Hello all!
Huge Star Wars fan here, finally quit that "other MMO" and I am loving STWOR after a few days.
Want to get into tanking in this game, primarly was melee dps in WoW. I love the look and style of Sith Assassin Tank, but I see lots of stuff in the forums about them not being very viable endgame?
So I'm thinking of rolling a Juggernaut instead. Just was wondering if anyone can provide a breakdown of the two classes, as well as the most effective crew skills for each.
Saw this on the tanking forum, and was curious about you're input:
The most defensive cooldowns of any tank class
Has leap to enemy and ally
Has a shorter cd on interupt
Wears heavy armor
Provides raid wide barrier when aoe taunts
Assassin in a Nutshell
Has the most upkeep of any class in the game. You need to be maintaining stacks of Kinetic Ward / Sith version or you will just die - this is in addition to maintaining threat and any other mechanics of the boss fight (this single thing is something other tanks just "have" by having heavy armor)
Has to force speed to location at a slower cooldown than leap and isn't a teleport
Has a longer cd on interupt
You have 2 defensive cooldowns - and in NiM content your main one doesn't work... wah wah
You can stealth rez... if you're not tanking something... which is almost never
A lot of your "survivability" comes from self healing from your various abilities, however if you're already dead because the damage wasn't mitigated you can't exactly heal
This hopefully will change in the comming months but who knows!
Thank you and I look forward to seeing you all roaming the galaxy!
