Originally Posted by Sayshina

Stances are godly. Read up on the descriptions of some of your stances.

A lot of kiddies ignore stances because they usualy don't do damage, and a damage geek has no patience for understanding skill interactions. He can only do simple math, so he can't get past the "this skill does xx dmg and that skill doesn't".

If you're a knockdown War going up against another knockdown war, balanced stance could make all the difference.

Glad defense DOES do damage, guaranteed at that.

Defensive stance, Berserker stance, Bonetti's, the list goes on. They are all instant cast, uninteruptable skills that do something good. Most of them have reasonable cooldowns as well.

When my War is needed to tank, I take not a single attack skill, with the possible exception of Glad. I spec nothing or very little into a weapon tree, and I bring a shield and high tactics. I also leave the superior and major runes at home. I take at lease 4 stances, and I worry about doing my job. TANKING does not mean killing. It means holding the line so the CASTERS can do the killing.

I would say that tactics are the single best skill tree a War has. The fact that they are so often ignored is more a statement of the maturity of the player community than a statement about their worth.