We would like to get some opinions from players that played both of this char at high levels. We know for a fact that war/cleric can tank better because 1h+shield + healing buffs/skills. But excluding grind pt, blader can not lure, which is the better all around defensive unit? If you have to stand and spam healing stuff with euro, it would not be much easier to be mobile and still have great defense as a chinese. For instance, if you go jobbing or FW.
And of course your task is to be first line of defense, would a blader be better at moving around without concering too much with buffing as to a warior/cleric who has to monitor his healing closely. Our ultimate question is, we would like a defensive char and we prefer a blader, but would it be that much weaker in tanking in comparison with a war/cleric. The reason we do not say cleric/war is to put emphasis on being mobile and still be some kind of a threat in the pvp, not just a tank pinyata.
If you do not want to be a tank dummy then we will definitely go with blader. In FW or jobbing, if you get mobbed by players, you will have a harder time as compared to a blader. We are pretty sure there are some full time cleric healing and checking your HP, but still as an euro ur healing is a big issue. Lets face it. If a warrior/cleric can get healing buffs, bladers can too. He can just add a cleric in his party to keep check on his HP and it will be the same as having a cleric subclass, without really having one. Whats more, Bladers are much cooler.