1 Tanker only

Okay, just a few responses to the thread in general:

First, at Tanker Tuesdays we do help people learn to Tank. We may not announce the Tanking 101 stuff at every gathering, but we do tend to show and employ most of the better Tanking tactics (which can be somewhat difficult as a keeping a mass of Tankers from jumping into mobs and mopping the floor with them, prior to explaining tactics, is pretty much impossible). But, we do try our best to bestow as much of our Tanking knowledge as possible as well as pass on build advice and lessons learned from our own experiences.

Second, we've pretty much run all the TF/Trials with all Tanks (the point of Tanker Tuesdays). Just did an all Tanker BAF on Champion...

Third, yes, in the process of all the chaos, mass of mobs, and general banter, we tend to have a lot of fun!

Forth, I like having two or more Tanks on team, especially the folks from TT.

So to sum up, I've never been disappointed in running with more than one Tank on a team, but to each their own.

Well. The Tank should be using there Mez protection to avoid that....


OH, you mean Rommie. Nvm.

If I had to pick a perfect team (and I don't really build teams like this), I would start with support sets, because they make the entire team perform better. After that, I'd look for controls, then AOE damage, then ST damage. A team full of Controllers has support, controls and damage of all sorts. That's why Controllers are a preferred AT. The more of them you add to the team, the better the team performs, without any upper limit on just how good they can get.

I like Tankers a lot, especially as a focal point for AOEs, but they have weak damage and their brand of control doesn't slow damage, it just focuses the damage. That's fine if the Tanker can survive it, but not all can. I love tight packs of targets, so I like to see one Tanker or Brute grabbing aggro on a team. A second doesn't really add much, though, because their damage is just too weak.

Are Brutes valid Tanker replacements? The lack of punchvoke means that things can escape a little more often. They have less HP and weaker defensive powers, so they aren't as survivable. They also don't have Bruising. That said, if they can manage enough survivability, then their offense makes them a very nice step up from Tankers. Again, a second doesn't really bring much to the table, though the damage means I'd rather have a second Brute than a second Tanker.

Whenever I am on a team with another tank I do my best to work together with the other tank to avoid conflicts. I usually have good experience working with other tanks.

So far I have not been rejected from joining a team for being a tank but I have had messages saying they are looking for damage or buffers/debuffers.

Some people are very selective about what ATs are on their teams.

I hate that ****. When I put out a call to do a TF or a trial, I take the first 7 people who show up. I really don't care what AT they are. Someone tells me I have to change my toon to join their team, then I tell them to go **** themselves with a rusty chainsaw and I move on to do something better.

Too often I see some tanker decide to pull mobs back, somit i might do 1-3 times in a mish, but they do it every time like the perception range of the grp nearby is twice that of what it is and when they do it they pass 3 good potential herdpoints rather than take the first potential one, this doesnt annoy me as I was young once and can only give perfection when I am expecting it off of others but I guess TT can have ppl get away with saying "stop, wth ya doing?" and correct whereas in normal teams the possible expected result is "I play my way".

To be fair, this occurence happened very early in the game for me. And It never happened since. I just wondered if you others got hit with this.

In terms of damage its true Tankers don't serve up the same kind of smackdown as other AT's, but having said that, a Tanker with most of their attacks 6 slotted can hit very hard. But where a tanker is most valuable is their ability to engage multiple foes.

ive been on teams with 4 tanks/brutes at one time and no one had been asked to changed. IMO if you are requested to change because someone else has a higher lvl tank I would just quit the team because that is just not right to deny someone the right to lvl up their tank and experience the TF.

I am not an AT snob and usually do not mind if I have several tanks on a team. The only time I really mind it and it might bother me a little is when I want to complete a mission/tf/trial quickly and tanks, generally, make this slower than a toon with more dps. At these times I'd rather have 7 blasters/corruptors and one tank! But generally, if a player knows how to play, any AT is good.

Wow thread necromancy

Still a relevant discussion

Generally this game is forgiving enough that it shouldn't matter if you have an extra tanker or not, but for whatever it's worth, I think that extra tankers are probably the least "stackable" extra AT in the game.

Sure you could argue that an extra tank can grab an extra spawn, handle overflow aggro etc. but all in all, I would argue that you get more mileage on the whole from something else.

After I 22 this "everyone else" will also include stalkers, if it doesn't already.

Nobody is perfect. In that regard, having a 'backup' tank isn't a bad idea. The lead tank might miss some guys or go over aggro cap. Then the squishies might need some help. As others have said you're better off with another team.