celer83 wrote: »

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meekmiko wrote: »

As long as you're in a group who knows what they're doing you can literally wear nothing, with the exception of a weapon of course, in the Normal Craglorn Trials. I've participated in Naked Trial runs with some of my guilds in the past, lawl!

Meaning you can wear what you want when it comes to the easiest stuff.

• Fortified Brass puts you over the resistance cap (at least when you build like I do).
• Green Dragon Blood. The scaling on it is horrible. Use the other morph, Coagulating Blood, instead.
• Absorb Missile. Forget it. I am opposed to inconsistent, situational skills, e.g. this will only proc when you take ranged damage. It's an unneeded skill anyway. I sometimes use the other morph, Defensive Stance, but generally I do not have either on the bar.
• Yes, use Igneous Shield. Alcast's reasons are valid, albeit he misses the two most important ones, namely the activation of Earthen Heart passives. The single most important use of this skill is that it gives you 1K stamina back, while you're blocking. The second is that, as an Earthen Heart skill, it also gives the group Minor Brutality.
• Heroic Slash. An outdated skill. Don't use it. It's too expensive for what it does and will only cause you stamina sustain issues.
• Use Resolving Vigor, instead of Echoing. The latter helps the group, but Resolving Vigor includes Minor Resolve nowadays, so we use that to get our resistances up. It's also a more powerful self-heal.
• Use Frost Clench instead of Inner Rage. The latter has a horrible, almost non-existent animation, which means you can never see what you're doing. Frost Clench is much better.
• Balance is just a horrible idea, since it inhibits your self-healing. Tanks have historically used this skill. I see no need for it nowadays.

• Resistance cap (33K) on the front bar without using Master's 1H+Shield.
• 40K health.
• At least 20K magicka and stamina.
• Stamina must be > magicka (so synergies give you stamina while you are blocking).

• Tremorscale is easy to get and synergises with Master's 1H+Shield.
• Master's 1H+Shield is easy, but very time-consuming to get. Optional for that reason. Just use anything else in the meantime. For example 2x Seducer would give you magicka recovery.
• Hardened Armor activates Burning Heart and gives you Major Resolve. Furthermore it's a decent and decently cheap shield that was possibly buffed since Alcast made that build. I completely disagree with a skill (Balance) that nerfs your self-healing for 4s, so I use the standard DK skill instead.
• I have Unrelenting Grip on the front bar. This is also a ranged taunt nowadays, however with a shorter range than Frost Clench and it is a 2nd tier taunt, a soft taunt. If the other tank has a target hard-taunted with a "proper" taunt, pull skills do not take away taunt from the other tank. They only taunt untaunted targets. This makes it possible to coordinate taunts with the other tank. They might have their priority targets hard-taunted. You can, then, freely spam chains without running the risk of taking their targets away from them. I basically run into trash pulls, hard-taunting my own priority targets with Frost Clench. I then swap to the front bar and start blocking with 1H+Shield. The start of big trash pulls is the most dangerous time, so I tend to clamp down on block. At the same time I can freely spam Unrelenting Grip in all directions to pull stuff in and/or taunt it, without a risk of interfering with the other tank's job.
• Reviving Barrier is something you could use to help the group, but it's mainly here for the added magicka regen from a passive. You might use Aggressive Horn instead.
• Backbar: As mentioned Frost Clench is a hard taunt. It also has a longer range than the chains. You need it from time to time.
• Inner Light is there purely to get the magicka up on the back bar, more or less matching the magicka enchant of the shield on the the front bar. You might slot something else instead.
• Cauterize was recently buffed and also heals the group.
• Blockade of Frost activates and creates 100% uptime of your Infused Crusher enchant while it lasts and the boss (or a mob) stands in it. Note the enchant only affects 1 target, hopefully the boss. Blockade keeps up the Crusher enchant even when you bar swap.
• Resolving Vigor. Mainly for the Minor Resolve, but also for the heal, especially if you find yourself in a Negate field (rare) and can't cast magicka skills. Furthermore you need this skill if you ever wear the Powerful Assault set on the backbar, which is one of the standard tanking options.
• Magma Shell. Your get out of jail free card. I have this on the back bar, because there are some build options that will either prolong it's duration (Elf Bane set) or lower the cost (Blessing of Potentates set). These are sets I only have on the back bar when I use them.