Quote Originally Posted by Ughmahedhurtz View Post
Under level 30, that's incorrect. Once you get Precept of Refuge and the mana regen talent that goes with it (which requires 30 points in Justicar at minimum), your mana regen comment becomes true. I tried weaving purpose into my tank rotation when my noobs were leveling and I found making a macro with

cast purpose
cast strike of judgment

and spamming that for the 10 seconds it was up did much, much better. Like, 20% regen versus 80% regen. You don't need it for trash for teh most part -- you need it for long-ass boss fights, and that's where weaving it into the macro sucks balls.
I didn't find that to be the case for my cleric team through IT and Deepstrike Mines. My tank never ran out of mana (unless for some reason I was spamming Even Justice which dropped my mana precipitously).

As far as 1h+shield versus 2h tanking, it seemed to me that I took less burst damage using 1h and shield than using a 2h weapon (up to about level 28 on my current team). I didn't run an analysis of this but it just seemed that way to me. I know that people have tried to number crunch the issue and say that at lower levels 2-handed tanking is equal to or better than 1h+shield tanking. Once you get the shield skills I think that the numbers favor 1h+shield.