Best armor sets for tanking and why?

AverageJo3Gam3r

hrothbern wrote: »

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

You guys that are running 5 footman and 5 histbark/whitestrakes, how do you keep up resources? In boss fights I'm constantly out and feel that I need the regen of willows.

are you DK or NB?

DK. I use heroic slash and weave light attacks with my taunts to get ultimate. Battle roar from using the DK standard provides a nice boost, but still find I need to chug mag/stam pots. Even then it's not enough on some boss fights. A good example was last nights gold spindleclutch, the boss that spawns the waves of adds you have to kill before you can damage him. After taunting a bunch of them, I'd run low on resources no matter what I did. Our healer didn't have shards, was that the problem?

Rune_Relic

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

The new 5-set Willows Path (1x health/mag/stam regen + 15% regen) might also be good for tanks, has anyone tested this set?

Yes

There is two very similar armour sets that offer massive regen increase...the 5th option of one of them is redundant anyway.
So as long as you have 2x weapons to go with 7x armour.....its all good.

Stamina costs are much higher for tanks now days.
Having massive health/magicka/stamina regen I find much more useful now (with longer TTK).
3 heavy / 2 medium / 2 light with the same skill point spread (for multiplying passives).
light offers double protection now so don't hit passive mitigation so hard.
stamina can be burnt through easily when going hyper defensive with block/dodge.
So I simply switch to magicka which takes much much much longer to burn through ...while the stamina regens.
I can be constantly spamming magicka OR stamina... but not both indefinitely.
So you need to optimise both magicka and stamina so they don't counteract each other and complement each other instead.

I simply cloak for mitigation/evasion and sap for added health.
Drop a fear if necessary to reduce the pressure of an onslaught.
The weakness is light damage.

I don't like having to use a PVP and a PVE build.
I wanted to create an all rounder feasible for both.
Its something others should experiment with to see if it suits their playstyle.

I preferred the bombard/snare build...but that's not really possible with the regen armour sets.... and more and more stuff was immune.

WolfingHour

hrothbern wrote: »

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WolfingHour wrote: »

vr14 5 orgnums scales + 5 footman + 2 valkyn skoria on my NB tank because it still works perfectly.

Working towards getting 5 leeching. I might upgrade to vr16 when I get that IF the 5 piece triggers SA.

I understand that you get 5 DOT ticks from adds in the cloud (that does not move).
So also the first tick is a DOT !
Nice for Valkyn Skoria... not nice for SA

But it can give very good Heal
And I will going to grind for it.
For PVE.

see post:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/234033/has-anyone-already-experience-with-the-leeching-plate-set#p1

That's a damn shame. I had a sneaky suspicion that would be the case.

Honestly, I don't see why it can't proc SA since it's damage, DOT or otherwise. Then again refreshing is bugged so this might be a bug as well.

I reckon that you have the set on the live server right now? Would you mind terribly putting a bug report on? I think it's a bit weird to submit it myself considering I don't have the set.

hrothbern

WolfingHour wrote: »

hrothbern wrote: »

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WolfingHour wrote: »

vr14 5 orgnums scales + 5 footman + 2 valkyn skoria on my NB tank because it still works perfectly.

Working towards getting 5 leeching. I might upgrade to vr16 when I get that IF the 5 piece triggers SA.

I understand that you get 5 DOT ticks from adds in the cloud (that does not move).
So also the first tick is a DOT !
Nice for Valkyn Skoria... not nice for SA

But it can give very good Heal
And I will going to grind for it.
For PVE.

see post:
http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/234033/has-anyone-already-experience-with-the-leeching-plate-set#p1

That's a damn shame. I had a sneaky suspicion that would be the case.

Honestly, I don't see why it can't proc SA since it's damage, DOT or otherwise. Then again refreshing is bugged so this might be a bug as well.

I reckon that you have the set on the live server right now? Would you mind terribly putting a bug report on? I think it's a bit weird to submit it myself considering I don't have the set.

I do not have the set either at this moment
see the link of my last post

Refreshing Path does not proc SA, but the other Morph Twisting Path does proc SA.