I guess it looks nice enough and should work for solo and easy group content. I wouldn't expect miracles in trials though.

Inner Beast for secondary taunt would be better than double ransack.
Health regeneration isn't really the most important stat to improve for a tank.

wanted to point out a slight error on the skills for the second bar. Puncture (Ransack) doesn't reduce Spell Resistance, that's the other morph Pierce Armor. Since he talks about stealing some armor when you use it on the first bar in tank mode I assume he meant to have Ransack, so he just forgot that it's not taking down Spell Resist. Also I wish my build was here, I posted one a few weeks ago for my Nightblade tank, named the Dark Knight, I posted it just before 1.5 hit so I've tweaked it some but the build still holds true.

It is important to note that Puncture shouldnt be on the 2nd bar at all considering he is using dual wield there. However, the attached video clears it up. His bar 2 slot 4 is the beloved Blood Craze - low cost instant high dmg with life steal DoT.

Regarding the Ransack vs Pierce Armor above: PA is the obvious choice for this build given his gear will over-cap his armor easily, so the Armor buff of Ransack is useless. Like most tanks, he probably started with Ransack and later respeced to PA, thus the confusion.

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Works farly okay on trash mobs or mobs below lvl.
But its a joke then it comes to pvp, and for endgame gruoping.

As anything els with the NB that is not a staff NB or a standart NB build.
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Though this build is interesting. It doesn't drive any new ideas.
And in fact, provides "conflicting" information.

Hist Bark provides dodge chance.
Blur (and its morphs) provide miss chance.

They do not stack. Evade, which is MA skill i believe does stack (with HB), but is bugged. And doesn't work properly...

Additionally, this build provides other "conflicts" that follow up users have identified...Tank Builds typically should be stam based, outlining Sap Essence...as a key skill...convolutes this thinking (since its Magica based).

But, i can understand the reasoning (authors). Sap + VoB is SO KEY to NB end game, and essential if you are going to tank/dps. That any build, that doesn't cornerstone Sap+VoB isn't endgame viable. This pretty much eliminates most Stam NB builds (except gank builds).

Hopefully, Update 6 will allow use STAM for Sap. This would open to door for greater flexibility in NB development. But...with out a dedicated NB heal. All of the new FLEXIBILITY will be lost, eventually defaulting NB back to dps/gank builds.

NB needs a class specific HEAL, to make other builds viable.


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