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SageGaspar · 03-23-2006, 08:24 PM

Licit wrote:
I was in a group the other day, down the bottom level of Sanctum of Scaleborn, something happened and the tank threw a hissy fit and gated out, followed closely by another member of the group. We sat there thinking, well, what do we do now, so I checked track, couple of named up, and suggested we go for them, took out 5 named in an hour with 4 people, a temple healing, a brigand DPSing, an illusionist DPSing (not mezzing) and me tanking. Had an absolute ball, got a couple of big quest updated, did the ring event and got a couple of legendary drops. Was great fun, and hillarious to hear the other talk in amazement about how Swashies CAN tank

Yeah, I really need to start carrying a decent shield around with me for special occasions, hehe. I'd love to grab the STA line too, but I'm not willing to sacrifice WIS.Bottom line, which I said with my Bruiser and I'll say again now, 90% of group tanking in EQ2 is just having someone who is a competent puller and capable of holding aggro. This is less true in high level instances like HoF which are murder, but something like Sanctum, you're not going to have an issue.

03-23-2006, 08:24 PM	#10
SageGaspar Loremaster Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 964	Licit wrote: I was in a group the other day, down the bottom level of Sanctum of Scaleborn, something happened and the tank threw a hissy fit and gated out, followed closely by another member of the group. We sat there thinking, well, what do we do now, so I checked track, couple of named up, and suggested we go for them, took out 5 named in an hour with 4 people, a temple healing, a brigand DPSing, an illusionist DPSing (not mezzing) and me tanking. Had an absolute ball, got a couple of big quest updated, did the ring event and got a couple of legendary drops. Was great fun, and hillarious to hear the other talk in amazement about how Swashies CAN tank Yeah, I really need to start carrying a decent shield around with me for special occasions, hehe. I'd love to grab the STA line too, but I'm not willing to sacrifice WIS.Bottom line, which I said with my Bruiser and I'll say again now, 90% of group tanking in EQ2 is just having someone who is a competent puller and capable of holding aggro. This is less true in high level instances like HoF which are murder, but something like Sanctum, you're not going to have an issue.