I run a 6 box war, cle, druid, chanter, mag wiz. I also run a melee but I enjoy my caster team. I beat tbl and all challenger. I swap the Cle out for a mag or shaman depending on what I am doing. My buddy just started playing an sk and the amount of casting he does benefits from my teams ADPS so much I wanna swap my warrior. This is what I am talking about. [55933] Frostreave Aura Effect II Target: Single Range: 300' Resist: Beneficial, Blockable: Yes Focusable: Yes Casting: 0s Duration: 18s+ (3 ticks) Song, Dispelable: Yes Max Hits: 6 Matching Spells 1: Cast: Frostreave Strike II on Spell Use (100% Chance) 2: Limit Type: Detrimental 3: Limit Effect: Current HP 5: Limit Spell: Exclude Frostreave Strike II 6: Limit Type: Exclude Combat Skills 7: Limit Max Level: 115 (lose 100% per level) 8: Limit Min Mana Cost: 10 [57278/6734] Mana Repetition II Target: Single Range: 200' Resist: Beneficial, Blockable: Yes Focusable: Yes Casting: 0s Duration: 18s+ (3 ticks) Song, Dispelable: Yes Max Hits: 6 Matching Spells 1: Cast: Mana Repetition Strike II on Spell Use (100% Chance) 2: Limit Type: Detrimental 3: Limit Effect: Current HP 5: Limit Spell: Exclude Mana Repetition Strike II 6: Limit Type: Exclude Combat Skills 7: Limit Max Level: 110 (lose 100% per level) 8: Limit Min Mana Cost: 10 [58212/6772] Dissident Reinforcement 3 Classes: ENC/250 Skill: Abjuration Target: Single Range: 300' Resist: Beneficial, Blockable: Yes Focusable: Yes Casting: 0s, Recast: 6s Duration: 12s+ (2 ticks) Song, Dispelable: Yes Max Hits: 16 Matching Spells 1: Cast: Dissident Reinforced Strike 3 on Spell Use (Base1=16) e.g. Cast Time 2s=4% 3s=5.3% 4s=8.0% 5s=10.7% 2: Limit Max Level: 115 (lose 100% per level) 3: Limit Effect: Current HP 4: Limit Type: Detrimental 5: Limit Spells: Exclude Dissident Reinforced Strike 6: Limit Min Mana Cost: 100 7: Increase Current Mana by 2742 8: Increase Spell Damage by 3770 (Before Crit) 9: Limit Max Level: 115 (lose 100% per level) 10: Limit Effect: Current HP 11: Limit Type: Detrimental 12: Limit Min Mana Cost: 100 They all stack, and the SK can has a chance to proc each on of those on each spell he casts. I am not whining I was just curios if any one else swapped out tanks and noticed a big difference. On the other end just to play both sides. I enjoy the RP of a warrior over a SK. MY sk will probably have to stay in shield stance since I am boxing, whereas my warrior is only in DW unless SHTF. Also Ive played my warrior for so long I do not want to give him up, and the thought of grinding to 110 plus augs, gear, for a tank..... Any one make the switch or attempt it? Hows the change? Also I do have a melle group where my warrior is the star. war, sham,bard,rog,bersker, mag. i just like the caster team better.
I'm currently running war/pal/rog/zerk/brd/shm. Used to box sk/enc/wiz/wiz a couple years ago. I haven't done exactly what you're asking about, but I have some thoughts you might find useful: Caster-oriented aDPS is probably not a good enough reason to switch tanks. If you're in shield stance anyway, the SK isn't going to do great DPS. Not sure how it'd compare to a warrior in DW with that group. For reference I was around 50k with my SK with shield, and my warrior sustains around 200-220k with brd+shm aDPS. Fresh tank - if you have a 7th account, it'd make things much easier to bring up a second tank with your main tank still functional. I got my pally up as a 2nd tank/healer and threw on a suit of TBL T2 + GMM and was able to tank adequately as a fresh 110. If not on FV, you could drag the SK around and collect gear until ready to make the swap. Otherwise, if you're just swapping out the warrior, I figure you'll need to rely on pet tanking for quite some time. I don't think augs are a big deal.
I don't have a good idea about how big of a difference it'd make but if i could change a char's class I'd totally switch my war to an sk for an expansion to try it out, even if my war only gear didnt carry over in any way.
Make a new FTP account with the SK, grind it up with your warrior as the tank easily. 5+ months til new expansion. Plenty of time to experiment
