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Race/Armor/Profession(s) etc... What do you think?

Brawlers are not now nor will they ever be able to tank.

Time to get on the short bus junior.

I think the ultimate tank would be someone who has mastered brawler, mastered one of the elite brawling professions, and has the def lines from all the other elite brawling professions (including meditate from TKA if TKA was not mastered).

At this point right now I think Hvy Swordsmen and Fencers are probaly the best "tanks" for melee.

they fixed the TKM stuff so i would go for tkm

Am a MAster Brawler, Master Heavy Sword, 4440 Fencer, 0204 TKA and 0040 Pikeman ( along with novice med) I tank just fine - better still now that they've added COB. No pets, no armour, no buffs.

Hmm I don't tank very well without my armor when I'm in a group. Armor makes a huge difference in damage. Well for a teras kasi starting from the bottom anyway. I would say for sheer fun factor, Teras Kasi is the best you can get right now.

As a Teras Kasi with a few boxes, almost master medic, almost master brawler and 67 percent ubese, I tank very well. I've been in many fights where me and the teras kasi master in our guild were the last two standing.

According to Thunderheart we are tanks.....and our job as a tank is to die. He really said that..I think it was in here some where I see if I can dig it up.

Ok I founf it but let me clarify...it was in the Pikeman fourm which I am. He asked us what we thought our role was in the game, or in a group in game, some one responded "our role is to die". He replied back with thisThunderheat thinks taks are suppose to die Basically he agreed and belives it as well....kudos TH ...

IMO, brawlers can be very effective tanks.

The key is to use your abilities well. Landing intimidate and stun (for those who have it) can drastically cut your damage. Another way to go is to land warcry and knockdown. This will increase your damage AND prevent your target from doing damage. Master brawler actually gives some of the best crowd control in the game.

If I land stun/intimidate and use warcry, with a doc at my back I'm able to do a somewhat decent job of tanking even krayts (well the ancients are a bit tough no matter how you do it).

My suggestions for "ultimate" tanking:

• Master brawler is an absolute must for intimidate2, warcry2, and also for that last bit of extra melee toughness.
  
• TKA and Fencer both offer some very nice defensive modifiers.
  
• Evidence suggests that a lot of the defensive modifiers stack across professions, so the "ultimate" tank would probably take the defensive lines from several melee professions at once.
  
• Set your stats around good armor. Use chef food to offset the encumbrance difficulties.
  

StGabe.

I had "The Ultimate Tank" in mind when I made my shadowfire char, my goal is Master Brawler, Master TKA, Master Fencer, Defense in 2h and Pike. I still have a ways to go though, I have Master Brawler and 1 0 4 2 in TKA right now heh.

TKMs can make effective tanks. With their unarmed toughness and additional debuff attacks from the unarmed brawler line (blind and stun) they can both take a lot of damage and prevent the opponent from doing much damage.

Other melee classes can make good tanks as well, but the key to tanking is being able to absorb damage, not necessarily dish it out.

For tanking, I would choose a race that allows you to wear a complete set of armor. This rules out wookies, trandoshans, etc. You can get (sliced) armor with 90% kinetic resistances on some servers. This will reduce damage taken by 95% total (plus you get the unarmed toughness reduction o top of that). But if the mob gets a hit on a spot wear you are vulnerable (feet on a Trandoshan, for example), you're ability to tank is significantly reduced.