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Best tank?
Between Lancer, Brawler, Berserker and Warrior, which one is the best?
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but I do like my ninja and valk (who are also lvl 65 too) more than my brawler , also have an archer gunner and reaper at 65
Lancer is durable as hell and has great support
Warrior is the hardest to play but when played well is really good at dps support and survivablity,
Berserker is berserker.
"Best" is just what you want to bring to the party. If you like doing a ton of damage then go brawler, if you want to support your party go lancer, if you want a challenge play warrior, If you want to be "that guy" play berserker.
Lancer is the best hands down tank due to party buffs. Nothing beats a nice low ping lancer.
War was basically even with brawler, but the new cross parry edge and attack speed buff is pretty amazing. A low ping (30-50ms) warrior, who is very skilled, will do about the same dps as an equally geared brawler, but will now provide party buffs, pushing them ahead. Low ping, highly skilled wars are few and far between, so don't hold your breath.
Good brawlers are great tanks. People constantly say EZ mode, but then the +0 twistshard comes in that won't use shout, won't re-position, can't keep up GF etc comes in. Brawler was given buffs so that the average mid-high ping player could tank effectively, thus providing a greater pool of tanks to the rest of the population. If you are in a party with a great brawler enjoy. If you are in a party with mediocre brawler, be glad you aren't still in lfg looking for a lancer for the next 30 minutes.
Zerk can tank anything (except HH,) and has arguably the easiest time holding aggro in any other dungeon. That said, Zerk is bad tank, and the tank of last resort. Zerk lacks 2 things that would make it an effective tank. infuriate, and some sort of frontal crit enhancement in d stance. No infuriate means that on any boss who does not automatically enrage at 99% (tree in DFNM/HM,) each fight will take 30-50% longer than a fight with any other tank. You will still clear, the tank might never lose aggro or die, but it will take longer. Longer fights, less clears, less loot, etc. In addition, Zerk's DPS is substantially impacted. A frontal crit power enhancement like Wars would help out immensely.
Low ping? Play lancer.
Low ping, experienced, and want to test your skills? Play warrior.
New to tanking? Play brawler, git gud.
Zerk? Have fun, enjoy yourself, but don't expect a million invites.
A skilled lancer can do a lot of DPS too. With just stormcry +2, I did close to 1.2m on my lancer and top lancers already passed 1.5m.
I know that brawlers damage will always be higher than lancers but lancers aren’t too far behind. In addition to decent DPS, lancers provide buffs that benefit the damage dealers in the party.
Brawlers are not OP in PvE. They do good dmg but that’s really all they got. There’s a reason why ppl want lancers in serious score runs.
You are extremely tanky, do respectable DPS, and your party buffs/boss debuffs add considerable amounts of DPS to your carries.
You also have Kaia's shield which is a god-send when dealing with flat damage mechanics, as well as Iron Will to ignore massive amounts of incoming damage.
The only thing I ever had a problem with when playing Lancer is the reliance on Hold the Line stacks to maintain higher DPS either when solo'ing or when trying to hold aggro from very high DPS carries, because when you get knocked down your stacks reset and you lose a considerable amount of DPS and aggro generation.
However, as long as you can stay on your feet, you can do some pretty crazy DPS despite being a 'tank only' kind of class.
PS: I run both Brawler and Lancer, but I'm a Lancer main.... so you know... I'm not bias at all or anything :P
lancer need more love, have a hold line pasive or make less stacks can be get more easy be lancer ( each stack get 12 crit, 8 %agroo and 6 power instead 6,4,3 in pve like now ) ,
this means you can get more easy stacks htl ( sometimes im die cuz im try to stack more fast when dps are to strong), less stacks and more buff from each stak do efective dps buff for lancer, make more mainable