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The Guide for Temple Kinghts in Lineage2

Here, we lay out the general conclusions people have made about the different tank classes. This dissertation ignores things that are generally considered ‘common knowledge’, like the fact that elves have certain self bufs that other classes do nothave. We have tried to take a ‘neutral’ stance regarding each class advantages and disadvantages, reiterating the comments and general thoughts of the l2 boards here and elsewhere regarding tanks. Our own experiences are thrown in as well, your mileage may vary.

The Temple Knight is the mose “PVE-iest” of the tank classes. In PVE, he is the best field AoE tank, with 360 degree shield blocking, high block and evade rate due to dex, and high speed to outrun the big nasties. The HP is about in the middle of the SKs and the Human knights. Not bad, but not exactly great. HP weapons are favored here as well, but many choose swords and focus weapons. The healing cubic keeps him going slightly longer and keeps mana down a tiny bit for his party, but is generally considered not really useful most of the time.

The Temple Knight has undead passives that improve his ability to fight/tank undead, which really only help in PvE, unfortunately. For raid bosses, an HP weapon is needed, but the TK can handle it, in general, with gusto. They may not be the first choice, but they’re not a bad second for a raid tank. In small parties, the ability to self-heal very high level bleeds and poisons comes in handy every now and then. Finally, Guard Stance, the mp-abusing toggle that provides tons of Pdef, was often described as the main reason behind being a TK. However, with the gift of this skill to SKs, it is no longer as big of a selling point.