Ninepaces wrote: -with the str pot, tough buff applied any time, and hateful strike tactic applied at 90 hate stats are 820 strength, 930 toughness, 55% parry. Maybe I can get 875 str with max gear. That's without RD and with 20 renown points into strength. Impressive on paper (I recall a BO that does more damage than me telling me he was 600 strength/600 tough) but sadly this is not enough to compete with BO for an offense tank slot. Its become apparent to me tank support damage doesnt come from traditional strength buffed abilities but from additional stuff like loudmouth or abilities that proc other things like covenants multiple times. Think swordmaster dot procs for example. BG doesnt really have the tools to multi proc except for maybe enraged beating, and to take that and the mandatory AOE snare and the other stuff I lose heal debuff/ap drain and still need 40/50 or 40/60. But I'm still looking at alternative builds for 40/50.
This is sadly true, i always prefered 2hand weapon tanks, on my kotbs and my chosen (kotbs was quite better in 2h, mainly because it was launched pretty overpowered, and chosen already was nerfed at kotbs launch time)
But on blackguard, i found myself not reaching any decently point of damage dealing, and forced myself to try shield and sword and go tank way, but lacking any CC (need block for knowdown forcing yourself to go sword and shield and needing many hate for long duration or otherwise is just a normal one, needing hate for make Knowback shine because a granny can punt you harder than a blackguard with 15 hate, and needing 14 points for buy a 10 sec snare with 20 sec cooldown,etc)
As damage dealer way, the damage is not great, and as tank, you lack the tools, or those tools need block and beign 100 hate for beign minimaly competitive...that ends producing a high desire of erase the character.
