shard gear suck?

[Stabbath]

<p>I heard shard gear is great, but I just aint seeing it. The mount is. Um, the rest of the stuff I prefer my Kunark stuff I got from quests lol. Monks get screwed, or is it good, and I'm just not seeing it? I don't tank btw, since it's pointless with other classes who are better, I try and be good at dps and off tanking.</p><p>Also, there no shard weapons!? I was hoping for new weapons, I think mine suck<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Here's my gear, any recommendations or critiques is much welcome. Like, should I really give up my fabled necklace for that shard crap? Sure you get bonuses with other pieces, but are the bonuses really worth it?</p><p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/characters/character_profile.vm?characterId=1149395121" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://eq2players.station.sony.com/...erId=1149395121</a></p>

[Herme]

<p>Scroll all the way down.  I know a monk who parses 7k+ wearing the wilderness warrior set with fabled epic and another weapon.  Each class really has 2 sets to choose from.  And from what I understand the group heal procs a ton off the 5 piece set only giving you even more option and viability in a group setting.  Hope this helps, even though it's a really short reply with little info.</p>

[ShinGoku]

<p>IMO, the shard gear does suck.</p><p>I'm rocking mostly lvl 77 MC and some other quested / brought gear and none of the two sets is any better than what I currently have.  Even the jewelry is lacklustre IMO.</p><p>Its really not worth playing a monk anymore, plain and simple.</p>

[JinjAB]

<p>Have to agree that the jewellery is..Meh.</p><p>The piece worth getting though is the shoulders; I saved up for the Tier 2 "Jin" set right away - a bonus to CA damage of 8% has to be good, with no penalties like the choker or jewel <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Stabbath]

<p>I'm on Vox server. I can't find any level 77 mc<img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> Bunch of 72 though.</p><p>I get completely owned in pvp. Probably by people with raid gear I'm guessing.</p>

[Morrolan V]

<p>Gotta pick and choose.  The Wilderness Warrior set is better than the Jin Drake in several slots.</p><p>The Jin Drake shoulders rock.</p>

[Junaru]

<p>My main reason for the shard gear is the proc. My Monk often pulls aggro off the tank so the proc helps. But the shoulder items are better then VP or TSO raid shoulds IMHO. Also the jin boots are pretty nice. If you are wearing the Paw buster boots these are an upgrade. Don't forget the T1 Gi is 3% uncontested avoidance for like 15 shards.</p>

[Dimhammer]

<p>I guess it's all perspective.  I love the Shard armor for my Monk.  It was a major upgrade to most of my gear.  But then again I didn't have any Fabled gear to speak of.</p>

[Turb]

<p>The shard set is OK for instances, but there's little to attract a raider.</p><p>The shoulders seem nice, but 8% CA bonus for a monk isn't really that good, since we do so much damage by autoattack and we have no big-hitting CAs except for Dev Fist.</p><p>There's some OK shoulders off the 2nd name in Tomb, which casual guilds should be able to kill reasonably easily:</p><p>aITEM 1836471940 1883803286:[Captain's Cursed Spaulders]/a</p><p>Whether you wear them probably depends on your dps buff.</p><p>The important news is that as of LU51 we *should* be able to trade shards between toons on the same account, so don't blow shards on fluff mounts just yet <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Stabbath]

<p>I have several pieces of quarrelsome gear, which I have a hard time giving up for shard gear. That's my main issue<img src="/eq2/images/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" /> The second shard tier mitigation is a little better, but that's about it.</p><p>So far I have the monk shard boots and hat. If I get anymore shard gear, it'l probably be some of the healer armor.</p><p>Now, I like the shard pattern drop armor btw, but guild won't let me raid for it til I get shard armor grrrr.</p>

[xKHONSx]

<p>I think I'm missing something here.  Even the first tier of shard armor is far superior to the Quarrelsome set.  I'm so confused by what you could possibly be seeing that I directly compared stats between the two sets to see if I could find any reason whatsoever someone would want Quarrelsome and I'm still baffled.</p><p>Comparing 6 pieces of Quarrelsome (minus Wristguards since there is no forearm option available on the shard merchants) this is what I found:</p><ul><li>Quarrelsome:  137 str, 171 sta, 96 agi, 685 hp, 685 power, 2180 mitigation</li><li>Combatant's:  155 str, 252 sta, 127 agi, 1000 hp, 340 power, 2108 mitigation, 14 defense, 20 deflection</li></ul><p>So in basic stats alone the Combatant's set easily trumps Quarrelsome, but then there are also the bonuses on the sets which are as follows:</p><ul><li>Quarrelsome:  2 DA, 2 Atk Speed, 125 CA dmg (including 3-set bonus), 2 Crit, 6-set bonus with an encounter proc and a 5% hurricane type proc that can only be used when the main 6-set proc is up...which makes it absolute garbage.</li><li>Combatant's:  3 DA, 3 Atk Speed, 85 CA dmg, 9 Crit, 35 haste, 5% base CA dmg and 3 riposte chance.</li></ul><p>In bonuses the Combatant's set trumps Quarrelsome once again.  Add in the fact that the second tier armor gets even more powerful and there isn't even a comparison.  Also, for dps purposes the Wilderness set is also superior to Quarrelsome and some pieces are slightly better than the Combatant's/Jin Drake sets.</p><p>I'm also missing something in regards to the person who said that the 77 mastercrafted gear is superior to shard purchased gear.</p><p>I'm not saying shard gear is awesome stuff, but compared to things like mastercrafted, Quarrelsome and quested legendary it is vastly superior.  There are plenty of pieces that can be upgraded out of instances, but considering how easily attainable shard armor is it's decent stuff.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p>

[Valenx]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p>

[kodomo sunsoar]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p></blockquote><p>And then there sre some of us who have no intention of wanting to be tanks on our monks.  If I want to be a tank I will level up my SK, Pally or Zerker.  All my AA's have been put towards DPS and I am not a raider and really don't want tank. </p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>kodomo sunsoar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p></blockquote><p>And then there sre some of us who have no intention of wanting to be tanks on our monks.  If I want to be a tank I will level up my SK, Pally or Zerker.  All my AA's have been put towards DPS and I am not a raider and really don't want tank. </p></blockquote><p>You shouldn't be a fighter if you don't want to tank.  That's like being a rogue and not wanting to DPS.</p>

[circusgirl]

<p>I really enjoy being a hybrid class, to be completely honest.  Both dpsing and tanking are fun, and it sure makes getting groups easier when you can do both!</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Vinka@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I really enjoy being a hybrid class, to be completely honest.  Both dpsing and tanking are fun, and it sure makes getting groups easier when you can do both!</p></blockquote><p>Too bad we can't do either very well.</p>

[kodomo sunsoar]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>kodomo sunsoar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p></blockquote><p>And then there sre some of us who have no intention of wanting to be tanks on our monks.  If I want to be a tank I will level up my SK, Pally or Zerker.  All my AA's have been put towards DPS and I am not a raider and really don't want tank. </p></blockquote><p>You shouldn't be a fighter if you don't want to tank.  That's like being a rogue and not wanting to DPS.</p></blockquote><p>I picked a monk 4 years ago when game started because I was a monk in EQ1.  I din't tank as a monk in EQ1 either.  I could probably tank if I had the right gear and AA setup but I still feel better in a role of DPS.  Maybe we can't do same DPS as a scout but I still think we do ok.  You play the game your way and I will play mine.  To say I shouldn't have picked a monk/fighter if I didn't want to tank is a ridiculous statement to make and an elitist comment at worse, which the boards seem to be full of.</p>

[Morgane]

<p>*shrug* I'm spec'd and geared for DPS and I usually parse around 3000k. I'm not much of a tank even with my Guard so I have a feeling I'd be horrible with my Monk. LOL Some of us just aren't tanks, no matter what class we play.</p><p>I happen to love my Monk and I think that while we aren't Masters of DPS and we aren't Masters of tanking, we make up for it by being the best solo class in the game.</p><p>So anyway.... yeah, I'd like to see better shard armor.</p>

[Morgane]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>You shouldn't be a fighter if you don't want to tank.  That's like being a rogue and not wanting to DPS.</blockquote><p>Pffft. Not true. That's like saying that no one should be a scout unless they want to DPS but we all know dirges and troubs are scouts and used more for utility than dps.</p><p>I don't think people should "pigeon-hole" any class. Monks can either tank or DPS and on occasion can do a little of both. We can't DPS like an assassin (who can?) and we can't tank like a Paladin or a Guard but we can do both well enough to get by.</p><p>Monks are a hybrid class... if you wanna be a DPS monk then by all means, go for it. Lord knows we rarely get the chance to tank anyway. LOL</p>

[Stabbath]

<p>anyone know of a page in which has the healer shard armor side by side with the monk shard armor? Trying to compare, but have a hard time remembering everything in game when I look at it. I'm wanting a dps build. Better to mix between healer and monk class, or go all one kind?</p>

[Couching]

<p>Frankly speaking, for monk, it's harder to find a group as dpser. Instead, it's so easy to get a group if you are willing to tank.</p><p>Besides, our Tso aa and Tso gear are tank oriented. It sucks for monks who like to play dps role rather than tank.</p><p>With the new change on test server, we will be screwed since most fighter gear will be added + taunt/taunt crit instead of crit/da. No more freedom as a hybrid class should be.</p>

[Ol]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>kodomo sunsoar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p></blockquote><p>And then there sre some of us who have no intention of wanting to be tanks on our monks.  If I want to be a tank I will level up my SK, Pally or Zerker.  All my AA's have been put towards DPS and I am not a raider and really don't want tank. </p></blockquote><p>You shouldn't be a fighter if you don't want to tank.  That's like being a rogue and not wanting to DPS.</p></blockquote><p>Rouges are supposed to be debuffs. Besides brawlers are supposed to be the DPS tanks</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Olik@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>kodomo sunsoar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p></blockquote><p>And then there sre some of us who have no intention of wanting to be tanks on our monks.  If I want to be a tank I will level up my SK, Pally or Zerker.  All my AA's have been put towards DPS and I am not a raider and really don't want tank. </p></blockquote><p>You shouldn't be a fighter if you don't want to tank.  That's like being a rogue and not wanting to DPS.</p></blockquote><p>Rouges are supposed to be debuffs. Besides brawlers are supposed to be the DPS tanks</p></blockquote><p>Rogues are also DPS.  I would have said predator but that would be an exaggeration since monks aren't the purest tanks in the game.</p>

[kodomo sunsoar]

<p><cite>Couching@Crushbone wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Frankly speaking, for monk, it's harder to find a group as dpser. Instead, it's so easy to get a group if you are willing to tank.</p><p>Besides, our Tso aa and Tso gear are tank oriented. It sucks for monks who like to play dps role rather than tank.</p><p>With the new change on test server, we will be screwed since most fighter gear will be added + taunt/taunt crit instead of crit/da. No more freedom as a hybrid class should be.</p></blockquote><p>I would agree with this.  I am by no means an elite monks, not in a raiding guild and have piecemeal armor with some shard pieces and just got my fabled on the weekend.  I have gone LFG in the 70-79 and 80 channel saying I am looking as DPS role rather than a tank position and had people question me.  Looks like the only time I am going to get a group now is on weekend with guild doing shard runs or other fun instances.</p><p>Being an Aussie and in a US based guild means grouping chances at least for my monk are limited.  Too bad we didn't sign up on Najena when we moved across as a guild. </p><p>Gives me time to level a few more toons up I guess. </p>

[Turb]

<p>I can see the same writing on the wall as Couching.</p><p>So sadly I've gone back to my brigand.    Maybe SOE will 'fix' monks someday.    There have been lots of good suggestions here on how to do that, especially by Couching.</p><p>The main beef is AE autoattack, or lack of AE aggro tools in general.  Where we have had nice improvements (e.g. STR line, removing stun on Iron Stance) we see steps backwards too (e.g. strikethrough on tsunami, lack of TSO AAs to boost dps).</p><p>As dps I can do fine, and surprise a few people who don't consider monk as capable of 'high' dps.    We can offtank/dps instances well, picking up stray mobs, covering for the MT going down, and adding avoid/altruism buffs.</p><p>But the upcoming changes just prove the devs don't 'get' our problems.   Or don't want to listen.</p>

[Troy]

<p><cite>Ratius@Splitpaw wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I can see the same writing on the wall as Couching.</p><p>So sadly I've gone back to my brigand.    Maybe SOE will 'fix' monks someday.    There have been lots of good suggestions here on how to do that, especially by Couching.</p><p>The main beef is AE autoattack, or lack of AE aggro tools in general.  Where we have had nice improvements (e.g. STR line, removing stun on Iron Stance) we see steps backwards too (e.g. strikethrough on tsunami, lack of TSO AAs to boost dps).</p><p>As dps I can do fine, and surprise a few people who don't consider monk as capable of 'high' dps.    We can offtank/dps instances well, picking up stray mobs, covering for the MT going down, and adding avoid/altruism buffs.</p><p>But the upcoming changes just prove the devs don't 'get' our problems.   Or don't want to listen.</p></blockquote><p>I could not agree more. Maybe it s time to go perpetually camp the monk at ‘Sinking Sands’ - at least give the class a dignified retirement - And just cave in and make one of the cooky-cutter classes that’s now used in the cooky-cutter raid groups where brawlers are on bottom of the list. Sony has not done any improvement to the brawlers - Even the TSO jewelry sets seem to scream out - Not for a brawler.</p><p>I keep trying to see where a monk really fits in a raid group. The rogues and casters pretty much out dps the monk now- where does the monk fit?</p>

[Wildfury77]

<p>Well I'm only just back after 6 months off and am still getting T2 shard armor.....BUT did get allowed to fill a DPS spot on my guilds raid when a player had to leave halfway through.</p><p>I got to observe why every decent raid guild has one monk on a raid.....Our guilds main raid monk is absolutely awesome (in TSO fabled+adorns & mythical). She parses well BUT her true role appeared to be saving the raid from whiping. MT went down and she would peel/rescue and hold the x4 easily while the PTank was rezzed + rebuffed. Above average DPS + awesome raid-saving tank.....with decent raid-wide buff!! Why would you NOT take one monk on your raid? Watching her emergency-MT makes me believe she could actually MT fullstop. Our guild healers certainly believe it would be possible.</p><p>I watched this process on several TSO raid MOBs....Something for me to aspire to.</p><p>As far as shard armor is concerned, I completed T1 in 6-7 days and am working on T2. The T3 stuff will enable me to MT effectively and hopefully let me obtain a role in either raid force 1 or 2 if our main monk is away. Even in T1 shard armor i'm MTing 75% of the TSO instances with no problems. The T3 stuff looks like nice tanking armor. And lets face it - we are TANKS first and foremost.</p>

[BChizzle]

<p><cite>kodomo sunsoar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Valenx@Nagafen wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The shard gear only sucks if you think you're a DPS class.</p></blockquote><p>Well we're certaintly not a tank class...not anymore</p></blockquote><p>Maybe not for raiding but any brawler who know how to play makes a better group tank than a DPS.</p></blockquote><p>And then there sre some of us who have no intention of wanting to be tanks on our monks.  If I want to be a tank I will level up my SK, Pally or Zerker.  All my AA's have been put towards DPS and I am not a raider and really don't want tank. </p></blockquote><p>Monks are tanks, end of story.  That doesn't mean you have to tank, but that is our class.</p>

[Morgane]

<p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>Monks are tanks, end of story.  That doesn't mean you have to tank, but that is our class.</blockquote><p>Perhaps, but if so then we are the least desired tank. Oh sure, there are some Monks out there who can kick a** and tank anything but for your average player that isn't decked out in Fabled gear we are not going to be the first choice for a group looking for a tank. If a Guard, Pally or zerker is available then the group will likely choose one of those over the Monk. At least, that's my experience. Then again, I suck at tanking so maybe it's just me! lol </p><p>We are a fighting class, no arguments there, right? But as I said above, I tend to see us a hybrid class. We should (and can) be able to tank when need be and DPS when need be. Personally, I've geared up and set my AA's towards doing damage more than tanking. I'm never at the top of the parse (especially since the nerf to Dev Fist) but in a group situation I'm always in the top three as far as damage goes. Haven't raided in quite awhile so can't say where my raid parse would be now. Used to be in the middle somewhere.</p><p>Anyway... guess my point is that if you want to pigeon-hole us into a tank roll, then so be it. But we are the <strong>DPS tank class </strong>and the shard gear I've seen out there doesn't do much for my DPS.  I've got three pcs of the brawler gear and will try three pcs of the Wilderness gear next.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p><cite>Morgane@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>Monks are tanks, end of story.  That doesn't mean you have to tank, but that is our class.</blockquote><p><span style="color: #808080;">Perhaps, but if so then we are the least desired tank. Oh sure, there are some Monks out there who can kick a** and tank anything but for your average player that isn't <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>decked out in Fabled</em></span></strong> gear we are not going to be the first choice for a group looking for a tank.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">That's not true.  I can tank well and have only legendary without my epic.</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080;">Anyway... guess my point is that if you want to pigeon-hole us into a tank roll, then so be it. But we are the <strong>DPS tank class </strong>and <em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">the </span></strong></em></span><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #808080;">shard gear I've seen out there doesn't do much for my DPS. </span></span></strong></em><span style="color: #808080;"> I've got three pcs of the brawler gear and will try three pcs of the Wilderness gear next.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Good, we have to much DPS oriented gear as is.  It's about time brawlers got some real defensive gear.</span></p></blockquote>

[Morgane]

<p><cite>Lethe5683 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Morgane@Everfrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>BChizzle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>Monks are tanks, end of story.  That doesn't mean you have to tank, but that is our class.</blockquote><p><span style="color: #808080;">Perhaps, but if so then we are the least desired tank. Oh sure, there are some Monks out there who can kick a** and tank anything but for your average player that isn't <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>decked out in Fabled</em></span></strong> gear we are not going to be the first choice for a group looking for a tank.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">That's not true.  I can tank well and have only legendary without my epic.</span></p><p><span style="color: #808080;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #808080;">Anyway... guess my point is that if you want to pigeon-hole us into a tank roll, then so be it. But we are the <strong>DPS tank class </strong>and <em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">the </span></strong></em></span><em><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #808080;">shard gear I've seen out there doesn't do much for my DPS. </span></span></strong></em><span style="color: #808080;"> I've got three pcs of the brawler gear and will try three pcs of the Wilderness gear next.</span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Good, we have to much DPS oriented gear as is.  It's about time brawlers got some real defensive gear.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p>I'm sure you can tank your way outa anything, dude... that still doesn't change the fact that most groups are going to choose a plate tank over a Monk.</p><p>I'm glad you like the armor. I, personally, do not. Nothing wrong with differing opinions. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Dogtag]

<p>mixing T2 shard armour with some fabled pieces, jewelery about 50/50 legendary/fabled. Tank-specced, fully mastered etc, both weps around 100 rating. (myth inc, for some reason ppl don't wanna do VS very often, but got that update now, so last update are just days away))</p><p>I don't mind tanking - as long as it's epics. It means I normally have a good setup <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>Just don't ask me to tank instances, those I'd rather go dps.. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> (ya we got [poo-word] dps compared to a scout/caster, I know, but add the avoid, heal, etc etc and we make up for most of it.</p><p>As others I'm leaning toward the SS option and go for some other char for some time, and just dust off the monk for the cases where my monk is actually needed for the raiding..</p>

[Queen Alexandria]

I would much rather DPS than tank, and I agree, saving a group or raid with tsunami, bob and weave, and other abilities does make up for some form of utility. So right now, I am a tank.