DarkSaberMaster Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 How viable is it? Bout to grind out my tank gear in PvP, but want to know if I should stay AP while I do it. Or is it viable to stay in my Combat Tech gear as a ST? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom_VI Posted April 6, 2015 Share Posted April 6, 2015 like crazy OP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FerkWork Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 Is that like Skank tanking but in reverse wut.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themachinemann Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 It is viable in unranked and ranked, but as always depends on the skill of the user. The theory is that the DPS gear will give you 30-40% DPS increase while damage reduction and health will be reduced by 10-20%. You need to weigh up if your tanking skill is good enough to be a viable tank and make that extra damage worth it (otherwise you might as well be dps). Keep in mind that your opponents might know you have DPS gear and decide to tunnel you. Shield tech has less DCD's than say Immortal but puts out more damage. In one match I played the tank on my team was a shield tech PT in DPS gear and he ran in head first and got globalled (a last second kolto was useless). I lol'd, then was sad at my ratings loss. If I were you I'd use some 162 dps and tank gear to get a feel for the survivability and damage of each and go from there. If you want to tank ranked I'd recommend just buying the shield tech set Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aetideus Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 (edited) It is viable in unranked and ranked, but as always depends on the skill of the user. The theory is that the DPS gear will give you 30-40% DPS increase while damage reduction and health will be reduced by 10-20%. You need to weigh up if your tanking skill is good enough to be a viable tank and make that extra damage worth it (otherwise you might as well be dps). Keep in mind that your opponents might know you have DPS gear and decide to tunnel you. Shield tech has less DCD's than say Immortal but puts out more damage. In one match I played the tank on my team was a shield tech PT in DPS gear and he ran in head first and got globalled (a last second kolto was useless). I lol'd, then was sad at my ratings loss. If I were you I'd use some 162 dps and tank gear to get a feel for the survivability and damage of each and go from there. If you want to tank ranked I'd recommend just buying the shield tech set 3 scenarios: - ST with full dps gear, C Tech set bonus, generator/ shield. Viable in regs. - ST with S set bonus, dps mods, generator. Highly recommended for regs. - ST with S set bonus, dps mods, shield, end augs. Higly recommended for regs and yolo. Edited April 7, 2015 by Aetideus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maraxuss Posted April 10, 2015 Share Posted April 10, 2015 Be a shield tech in Tank gear, be what you were made for, your healer will love you, and the other team will hate you. You will be hard to put down unless multiple people spend their time attacking you, with a good healer you may well tie up 75% of the other team and you or the healer never die. Decide what you want to be: Shield tech in tank gear = meat bag soak the dmg for the team, annoyance, thorn in side all match long, major support role...not a lot of damage. Shield tech in Dmg Gear = Way less survivability...Way more Damage. than shield tech in tank gear, but that leaves the question of why not just play a DPS spec to begin with. As well a shield tech in dps gear might even be hurting the team by placing the guard on the healer instead of the full blown tank doing it., and you run into a REAL problem of at 60 you will be playing with and against the same people match after match ranked and unranked, when they figure out you are a paper tank in dps gear, they will just tunnel you down and that will be that, your dead and your healers screwed joining you at the respawn shortly afterward. So basically you need to decide if you want to give the damage or take it, but if you pick tank spec...please wear tank gear, not dps gear, you might not be padding the damage numbers/medals, but your team will love you for it, and you will have the satisfaction of knowing that by keeping your healer alive, and him being able to heal the dps, it was you and he that probably very well won the game for everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marchesq Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Im a shield tech in combat tech gear. Not a game changer, but definitely contribute to my team. I like the durability. If pyro or tactics had a leap, I would probably switch to dps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lanzend Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Type- Warzone Toon - Danbert Class - Vanguard Category: DPS Record - 2103.27 Rank - 4 Link - http://i.imgur.com/2t2KB0W.jpg #tankspecftw Tank in dps gear too stronk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VixenRawR Posted April 18, 2015 Share Posted April 18, 2015 Tank in dps gear too stronk Look at their team just filled with FoTM and they lost. So sad they can't play easy mode classes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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