Return of Reckoning

Hey so I just downloaded the game from playing such a long time ago! I was wondering what tanks do differently from DPS in pvp? I see a lot more tanks than melee DPS. I am deciding between Marauder and Chosen, what are the main differences between the two?

They are the same.

Tanks guard other people, if in 30ft range, damage recieved by the guarded player is split evenly between the two. The damage the tank receives from guard can be blocked or parried, but cannot be mitigated by anything else.

Chosen is a tank. Marauder is a melee dps.

footpatrol2 wrote:They are the same.

oops I meant chosen and marauder! sorry about that.

Gachimuchi wrote:Tanks guard other people, if in 30ft range, damage recieved by the guarded player is split evenly between the two. The damage the tank receives from guard can be blocked or parried, but cannot be mitigated by anything else.

Can tanks still 1v1 DPS and do well in pvp if playing solo-like?

ace5149 wrote:

Gachimuchi wrote:Tanks guard other people, if in 30ft range, damage recieved by the guarded player is split evenly between the two. The damage the tank receives from guard can be blocked or parried, but cannot be mitigated by anything else.

Can tanks still 1v1 DPS and do well in pvp if playing solo-like?

Depends on how you are speced and what dps you are facing.

Please play a Mara. They are more OP than Chosen, and we have a TON of Chosen already (me being one). Kinda wish I had rolled a mara now since I often see more tanks than MDPS and often I get stuck guarding a caster or healer cause I dont have anything MDPS to guard.

Tanks will ALWAYS do less DPS than MDPS by a long shot - even full focused offense (tactic) tanks..

Play a Mara, youll thank yourself especially when you get in a game like I did this morning where we had 6 Chosen in Praag.... Would have KILLED to swap 1-2 of those with Maras

th3gatekeeper wrote:Please play a Mara. They are more OP than Chosen, and we have a TON of Chosen already (me being one). Kinda wish I had rolled a mara now since I often see more tanks than MDPS and often I get stuck guarding a caster or healer cause I dont have anything MDPS to guard.

Tanks will ALWAYS do less DPS than MDPS by a long shot - even full focused offense (tactic) tanks..

Play a Mara, youll thank yourself especially when you get in a game like I did this morning where we had 6 Chosen in Praag.... Would have KILLED to swap 1-2 of those with Maras

I actually chose to go DoK and go DPS with it

The tanks role in this game is to mitigate damage from others via tank only mechanics like guard and challenge, as well having certain CC aspects that tanks specialize in being things like punts and champions challenge etc... and usually bring some kind of group wide or strong single target utility buffs/debuffs. Chosen does all of these things very well, while classes like BO might be on the same level if not for their awful punt in comparison to chosens.

DPS role is to bring pressure by being able to do... lots of damage obviously. But also because of how this game plays out in 6v6/12v12 in scenarios being able to do lots of damage in a short period of time (burst) is generally much better than being able to do lots of sustained or AoE damage. Which is why you will hear classes like engineer/magus are bad outside of fighting at keeps. Again mara is a very good choice for this, having the strongest and most reliable armor debuff and a wealth of crit multiplier and chance on top of tons of fun toys unique to the class or at least unique on destro side (pull).

Play whatever role you feel like you would have more fun with, or find a guild 1st then find out which role they feel would be more valuable to them.

ace5149 wrote: I actually chose to go DoK and go DPS with it

Unless you are already in a guild and they are willing to play around you that is probably not a wise decision :^) No matter what people say DPS DoK is not "DPS" it is a hybrid, and in order to function at it's best, and in order for your group to take advantage of what you can do, you need purpose built 6 mans. You will just get yelled at in PUG scenarios, and feel generally useless in ORvR if you are playing that solo.

guys were missing a key point here

ace5149 wrote: playing solo-like?

Mara is one of the best solo classes in this game, if you want to solo play mara


also a tank trying to dps with a 2h will never put out the same damage as a true mdps