It feels to me many believe a tank is just there to just hold aggro. You can do alot of dmg using a 2H sword or axe and bleed without using to many credited hps to make you to easy to knock over. Using 2H sword or axe with bleed you often see 500+ hps per tick on bigger bosses plus the wep dmg. Tho not quite nuker numbers you are doing signifigant dmg while using far less stats then a nuker. Considering that a decent set of HA and a good wep puts your adjusted parry (your parry + the HA and weps parry + you and - adversary) at well over 300 makes it a viable if not prefered option to 1H and sheilds.
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