guardian tank...second account Temp or Mystic

[Barok]

<DIV>hi guys. looking for some experienced healers honest opinions here. i have a guardian as my main now. gonna start a second account in the next week or so. which would you suggest and why? temp or mystic? i do do alot of instances at high end  and some raiding.  more or less this way i can have a build off of a core group anytime i want.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>all help appreciated and thanks.</DIV>

[Raistlan]

I'd say Templar - Mystics depend a lot on having debuffs up all to reduce the damage, with a Templar you can pretty much just lean over and cycle reactives for most content, this way you can spend more time on your guardian tanking and getting the stuff dead.<div></div>

[Rin]

<DIV>If you are more of a solo player, I'd go with the Mystic over Templar.</DIV> <DIV>I have a level 36 Temp as my main and a 21 Mystic... and so far, the Mystic wins for fun factor.  I don't group a whole lot, but so far when I have grouped on my mystic, I haven't had any trouble keeping the group up.  Yes, I'm still playing low level characters though, so this is only my .02.</DIV>

[Idoru]

Guardian = TemplarMonk = Mystic<div></div>Ideally of course. As a Templar I find myself having to heal for Monks and Bruisers i.e. avoidance tanks, a lot anyway, and it's a challenge. I need to keep all my available reactives and debuff/heals up to keep them in top form, and then still throw in an active heal now and then. With Gardians and other plate tanks, the reactive is often enough if I keep it running. I don't dislike healing Monks by any stretch, they are just more effort, and I have all the more respect for tanking monks who can hold agro becase I have a good monk tank for an alt, and I've pulled agro from sorry monks who didn't even know they had an encounter taunt. Plate tanks are less variable, they all know they need armor and taunts, and that just makes it easier when your tank know's what s/he's doing. One thing you'll want to keep in mind if you're two-boxing, don't move if your templar is on auto-follow, and don't do the reactive before the pull. For the prior, your cast will interupt on Priest movement, and the latter will draw agro to the priest. My favorite tanks use their taunts either to pull, or use it second after a ranged pull, and then they don't move around too much. I love to be able to put the MT on auto-follow and then instead of concentrating on keeping up with everyone, I can concentrate on keeping everyone up. Nothing is worse than trying to cast a last minute heal when I'm on AF and the tank moves interupting it. I get enough fizzles and interupts from taking hits, don't need movement ones too.