Guard Suggestion

[KullOfValusia]

Show me a major protection fight where a DT is better than a Guard. Louhi, Thoth, Emperor, Zaal, not to mention the General in AI District (not even a raid boss). Guards are still awesome and I've seen them be awesome time and time again.

You're right I can't show you a fight where they are BETTER but on par and doing much more DPS, sure tons. Again if push come to shove and you had to pick between a DT and a guard... well there really isn't much going for the guard.

[TeamVernia]

You're right I can't show you a fight where they are BETTER but on par and doing much more DPS, sure tons. Again if push come to shove and you had to pick between a DT and a guard... well there really isn't much going for the guard.

Once again. Depends on the fight. Khitai 6-man circuits, though. DT/Conq all the way. In raids, Guards are badass.

[statica01]

You do realize after Louhi's shield goes up, the only way a dt is getting agro is with a dread? And conqs are only good for a FE here and there.


i suppose unless you kill the phalactories? i dunno, we never bother with those.

[-tomhet-]

guards have best survivability especialy against magic damage.
dt/cons bring as much dps or even better most of time as rogue/hox
so reasoning is why you want conq/dt to tank? guards do it awesomely already.
full t4 guard can hold dps better then a full t4 dt except on bosses with no magic mitigation there tables turn in favor dt spamming mystical banes.

[statica01]

but... but .. dt's are the magic tank!



ROFL sorry, couldnt resist x.x

[Evito]

Thread is full of fail, guards don't need buffing and you can't justify wanting it just because DTs are ridiculously overpowered... oh well.

i suppose unless you kill the phalactories? i dunno, we never bother with those.

what other way is there? Tanking and spanking it for a ridiculous amount of time? Can't kill it in 1 min anymore so...

[statica01]

what other way is there? Tanking and spanking it for a ridiculous amount of time? Can't kill it in 1 min anymore so...

eh... We kill it in around 5 to 6 minutes.

[Texan615]

what other way is there? Tanking and spanking it for a ridiculous amount of time? Can't kill it in 1 min anymore so...

We found we were taking just as long or longer, by killing the phylactries, so we also ignore them and just keep dps'ing the boss.

[Schmuls]

I kinda feel like I want to join in on this convertrolling, but I've always had aggro issues, which I haven't been able to get rid with the Guard revamp back then nor different speccs and/or gear while maintaining a proper rotation to hit unshielded sides with the good combos...

...that aside I don't even give a damn anymore. If either of the other main tanks feels like going all out to the point of being stupid and then at 10% QQing to want it getting taken off them...I'll let them die, period.

Not to mention all this perma Goading and FEing for no damn reason at all.

It's actually quite fun to pull Louhi or such, drop FE/Goad right off the bat just to put them on cooldown and watch the first tank die (which is not me :P) due to overaggroing with StA or thinking you can tap back health on him just because you usually can just fine.

You do realize after Louhi's shield goes up, the only way a dt is getting agro is with a dread?

Great...1 fight out of..100? that a Guard is actually more useful, amazing!

[Midge50]

hell, we got guards who lock aggro off of dts popping taunts in defensive stance doing 1700 dps on zodiac.

Why in the **** are your DTs spamming taunts in defensive stance at 1700 DPS when the Guard has "aggro locked?" Out of all the things that never happened in this thread, this never happened the most. For absolutely no reason should they not be full on DPS at that point. Your Guard clearly has things under control and does not need the assistance.

Edited by Arishanya to remove impolite language.