Good tanks to level with??

[Razmirth]

So I love playing tank classes, but trying to level them is so painful. It's not that it takes so much longer than a melee DPS, but combat is drawn out and boring at times.

Any tank classes which are better to level with? As in I don't need to use my entire action bar with 1 attack spammed over and over (black orc for example). Even spammed attacks is ok with me as long as it does decent damage.

[Aurandilaz]

SM and Blorc have really good damage output, same goes for fully loldps BG and IB. Heck, even Chosen and Kotb seem to deal decent amounts of damage.

If you want to have few hotbars filled with different abilities and a dozen different debuffs, consider a BG.

[tazdingo]

chosen is best for AFKing stuff to death

[spikespiegel84]

Among all the tanks I played, the best experience/utility/fun is Swordmaster and Black Ork.

[Martok]

chosen is best for AFKing stuff to death

Brilliant. Cutting humor at its finest.

[th3gatekeeper]

Chosen/Knight - both extremely boring. Can't stress how boring.

B.O. and SM are arguably the most "active" to level with highest damage output. I had a blast leveling SM but due to my NA 150+ ping, PvP with these classes was unplayable due to stance swapping(which is what made it very fun to level due to each situation requiring a different choice of ability at each stance).

BG and IB - a fair mix between the two. More active than chosen/kobs but still feel boring stretches where rather than spamming 1 attack you'll have a "rotation" you'll spam.

[Daknallbomb]

I leveld a bo its rly funny to play a snb hybrid there. Leveling was easy.

[Darosh]

KotBS and Chosen are your best bet, they are indeed snoozefests however... but you spare yourself the occasional legging it back.
SM a has a good spammable AoE (enchanced by its spritdebuffs and off CD) early on, aswell as sustain via avoidance stack (EF+rr parry) and bubbles.
BG too has a good stock AoE, but iirc he gets the cleave relatively late on - late t2/t3ish.
IB and BO I wouldn't consider suited for your endeavors, all things considered.

So, long story short: SM > [BG =] KotBS = Chosen [> BG] > BO = IB as far as I and AoE (with your preference of non-snoozefest) for farming/leveling is considered.

With BG potentially outperforming most classes by virtue of bruteforce AoE capabilities depending on toolkit accesibility in early tiers.

You can check toolkits (and level accessibility) yourself with the career builder on the head-end of this website, I am too lazy myself to check BG - my apologies.

E: Words.

[Razmirth]

Thanks for all the responses everyone. I mainly
Play destruction so I'll look into black guard. I remember back in live I had a level 20 BG and he could AOE 5-6 mobs at a time. All comments brought that back to memory! Thanks!

[dantesinfernalhell]

chosen is best for AFKing stuff to death

don't hate us chosen just because stuff dies for looking at us!

its really funny once you hit 11 and have permanent warped flesh absorbing loldmg