Order tanks, pros/cons and discussion

[BrokenIronSights]

Hey folks, wanting to start an order tank, as you can probably tell, but I'm wondering what race. Besides "[race] is awesome!" what do you thing of the three tanks? I'm looking for more of a damage focus, maybe group buffs, and generally fun. I started a Blazing Sun chap, but the server went down, so didn't get to play him. I figured I'd chalk up some discussion here before going through with the leveling process.

[Telen]

Ironbreaker Dps and single target buffs great in a duo
KotBS Amazing group support best defensive tank
Swordmaster looks cool might aswell play a proper mdps though

[tazdingo]

knight - king turtle of turtle island, great group support
ib - solid offtank with good dots, very fun in t1 due to kd
sm - does absolutely nothing and dies

[Kaitanaroyr]

hope y'all are talking about pre t4 sms lol
(Kotbs is yr best bet easiest to gear and doesn't die fast while dealing decent dmg in t1)

[Mez]

KOTBS/CHOSEN offers buff and debuff affects x3 with aura twisting. That is essentially 6 spells, and it's pbaoe so affecting large quantities of players and no penalty of global cooldown.

For that alone there is no other choice if you want to be serious about it.

The kotbs On Your Guard can do 15-20k damage in a scenario by itself.

Any tank in RoR is helpful though because the ability to snare squishies essentially puts ranged or healers on the move, and the ability to cast taunt to disrupt a rez or big heal can turn a fight. KOTBS has actually has another disrupt, they can be nasty.

[Razid1987]

The kotbs On Your Guard can do 15-20k damage in a scenario by itself.

http://i.imgur.com/XklMBJ9.jpg

Tis true

[BrokenIronSights]

Group buffs, decent damage, takes hits like a pro, is a human, Knight of the Blazing Sun it is! Let's keep the discussion going, eh?

[Fandoin]

lol razid how many DMG did u did with ure aura?

[Razid1987]

lol razid how many DMG did u did with ure aura?

In that SC? I would guess about 18-20k

[TenTonHammer]

I want to point out to everyone in this thread first and formost that razid is doing so much damage because she is using the on your gaurd aura kotbs have more felibilty than chosens on what auras they can run because if your have played on either side you will notice that its VERY common for ordo to have atleast 4 bw's in every sc this makes it almost mandatory that chosens have to run the resist aura where as destro is more of a fan of the melee train and sorcs are not as frequent in sc's

having said that i want to tell you that accoring to luth in the sticky class status thread On your guard is bugged atm to the extent that its kinda op it does retrun damge on every enemy instead of the staggered interval further more since everyone is considred in your grp in scs atm the aura works on everyone on your team whom takes a hit....I.E what im tring to say is that dont go buy razids dmg in scs

BUTTTTTTTT KoTBS was the best dam tank in the game in live that it out shied EVERY OTHER DAM TANK in the game with great cc and giving everyone 20% base crit its rather appaling that the class was that good, i hope that either all other tanks are buffed up or KOTBS is nerfed

anyway best tanks are hands down KOTBS>IB>SM

if you want to play sm i strongly suggest you go offclas with 2h cause its a rather underweling snb tank compared to the former 2