at endgame you only want a K/W as tank
heya, whats the advantage of k/w over wd/w btw?
The Authoritative Deterrence, thats all, those 3 seconds of burn. But thats enough.
Authoritative Deterrence is only part of it.
Current instance design (without pantheon)
- lots of % hits
- defense doesn't really matter (if you are above 800.000 maybe even less)
- bosses/trash have a really low hit rate (>40% dodge is quite common)
- you basically never miss (last i checked i was at ~98%)
- tactics usually are completely broken
Additionally:
- Players can reduce defense of bosses to 0.
So what do we do with all of the above?
=> We look which class combinations have the highest burn and which class combinations can be used to increase damage to ridiculous values.
K/W is the best combination for this:
- 50% of the bossfight basically immune to any % damage. [true for all knights]
- ridiculous damage increase for the party (Authoritative deterrence)
- permanent +26% light damage for the whole raid (only interesting for K/M)
Wd/W:
- no sustainable damage reduce (Feral Leader has 3 min CD)
- has better aggro skills => not required
- lack of good AoE aggro skills
- no party support for damage
For Pantheon this is quite different due to the high dodge rate of bosses (~50% depending on peaklevel).
Since this affects most skills, you just cannot stack all the buffs required to burn the bosses.
=> Other Tank classes get viable.
Our tank choices:
- K/W => usual choice
- K/P => if our tank doesn't want to tank as R/K OR group doesn't have a Warlock OR main damage is W/M.
- Wd/W => No knight around or knight doesn't want to tank.
Pantheon -> K/W only if K/M is in party.
Back to the topic:
Heal:
- D/Wd: easiest to play, mdd support
- D/R: good overall support
- D/W: pdd support
Tank:
- Wd/W
DD:
- W/M: mdd
- Wd/W: pdd
- W/Wd: pdd
- Wd/S: pdd, good party support
- S/Wd: pdd, not viable in Pantheon -> really bad hit rate
- S/R: pdd, not viable in Pantheon -> really bad hit rate
- K/M: pdd, not viable in Pantheon -> not enough patk
Support:
- M/D [mdef reduce]