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Tanking and Undaunted Abilities

Jochamo
Jochamo
I am a new leveling DK tank. I have done a run through on the the first three instances. Moving forward, I wanted to see how much resource I should put into the "Undaunated" skill line. Can experienced tanks tell me the undaunted skills that they have found helpful, and under what circumstances those skills are best employed?

My quick glance suggested that INNER FIRE skill and BONE SHIELD skill could both be useful. Also, both passives, UNDAUNTED COMMAND and UNDAUNTED METTLE look to have value.

Are the passive only active with an Undaunted skill on the bar?
  • Lifsteinn
    Lifsteinn
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    The passives in Undaunted skill line are always active regardless of your action bar skills.
  • RoyJade
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    The two passives are must have, alway active and very, very useful, especially for a tank. More resources AND more regen (via light/medium passives with one light and one medium) ? Bonus resources for each synergy, when a tank use a lot of synergy ? Definitively, yes.

    For the active skills, inner fire with the magicka morph is awesome. For a lot of enemies, you will not be able to taunt them at short range, so inner fire is a must have.
    Bone shield is… good, but not as good as some other abilities. The synergy is very good and useful in a few situation (when the boss burst your team), but a good healer can do better and there is often something better to do. Moreover, allies rarely use the synergy because it's a dps loss, especially with random players.
  • Jochamo
    Jochamo
    Thank you @RoyJade. I will work on getting the skills and situationaly testing the bone shield.
  • Merlin13KAGL
    Merlin13KAGL
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    The taunt, definitely. The shield, meh...6 second duration makes it honestly better for your group than you (10 second synergy)

    Necrotic has situational uses.

    Place points into the on that gives healing for synergy - you should have lots of opportunity to press 'X'

    The one for bonus health with mixed armor should have one point right away (1% is 1%), but don't worry about necessarily actually having mixed armor until later, if you wish.

    You'll end up finding more than enough skillpoints/skyshards to fill out this line as you wish along the way.
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  • yake82
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    Inner Fire is must have.
    I never use Bone shield

    I dont mix armor when tanking so that passive is useless, i still have points in it though.
    Synergy activation passive is great. Im constantly smashing synergies for spear shards, atronachs, conduits, purifys and whatnots
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