I play unranked and ranked a lot. I have had guildies tell me about using dps gear (keeping shield generator) instead of my full tank gear. What are your thoughts? Feel free to break it up into unranked and ranked, knowing that both are vastly different.

My current stats with tank gear are (Without Stim):

Defense: 2816 (38% Damage Reduction / 36% Defense Chance)

Shield: 1432 (40% Chance without Dark Ward / 58% with)

Absorption: 1600 (49%)

I play unranked and ranked a lot. I have had guildies tell me about using dps gear (keeping shield generator) instead of my full tank gear. What are your thoughts? Feel free to break it up into unranked and ranked, knowing that both are vastly different.

 

My current stats with tank gear are (Without Stim):

Defense: 2816 (38% Damage Reduction / 36% Defense Chance)

Shield: 1432 (40% Chance without Dark Ward / 58% with)

Absorption: 1600 (49%)

This was true last year, using power, and stacking health with about 30% Shield and absorb with about 70% crit, it put shadow tanks into "i got to stop him from killing me category from the just ignore him" But with the changes with 5.0 we are still waiting for testing to finish to my understanding