But can a berserker and guardian AoE? I only played a berserker up to lvl35, but that was a long time ago, however, I remeber doing AoE damage and probably agro. How effective compared to a pally or SK, I cannot say. I am not too much worried about how much DPS a tank can do, I just want a tank that can take damage and grab agro fast on all mobs and maybe even one that can pull hard targets....although I am not sure that really matters in EQ2 since mobs are mostly tethered?.

I know on EQ1, a pally or an SK fighting named mobs that hit extremely hard pale in comparison to a warrior (the real tank class) since they just don't have the mitigation or ability to put on as much hitpoints. But although an SK doesn't have the hitpoints of a warrior, they can selfbuff themselves with buffs that will proc weapons so that everytime they hit a mob, they heal themselves...so although this won't matter much when a mob hits for 10k to 20k, it does in group play where mobs don't hit nearly as hard and in some cases, the SK won't need much healing, but a warrior will (since warrior just have flat out higher hitpoints...they don't recoup it durring fights without someone healing em). I never played a pally at all......I was just never the boyscout type lol....but pallies have heals and probably weapons procs that heals, so again although they don't have the hitpoints of a warrior, they are given another form to match up. And both SK's and pallies get tons of different weapons that proc runes (a buff that takes X amount of damage and disappears runes also create AoE agro without you having to do anything extra).

Just activated my old EQ2 account and used it to send RAF's to myself 5 times and then created 5 accounts using those invites (don't create accounts and then try to do RAF, I have now made 10 EQ2 accounts lol...only 5 will do RAF though). Still got probably 10 hours of downloading to do on two comps (hopefully I can just copy and paste myEQ2 folders to my other comps and run the patcer). I'd like a tank class that was actually made to tank boss mobs if possible, but just about as important is the tanks ability to agro everything around it. Do you guys know if a berserker or a guardian can do this? I read the tank guide, but it doesn't really say about AoE agro and also, I don't understand how a pally is more survivable then a berserker if a berserker is suppose to be a MT and the pally an offtank? No doubt a pally can heal itself and that will help, but in the long run, it's better to have a tank with higher mitigation and ease of increasing hitpoints.