General

Demon Slayer and Battle Mage character card give a small amount of Status Resist and Damage Reduction to all characters in that world. Shade's link skill allows you to cheat death at a 10% rate (basically, there is a 10% chance of not dying after taking fatal damage), no cooldown.

I'm not sure why would you choose a class simply because they have a certain stat instead of working on getting said stats on the characters you enjoy, but anyways, if I had to recommend tanky classes with respectable damage, I would say Mihile (greatly buffed in the recent path, no the joke he used to be anymore), Shadower, Mechanic and Shade.

i can't get everything i wish for but i wish i could but i can't

Go marksman! They have insane damage reduction and you have all the gear already!

shadower matches that criteria

just use a goddamn power elixir, pleb

mechs have mad dr dood

@num2005: Every single warrior class has DR% except for drk. Shads meso guard protects themselves from damage so 1/1 doesn't actually take them down to 1 HP. Also they are evasion based. Get enough evasion and you won't get hit ever by regular monsters. Not much you can do against % HP based attacks but that's the struggle for every class except for paladin and mihile who can mitigate those HP based attacks by 10%.

@epikkhighh: thanks!
so beside pally/mihile/kaiser/AB, what other class has DR% !?

@num2005: oh. why not just get a pet with auto hp then? and get the 5 cygnus knight link skills for 25% status resist.
angelic buster has damage resist but idk if you want to play that lol

@num2005: Mihile is fine for bossing. Go check the Mihile forum and watch a guy solo Cvellum

@epikkhighh: i know, but if u get hit the %DR you have nullify the 1/1
if i have 100HP and 30% DR (kaiser), and I get 1/1 I will be left with 30hp instead of 1, which often allow you to sruvive

@num2005: the 1/1 thing is more so an attack than status ailment.. you need status resist for like... skill sealed, accuracy down. though i believe if you make a shadower, the tank thief, the smoke screen skill lets you avoid just about everything for a certain amount of time.

@someyounguy: http://ellinia.net/threads/all-classes-catagorised.44726/
read the note in red at the bottom xD

@num2005: Mihile's DPS is higher than pally.

OT: The only classes that I know of off the top of my head with straight %DR(works against %hp attacks) are pallies (and mihiles I think?)

@num2005: No, his DPS is quite good. He is far superior to paladins in terms of DPS. He also has a skill similiar to parashock which shares his status resist with his party: and, in turn, gives himself 5% more damage per party member with a max of 20% extra damage (this includes yourself as a party member). Mihile is very underrated and is the class I chose for reboot as he is everything you want in a warrior. It might just be my biased opinion but I like and enjoy Mihile's gameplay.

@epikkhighh: oh i didnt even knoew avoidance could avoid status effect xD
well what is the tankiest thief class I can make then?!(for bossing)(any with damage reduction?)

why not make a thief and avoid the 1/1? though i didnt see a lot of avoidance till 200 ish. as of 210, i probably get hit by the 1/1's every.... 10 attempts? status resistance shouldnt be a problem if you make 5 cygnus knights for 25% status resist..

@someyounguy: hey thanks!! but isnt mihile the same as a paladin? low dps, and less effective than a paladin?

Mihile has everything. Some people say he's boring but that's objective. His 1v1 skill has bad range so you will need control to play him properly. DS is another class that has both but not against % HP based damage. Pretty much any warrior would be your go to except for drk.

Not sure about shade since that was released after I had stopped but kaiser you can hotkey your skills and use command skills. To use his dragon slash you have to mash attack button.