I'm using plague doctor + green pact armor&weapon(full set on both bars), medium/light infernal guardian head&chest

not a really good build atm (solo is okay hard to die as long as opponent is not a great dps, but 1vX is duh)..however with this build you need no magician or warlord champ, so next patch will hardly affect this build, while next patch affect all others a great deal.

So I'm guessing my build will be good enough in the next patch currently I can solo all IC sewer bosses (no molag bal of course, never tried solo) with this, I'd call that an achievement for a tank :P

Naerri wrote: »

No advise for people that wanna play troll builds here...Thanks! :P

Lmao, I just want some lulz

Magdalina wrote: »

I use Plague and Lich, works great in a small group where I can guard the healer. And in case you were wonderin, yes, the damage the guarded person takes does proc your blazing shield

I'm not sure how viable it'll be next patch though. Sustain is already kind of tricky, for both stamina and magicka.

Lich? Hmm that's different

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

I use Plague and Lich, works great in a small group where I can guard the healer. And in case you were wonderin, yes, the damage the guarded person takes does proc your blazing shield

I'm not sure how viable it'll be next patch though. Sustain is already kind of tricky, for both stamina and magicka.

Lich? Hmm that's different

Not really, it's actually super common for blazing shied builds(which it sounds like you want. At 45k+ health there's no reason not to ). Blazing is pretty pricey so you need a lot of recovery. Lich is amazing there.

What do you think about Desert Rose instead? And also should I go Imperial or Argonian? Cause honestly the goal isn't really to be a Blazing Shield build to stack as much health as I can but I just wanna be Tanky asf, Cause honestly blazing shield builds once their shields are down are usually kinda squish

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

I use Plague and Lich, works great in a small group where I can guard the healer. And in case you were wonderin, yes, the damage the guarded person takes does proc your blazing shield

I'm not sure how viable it'll be next patch though. Sustain is already kind of tricky, for both stamina and magicka.

Lich? Hmm that's different

Not really, it's actually super common for blazing shied builds(which it sounds like you want. At 45k+ health there's no reason not to ). Blazing is pretty pricey so you need a lot of recovery. Lich is amazing there.

What do you think about Desert Rose instead? And also should I go Imperial or Argonian? Cause honestly the goal isn't really to be a Blazing Shield build to stack as much health as I can but I just wanna be Tanky asf, Cause honestly blazing shield builds once their shields are down are usually kinda squish

Your shield should never be down on a blazeplar
I brought it up because you mentioned 45k+ health, which is where Blazing becomes viable. If you aren't gonna use it, don't go so far, stay at 30k-ish and get moar magicka so you can keep yourself up with BoL or/and possibly use Annulm to survive. But blazeplar is a lot better for Guard duo imo, hell it's perfect. The main issue of a blazing shield templar is smart people will just not attack you and leave you alone with nothinhg you can do about it, but if you're guarding the healer, they kind of don't have a choice...they have to either attack you despite your shield or try to burn down the guarded person despite the guard - but this will proc your blazing too.

Desert Rose used to be really op but since they nerfed it from 1 second cooldown to 4, Lich is imo better.

5 plague doctor 5 dragonguard (drop that nova more and provide even more damage reduction trolling) 1pc shadow rend, 1pc skoria or Nerenith for the health. All magika regen glyphs. Will do just fine for a guard trollplar and make you that bit more tanky when that shield drops. For the people that ignore you use drain essence, the stun gets their attention quite well, esp if they are magika based as it'll kill half their Stam breaking free.

Ocelot9x wrote: »

I still don't get why people enjoy that play style

I want the luls of them not being able to kill me

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

I use Plague and Lich, works great in a small group where I can guard the healer. And in case you were wonderin, yes, the damage the guarded person takes does proc your blazing shield

I'm not sure how viable it'll be next patch though. Sustain is already kind of tricky, for both stamina and magicka.

Lich? Hmm that's different

Not really, it's actually super common for blazing shied builds(which it sounds like you want. At 45k+ health there's no reason not to ). Blazing is pretty pricey so you need a lot of recovery. Lich is amazing there.

What do you think about Desert Rose instead? And also should I go Imperial or Argonian? Cause honestly the goal isn't really to be a Blazing Shield build to stack as much health as I can but I just wanna be Tanky asf, Cause honestly blazing shield builds once their shields are down are usually kinda squish

Your shield should never be down on a blazeplar
I brought it up because you mentioned 45k+ health, which is where Blazing becomes viable. If you aren't gonna use it, don't go so far, stay at 30k-ish and get moar magicka so you can keep yourself up with BoL or/and possibly use Annulm to survive. But blazeplar is a lot better for Guard duo imo, hell it's perfect. The main issue of a blazing shield templar is smart people will just not attack you and leave you alone with nothinhg you can do about it, but if you're guarding the healer, they kind of don't have a choice...they have to either attack you despite your shield or try to burn down the guarded person despite the guardn - but this will proc your blazing too.

Desert Rose used to be really op but since they nerfed it from 1 second cooldown to 4, Lich is imo better.

Meh don't really wanna use blazing tbh, For just being annoying to kill and tanky should I do 5 desert rose and 5 plague doctor or 5 desert and 5 reactive?

No reason to go Plague in that case. Health is a pretty dead stat outside of a few builds, you're not gaining much by having more health but missing out on a whole lot. And I'd still say that Lich>Desert

Also in this case I'm not sure I'd go the Guard route unless you are the one guarded. A non blazing templar spamming heals is likely to get focused as is, you probably don't want to add much to it. With Reactive though...I dunno, might want to play around with it some and see I suppose.

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Magdalina wrote: »

I use Plague and Lich, works great in a small group where I can guard the healer. And in case you were wonderin, yes, the damage the guarded person takes does proc your blazing shield

I'm not sure how viable it'll be next patch though. Sustain is already kind of tricky, for both stamina and magicka.

Lich? Hmm that's different

Not really, it's actually super common for blazing shied builds(which it sounds like you want. At 45k+ health there's no reason not to ). Blazing is pretty pricey so you need a lot of recovery. Lich is amazing there.

What do you think about Desert Rose instead? And also should I go Imperial or Argonian? Cause honestly the goal isn't really to be a Blazing Shield build to stack as much health as I can but I just wanna be Tanky asf, Cause honestly blazing shield builds once their shields are down are usually kinda squish

Your shield should never be down on a blazeplar
I brought it up because you mentioned 45k+ health, which is where Blazing becomes viable. If you aren't gonna use it, don't go so far, stay at 30k-ish and get moar magicka so you can keep yourself up with BoL or/and possibly use Annulm to survive. But blazeplar is a lot better for Guard duo imo, hell it's perfect. The main issue of a blazing shield templar is smart people will just not attack you and leave you alone with nothinhg you can do about it, but if you're guarding the healer, they kind of don't have a choice...they have to either attack you despite your shield or try to burn down the guarded person despite the guardn - but this will proc your blazing too.

Desert Rose used to be really op but since they nerfed it from 1 second cooldown to 4, Lich is imo better.

Meh don't really wanna use blazing tbh, For just being annoying to kill and tanky should I do 5 desert rose and 5 plague doctor or 5 desert and 5 reactive?

No reason to go Plague in that case. Health is a pretty dead stat outside of a few builds, you're not gaining much by having more health but missing out on a whole lot. And I'd still say that Lich>Desert

Also in this case I'm not sure I'd go the Guard route unless you are the one guarded. A non blazing templar spamming heals is likely to get focused as is, you probably don't want to add much to it. With Reactive though...I dunno, might want to play around with it some and see I suppose.

Know anything about Dk Guard Builds?

Well the undoubtedly worst(in the sense of being most troll-ish and annoying) is the health regen one xD Stack health regen skyhigh and you're good. Sets like Orgnum's, Beekeeper(or whatever it was), Troll King. No damage, some cc, but enough health regen to tank a zerg. Guard can probably work with that.

That aside DKs on the whole are pretty tanky. You could probably play with some sets and come up with something decently tanky and still capable of doing some semi decent damage/cc. Won't tell you specific sets for that though.

Lich is a great set and you might as well farm it now, since you'll need it next patch for a lot of magika builds.

There is a duo on PC NA Trueflame.

They stay tight and close to each other.

Can't tell if one is guarding the other or if both are guarding each other.

I imagine it takes a bit of practice and coordination to stay together and play like that, but they are certainly very tough to kill.

And in the chaos of battle they can be a distraction from the players that we really need to focus on.


The duo I saw was EP.

I'm honestly just gonna make a dk guard tank....I think I'll have more fun with it and I'll be able to sustain better...5 Fasallas, 5 Hist Bark and 2 Malubeth/Blood Spawn