by Bailon » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:27 pm
Hi all,
I am currently using the blade of disruption and Dain's MM shield and am looking for opinions on a non-raid "end game" goal for replacement.
I play with a few close friends only. I play the pally and my brother plays a shaman. We also have a ranger with us most of the time and a monk as well. The last two spots are rarely if ever filled, but they would be with a beastlord and a bard.
I have access to allakhazams website (the paid option) so I can do some looking up myself and have, but I want opinions based on experience from other players.
Should I focus on sword / shield or two hander? Epic 1.5 will probably never happen for our group and we have no intentions of ever going outside of just us. I am obviously the tank and as such I assumed the sword / shield approach to be most beneficial, but I am not so sure after looking at Alla's. We do not rely on my dps obviously, so that is not as important as other factors such as agro / survivability. But on the flip side when handling undead content it is nice to get the big dps hits in.
I saw the Faraday Stormrider's Fiery Avenger which looks like it would be the winner in terms of "getability" by our group (at some point) but it made me think. It has 60 ac on it, which seems to be a lot on a weapon and a two hander to boot so I assume that is a bonus, but does a 2 handers ac work the same way a shields ac works for the raw ac boost? or am I better off still using a sword / shield combo for tanking?
Should I be looking into the TBS weapons instead? The 600 orum ones?
Is there a one groupable weapon that procs a group heal, either HoT or not? Would that be a better choice?
I guess I have too many questions, so let me rephrase.
My goal is to be the best tank I can be for our group, while at the same time providing additional survivability, either in terms of a group proc heal, or additional agro procing, or additional dps etc etc.
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