My DK Tank Build, What Gear Should I Wear? Any Suggestions?

Immortal_Dark410

Hey Everyone, So I am in the process of making a Orc Dragon Knight Tank Sword & Shield Build This is my layout, I wanted to know what type of gear to use like is there a specific Set item or name of item that i should use per piece of armor out there and if so what is it. If anyone has any recommendations to make to the build at all please let me know I'm new to this game been only 1 month about so would love advice or input and thanks a lot for the help. on a side note the character would be my 1st one and i would work on woodworking, clothing, and blacksmith as my crafts.

This is my ATTRIBUTE Layout Will be as follows :
10 Magica, 10 Stamina and the rest would go into health

My SKILLS layout will be as follows:
For my First weapon Set
Empowering Chains
Burning Embers
Engulfing Flames
Burning Talons
Deep breath
Ultimate : Standard Of Might

For my 2nd Weapon set
Shield Assault
Flame Lash
Ransack
Green Dragon
Eruption
Ultimate : Corrosive Armor

As an extra was thinking Heavy Armor Skill ---> Immovable Brute & Undaunted Skill ---> Spiked Bone Shield

PASSIVES :
Draconic Passives will be:
Iron Skin
Burning Heart
Elder Dragon
Scaled Armor

Ardent Passives Will be:
Kindling
Warmth
Searing heat
World Of Flame

Earthen Passives will be:
Eternal Mountain
Battle Roar
Mountain Raising
Helping hands

One Hand & Shield Passives will be :
Sword & board
Deadly bash
Fortress
Deflect Bolt

Heavy armor Passives will be:
Constitution
Resolve
Juggernaut
Bracing
Rapid mending

Orc Passives will be:
Brawny
Robust

Undaunted Passive will be:
Undaunted Mettle

CRAFTING SKILL Points as follows:
Blacksmith Skills:
Metal Working
Keen eye (1 skill point only)
Metal Extraction

Clothing Skills:
Tailoring
Keen Eye (1 Skill Point only)
Unraveling

Woodworking Skills:
Woodworking
Keen Eye (1 Skill Point only)
Wood Extraction

Xvorg

Why don't you use all the points in Health? You can build a lot of stamina and magicka from the sets and the glyphs.

Check here: http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Set+Bonus+Crafting+Locations

According to what you said, you are an orc and you have a huge bonus to stamina and health, maybe it is good idea to use magicka only for GDB and a crowd control skill, such as Burning Talons. Unstable Flame and Burning breath use stamina and do a lot of dmg (plus the speed dmg given by the warmth passive), and both can be combined with the weapon line. Also you can have a look at the skills in the Fighters Guild line, which are mainly focused on stamina too. And as a last resort, you can always become a were wolf and bump your dmg over 9000.

For me, GDB is a key skill. I try to use magicka as less as possible since that skill sometimes makes the difference between a good and a dead DK, especially for a tank.

Immortal_Dark410

k cool thanks for the input if you or anyone else has more ideas please let me know im in the process of also doing research wanna make my fist character properly

Xvorg

Well, try not to use full heavy armor for the 7 armor items. You can combine 5 heavy with 2 medium or light armor items to receive the bonus for those passives. In the case of the MA passives, the 8% recovery you will get for the Wind Walker passive are nice, but is up to you.

Same happens with the LA passives, the 16% spell resistence you can get can also help you a lot with your tanking ability.

The wiki I left you is, in my opinion, one of the best places to inquire about your building, check the armor skills here

http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Armor+Skills

Have a look at the passives too. For example the build I'm trying now doesn't use of the AoE flame abilities, so there are 2 points I don't need to use which can be saved for something else. Same happens with the Fighters Guild pasives. Some of them are pretty useful when dealing with daedra or undead. Even, if you want to take a walk by Cyrodil, they will be useful when facing vamps and WW (skilled tracker).

Finally, the champion skills can change your playing style in a dramatic way. Once you reach VR, don't forget to add the points to your account (they are associated to your account, pay attention to that). I read this blog some weeks ago and it helped me a lot to understand how it works

http://deltiasgaming.com/2015/02/23/eso-champion-system/