DEF Mod'sFollow

Guardian, Defender, and Deathknight are the MT MCs of the 3 tanks classes. That being said, there is no reason you couldn't make an MT ouf of a Crusader, or even a Soldier. DEF mods, as I've heard, make like you were one level higher.

No one knows for sure the MODs, however, inflicting damage 1 level above your current is a provable falsehood!

The MOD is just a fudge-factoring number in a equation. WHatever is it does, its effect is a small one, not a large as the purported statement above.

It IS as simple as that!

Ok, so as far as anyone knows....which is better 2 def mods 100 ac and some hp max or 500ac and 500 hp max? Those are the biggest parts of the MC Guardian and crusader. If i go Guardian, I've got the reqs, and will just add agi. But if I go crusader i've got do get about 60 more str and 50 more dex. Don't really want to raise dex, when i could be raising something that would help me take more hits, but if MC really helps take more then it would be worth it.

Also, does anyone know what the MCA for Guardian does? Guardians Aid, hodstock has it listed under the MC, but doesn't say what exactly it does.
And if I'm not mistaken the Crusader MCA is the thing where when you take hits your group gets healed.

well look at guardians other MCa.

Divinity- hp max +250, fr +20, cr +20, pr +20, dr +20, lr +20, ar +20. Buff that increases Defensive stats.


for MTing Resists are key. Id go Guardian for MTing but Crusader if you want to be offensive and solo.

Nash,

I never said it had no effect... it does, but it does NOT have the effect of bumping you up 1 level per MOD.

And I do have several tanks, all are pretty much equal, some with and without MODs, one without does just as well as the one with!

It simply is not a make or break factor in being a good tank, ither for raids or otherwise!

But that is all besides the POINT here, I said this, to his satement that a mod raise you damage by one entire level, no it does not! I said it fators in the equation.

Now, where am I wrong in my staement, and where did I say I would not use mods in my tanks?

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I agree, but what I am saying is this, the MOD is just a factor in an equation, it does not raise your def or off by an entire level!
Example making a 20 tank hit like a 21, 22, 23, 24 tank... it just isn't so.

Tis an ole argument... unles a DEV posts some real hardcore programming lines to prove one way or another, it will always be debated back n forth.

I did that once and it still didnt make much of a diffrence. But then again I was still doing minons. So it acctually just might increase your defence by a lvl.

I recall one of the developers stating at one point in time that off / def mods do not infact make you take and give out hits as if you were one level higher, as sing said, it is just a little number in a long formula for calculating how much damage you take on quads / hits.

It does make a difference, and takes quite a few off / def mods to make a very noticeable one.


Now, on topic, def mods are important, if given the choice tobuy them or not, ofcourse buy them, a main tank usually wants all the defense they can possibly get.

A guardian is definitly easier to build a MT with, I suggest you go with that.

I have seen a Crusader Mt, though I believe it takes a bit more knowledge and experience to make a new one, where as Guardian is setting you up for Mt witht he requirements and a bit of a boost with the resists on the MCAs.

Yeah you can still group with Guardian. It'll be safer but with slower kills.