Any Blackguard info out there?

ltank

I've personally never played one very high. I do know there was a guy named Axewulf (Axewuf) who built his toon through gear and spec to be a complete survivalist and as such was hard as hell to kill.

meleemadness

Was he harder than any of the other tanks who spec into survivability/tanking?

kaiser3282

Well the different types of tank each have their own unique abilities that make them good at some things and worse at others depending on specs. For example, the Auras on the Chosen clas smake them an extremely valuable part of any group, especially melee assist trains.

As far as BGs, they have a few nice tools that make them pretty badass:

1) Detaunt ignore - IIRC they are the only class that has this. Detaunts cause you to do much less damage to your target, but the BG is able to ignore any detaunts thrown at it so it can keep hitting for maximum damage.

2) Hatred system & AP - BG is pretty good for AP management for 2 reasons. Many of your more useful skills require hatred instead of AP, so even if youre running low on AP in a long fight, or get hit with an AP drain skill, you can still get your hatred based attacks. Most other classes (besides dok/wp) rely purely on AP to keep attacking. Also the BG has a nice AP regen skill which uses a bit of your hatred to refill i think it is 3/4 (150 points) of your AP bar, and it only takes like 2 attacks to regain the Hatred you used to regain your AP.

3) Heal debuffs - always a + to have

4) Self heals & nice buffs - BG have at least 1, i think it might be 2, self heals they can use to keep their own HP up a bit even without a healer, and can also heal their Dark Protected target at the same time. They also have some very nice buffs which when triggered effect the BG + their Dark Protected target. Things like Toughness buff, Willpower buff, etc. IIRC a couple pretty decent group buffs too. BG with these heals & buffs, combined with a good DoK fighting alongside them = pure win thanks to their combined heals & buffs to eachother. A BG is already a real bitch to take down, a BG with a DoK assisting them becomes like 5x more trouble.

5) Group disruption - one of the things a BG is best at compared to other tanks is disrupting enemy groups, especially their backline ranged DPS & Healers. Casters & healers have a tough time doing damage to a BG due to its ability to get high Willpower & disrupt through buffs & tactics. They can also as i mentione dabove, throw out some heal debuffs, and have some other nice CC tools like knockdowns. Basically if a good BG rushe sinto your back line of RDPS and healers, you better either hope someone heals the shit out of you, run for your life, or hope several melee DPS jump on that BG very fast before he takes out all of the back line support.

meleemadness

Nice!  But I am thinking he is not the master of survival and raping the back line of casters/healers in the same spec, right?

Amana

Please don't necro old threads.