group game honestly. However, I lean towards warrior in the group geared game because of the lower AA requirements and during the gearing up phase, their HP won't bounce around nearly as much, so it's less headache for the gear up period every year. The difference can be easily seen if you have ever skipped 3 expansions before. Warrior beats SK easily in that scenario simply because the hp doesn't bounce around like a crack head on amphetamines. If you're relatively up to date, you won't notice it either way, so it comes down to the SK having superior AE aggro.
 
i know eq is a game of inches and i have all my heroic aa so i understanding wanting them but i think you are putting to much emphasis on them. heroic vitality gives you 2350 hp if you have them all up to nos. heroic reso gives you 235 sta dex agi and heroic fort gives you 78ac and this is before soft cap ac im fairly sure. reso is obviously the strongest one.

if you want them just go back and do the ones that dont require hunter. questing out savior in cotf -tov doesnt take long and doing vanq to get savior in cov-tob probably takes even less time.

with that said i have a nos raid geared war and a nos raid geared sk and outside of tanking the raid boss my warrior uses a 2h at all times and is a fake beserker. sk is alot better at tanking group content and having threat on multiple mobs it also has adps and group sustain helping. bite aa gives everyone mana and endurance. tvyls is a huge melee buff and their 2.0 basically turns melee dps into tanks for 2mins. as long as my dps dont get one rounded they instantly heal all dmg back up.
 
I thought they fixed the Heroic AA issue with personas? Shouldn't they be sharing those AA if it is achievement based?

I run SK. Ever come across an NPC that is like impossible to kill? Ya ... they are probably the NPC version of a SK.

Edit: Found it....

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I'm a Pally guy so I'm fairly impartial. But the CTWN is a massive pro. That would swing it for it for me. He's just going to do more damage and you need that with your group makeup.
 
I did decide to stick with the SK, just trying to learn it. I don't always want CWTN doing all the work lol. Well, trying to learn to play it well I should say. I did level it to 110 the old school way.
 
Nice! I have both. The SK is EZ mode, but I find the war more fun. If it's a persona, just level both and have fun with it.
 
I have main a War for 25 years and Love him, But i raid with him. For group content its hard to beat a knight IMO.
 
cintile said:
so i have a 113 SK with 1.5 or an War persona. The Warrior persona, has the added benefit of having a ton of heroic AA from doing most of the content on my 130 BST. The warrior is 109. I have CWTN on SK also but no on War. Which tank would you go with? I'm working with a caster group of Dru/Mag/Enc and two mercs.
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@cintile for most group stuff either will be fine, if you're looking to take on anything serious (raid) i'd go war...beefier and not dependent on casting to survive...specially true if you face stuff that silences (prevents you from casting)...pal/sk's can struggle in those scenarios.

If you have a real cleric behind any of those 3 choices you'll be fine regardless...if you're using weak healers (druids/shamans)...war would be my pick

Knight GIF
 
for those of us who are slackers, like me, we have a single main toon, which we may also raid that isn't a tank. The tank is then group geared just enough to do the content then we don't care anymore. In that scenario, war is very much superior to the knights.

have very little in the way of augs and don't have the BIS for any character other than my main. My group is very much about supporting the toon I raid, and getting content done. Back when I used to try to max/min, and it burned me out, I had only 3 toons and I got bored trying to keep them all up to date :P
 
zarroth said:
for those of us who are slackers, like me, we have a single main toon, which we may also raid that isn't a tank. The tank is then group geared just enough to do the content then we don't care anymore. In that scenario, war is very much superior to the knights.

have very little in the way of augs and don't have the BIS for any character other than my main. My group is very much about supporting the toon I raid, and getting content done. Back when I used to try to max/min, and it burned me out, I had only 3 toons and I got bored trying to keep them all up to date :P
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Just goes to show how important meta considerations like this can be to the discussion
 
afortner87 said:
Just curious what do the personas do and what is the benefit of having one for a diff class on the same account?
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Its basically an alt, but on the same toon so you retain achievements (collects, hero AAs, Keys, Flags etc)

Downside is you need to manage gear and augs for each persona. So if you swap gear or share gear between two different classes, it can be a bit of a pain going back and forth. Thankfully with type 3s being removeable now, its a lot easier to manage this if you have 2 of the same archtype personas that share non-vis (pally/SK)
 
zarroth said:
for those of us who are slackers, like me, we have a single main toon, which we may also raid that isn't a tank. The tank is then group geared just enough to do the content then we don't care anymore. In that scenario, war is very much superior to the knights.

have very little in the way of augs and don't have the BIS for any character other than my main. My group is very much about supporting the toon I raid, and getting content done. Back when I used to try to max/min, and it burned me out, I had only 3 toons and I got bored trying to keep them all up to date :P
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Same here. At this point, my alts exist to support the main character.

Deciding between 115 war and 125 sk. While sk is definitely more fun to play, I'm leaning towards a war.
 
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