Vanguard: Saga of Heroes

I am a new player coming on tonight and was wondering:

What would be the best tanking class and race, I am sure there are probably a couple so I guess the pros and cons for each class and race would help.

No best option there. Go and play whatever you like among the three tanking classes (paladin, DK, Warrior). People will try to tell you, warrior/DK/Pally is the best!, but keep in my mind that even if there were a minor differences, the skill of the player is much more important than any "imbalances".

Nevertheless, warriors were suited for best agro hold, Deathknights for best soloing option with a bit higher DPS and paladins for best mitigation.

Originally posted by Thillian

No best option there. Go and play whatever you like among the three tanking classes (paladin, DK, Warrior). People will try to tell you, warrior/DK/Pally is the best!, but keep in my mind that even if there were a minor differences, the skill of the player is much more important than any "imbalances".

Nevertheless, warriors were suited for best agro hold, Deathknights for best soloing option with a bit higher DPS and paladins for best mitigation.

I totally agree with Thillian play anything that takes your fancy at the end of the day you will have the most fun.

Going by your name here "Dreadblade" I'll suggest the DK, which is a lot of fun to play. As far as race, that's up to your taste, it might help if you pick a race on Qali or Threstra, they will have more players on that continent than Kojan. But Kojan is still my fav lil island nation. My main is a wood elf of course.

Thanks all for the replys, maybe a deathknight but a warrior sounds good as well.

Warrior sucks right now, because they have bad aggro control, because they only get 20% bonus in defensive.

I personally would recommend on choosing a Dread Knight, because thats the one tank class that was with the least problems from the very start on, and they get the really nice features, such as invisibility, mezz, shadowstep etc. They dont do as much dps as a Warrior, but after GU6 they will do more dps than Paladin (right now Paladin benefits from the dps bug which makes it a top dps class).

Good races for DK are Orc, Lesser Giant, and Qalian Human. The Qalian Human gets a really strong racial that keeps being useful even in raids, and is also especially useful if you want to PvP.