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Tanks on this game and Holy Trinity.
Hello,
I was wondering if i should buy the founder pack to try this out, but im concerned about the class that i usually play (tanks), I've seen videos before and seen tanks mostly using bows spells and somehow dual daggers, what's with it? so there are no sword and shield classic tanks? Also I've read (back on 2013) that most of the tanks are dual healers so they can cope up for their lack of dps, anyone has some info about the current tank/trinity status?
What about healers? there are no pure healers as well? Any info is appreciated, thanks!
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classic tanks are still in the game and benefit from shield and single handed weapon big time. Since you can make your character into 3 different classes at the same time, there is obviously alot of different methods.
The most classic example of a tank from the trinity system is Protection/ Warfare/ Will
Protection for very tank driven skills. The other 2 for heals, taunts, and special situations.
There is a fairly good link here
http://archeage-impact.de/index.php?site=talentplaner_eng&action=jumpIn
There is huge flexibility in ArcheAge for class builds that many choose what feels best to them.
There are obvious advantages to using some class with longer range for pulls, but it's not always needed depending on your group set up and targets you are fighting.
Thanks!
But this make me wonder where the damage/avoidance tank has some life on the end game, considering that if they allow kite tanking obviously will be preffered due better healing/hps...
Anyone knows about end game already?
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End game tanks are very viable in PvP, watch some KR or RU videos. Very hard to kill with Stuns and such.
You can skill up as many skill lines as you want too, at level 50 on the RU server it costs I think one gold to change a line out.
So you are not tied to one build and do not have to make alts to do the other lines
You are gonna have to try for yourself to see.
I and many of my friends to have such questions, but they are also healers. GW2 and such make the trinity seem unnecessary but their encounters are silly and weak. I hope this isnt the case with archeage; I have been told it isnt.
OPen beta today. So see for yourself, not that it will give you an idea for endgame. BUT I have also heard that endgame is NOT ALL pvp. There are dungeons, there are boss mobs, there is endgame pve.... but because of the nature of open world, it can always turn into a raid that got backdoored by pvp:)
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