Favorite Tank

[Xyphere]

Lets just speak in general. No specific monster/mob. Which is your favorite tank? Paladin, Ninja, or Warrior?

I personally like Paladin

[Rico]

Warrior.

[Cloudzero]

I love having pallies around, but since they're so few of them, I go with WARs and MNK's

[Thoronas]

I saw a lvl 75 war/rdm running around the other day. I thought that would be an interesting tank being able to use phalanx and other handy spells. Too bad he's already reached the limit :sweat:

[Kensaki]

war/nin: Can cause a good deal of dmg while still being a good tank with utsemi.

[Grissom]

I also enjoy the Paladin.

[Gryff]

Ninja/warrior up to 74, then war/nin becomes the *daddy*.

[Saedius]

Big difference in ninja's.

Rich ninja (can spam ninjitsu/throwing weapons) = Awesome

Poor ninja = oh God I'm going to die

[Ljarin]

Blink 1 & 2 loose some effectiveness when nin is sub (they absorb 1 less hit each than if nin is main job) while that may not seem a lot (it does make quite a difference so far that I've seen) nin also overall has better evade, and parry than a warrior. And that does make a big difference.

[Carbon]

PLD for me.

Best defense, takes less damage.

Has his/her own MP for cures - less cures for the WHM.

Seems to hold hate better than any WARs, and certainly any NINs I've partied with.

[Stormwalker]

PLD all the way. I've partied with a good NIN tank, and it was nice in that I hardly ever had to cure him... but I've also partied with some bad NIN tanks, and they can be really horrid. The PLD might take a little more damage, but, well, that's why I'm there. And don't even try to compare WAR tanks to PLD tanks, at least not at the levels I've played so far. Maybe it's just the difference in dedication--most PLD's are PLD's because they WANT to tank--but I've never had a WAR tank that can stand up to even an average PLD, much less an exceptional one.

When I'm playing my main job (WHM), I find myself becoming more and more reluctant to accept an invite from any party that doesn't have a PLD. There is no substitute.

[tomiko]

Utsusemi: Ichi as sub still absorbs 3 hits, as nin main does. 4sec cast
Utsusemi: Ni absorbs 3 hits as sub, but nin main absorbs 4 hits. 1.5sec cast

I like war cus they can be both dmg dealer and tank, but I cant argue with a nin's ability to avoid dmg and pal's ability to hold hate.

55 War/nin waiting for the long haul to lvl 74 ;_;

[Display]

I LOVE having a WAR/NIN support tank in a pt WITH a nin or pld. Works soooo nicely (being a thief, ninja is just as good) T

The WAR has to be good however, 99.99997% of the 50+ wars on Odin are Japanese on Odin anyway so thats not a problem. But yesterday my party was PLD/WAR/THF/MNK/BRD/RDM I could absolutely not pull fast enough we were the ONLY party in boyahda(mid day) and there was still not enough spawns, our only downtime was a lunch/breakfast break the group agreed upon. The War took 0-100 dmg starting the battle and outdamaged most darkknights, samurai and dragoon I pt with.
(sniper rings+scorpion harness surely helped)

[Kiyosuki]

This will sound very strange since I'm a Ninja myself, but if I'm not a Ninja and in a party, I tend to hope that the tank is a Pld. ;;

Why? Because its plainly simple, the track record of bad Paladins to bad Ninja's is pretty wide. I've met some very...very bad Paladins but they tend to do ok at they're job as there's not nearly as much to do as Ninja/Warrior needs to do, so theres less to screw up on. Inviting a Ninja into the party is like the ultimate uncertainty for me, because I don't know if the Ninja will be good or horrifically bad. Ninja's such an easy job to screw up on..

Personally it goes like this.

1) Ninja who's good and skillful, uses all Ninjutsu
1) (tied) Paladin, pretty hard to go wrong
2)Warrior, although at this point a Warrior tanking is kind of strange to me. I know they tank very well still, but they've kind of become damage dealers more lately who just happen to tank better than all other "damage dealers"
3) Bad Ninja's. ><

[TokeN]

Paladin = Sissy
Warrior = Juggernaut
Ninja = I STAND IN FRONT OF WHAT!?