Today

[Leshma]

Tankiness means nothing in battle if you're left alone. With ATH you can flee and fight multiple opponents at the same time. I know the advantages of both extremes, and still think AGI has the upper hand in battle. For duels, it depends.

[Gravoth_iii]

Tankiness means nothing in battle if you're left alone.

What? Why? Unless you get completely cornered you can still fight back. Just dancing around people, not caring about taking hits because landing one does more to them. On several occasions have i been fighting 1v3-5 and still came out on top. I'll just tank and block untill i can land one hit and thats a big hit. Sure running can help but unless you have a team hiding away you will still have to deal with the same amount of enemies, and even if they split you have to duel them and win that.

[WITCHCRAFT]

What? Why? Unless you get completely cornered you can still fight back. Just dancing around people, not caring about taking hits because landing one does more to them. On several occasions have i been fighting 1v3-5 and still came out on top. I'll just tank and block untill i can land one hit and thats a big hit. Sure running can help but unless you have a team hiding away you will still have to deal with the same amount of enemies, and even if they split you have to duel them and win that.

It depends on your weapon choice as well. Very STR focused builds can still make rapid attacks with higher speed weapons.  The only slow weapons that are viable when you are surrounded are the crushthrough mauls. Dumb people block. Smart people scatter. Either way, you actually get a chance to swing. If you have something like an English bill you're just fucked. Then again, if you are fighting alongside your teamates with an English bill and high STR you can 1-shot people so I guess it's fair.