Tank gear setups and tips for newcomers to the field.

zerosingularity

Since there is no stam regen while blocking, and that is likely NOT changing anytime soon, Tanks have become a rarity. Therefore, I feel it is a positive idea to post a good set of tips and gears that can be used to outfit a Tank to survive almost any onslaught in PvE. (Save the top top end stuff.)

For starters, any positive input from Tanks who have loads of experience are completely welcome. Keep in mind this is meant to be informative, not min-maxed best Tank ever.

My idea of a solidly built Tank follows the following few rules: (Pros can go beyond these because experience.)

Assume your DPS is trash, your focus is on controlling the flow of battle and protecting allies, let the Damagers do the damage and the Healers heal. (Pros can dual spec here, but don't attempt it until you have loooots of experience.)

Always be mindful of your resources, and keep your armor buffs and taunts up.

Even you the Tank should not stand in red, and learn when you can drop block to Heavy Attack.

HP up the wazzooo, probably around 28k. (Experience lets you lower this a bit but start here if new.)

Look sharp! Glass, Xivkin, Trinimac, you gotta wear sexy looking armor!

All tanks regardless of class need defensive skills and ways to return resources. These include:

Defense - Major armor/ward buffs
Resources - DK Ults/Igneous Shield, NB Siphoning Attacks, Templar House(lol), Sorc Dark Deal and Shield spam. And of course Tri-pots.

DKs and NBs I think are the currently 2 easiest classes to tank with, and are great for those new to tanking and wanna help out their buddies.

Some common tanking sets include (5 Heavy and 2 Light is pretty standard):

Main crafted:
5pc Hist bark http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Hist+Bark+Set
or 5 pc Armor master http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Armor+Master+Set

Jewelry/2 armors:
5 pc Footman's Fortune (DSA and vDSA) http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Footman's+Fortune+Set (Sometimes available on guild traders)
or 5 pc Pariah (Orsinium Daily Delves/World Bosses) http://elderscrollsonline.wiki.fextralife.com/Mark+of+the+Pariah+Set

Note: I would not mix Pariah and Armor Master together as having either one of them will bring you to hard cap resistances. (Pariah 5pc gives you 5k armor/spell resist at full health, and scales from there.)

Last 2 slots Optional:
Mephala's Set - ~1k DPS and slow as long as you heavy attack every 10 seconds.
Blood Spawn's set - More defense and ult gen, basic and a solid choice
Engine Guardian set - vastly improves resource sustain for tanks in the new Meta.
Any mix-matched monster sets or crafted set if you lack these.

Note: If you have no monster sets and no access to Footman's/Pariah, I suggest 3pc Endurance and 4pc crafted set (Armor Master/Song of Lamae for passive defense and HP, but work on upgrading.)

As time goes on, an aspiring Tank will undoubtedly get better, find better guides, sweeter gears, etc... My hope here is that this helps increase the number of good Tanks out there, as currently they are a minority. (Everyone is a DPS ) Good luck to all and I look forward to seeing some new Tanks. (Groups LOVE a great tank on the harder content!)

Edit: Updated from posts below and a few other things I thought of.

Use Tri-stat (purple) food, the resources make a big difference.
Taunt ~ every 10 seconds, conserves resources and lets you keep aggro should you or the boss move away. (Do note that not EVERYTHING must be taunted.)
Pull mobs together to make it easier for Damage dealers to AoE, use roots/CC if you have them. (No fear, counterproductive.)
Have the Undaunted Magicka taunt on one of your bars just in case.
Keep boss debuffed (Stamina taunt) or Reaper's Mark/Ele Drain (when using magicka taunt.)
Learn to block-cast skills, so you keep your block up while doing skills.

To better sustain blocking, I suggest ~70 or more points into Block Cost Reduction (champion tree) and 1 Block Cost reduction gold Jewelry Enchant.

VodkaVixen1979

I am one of those tanks that stopped tanking. There is so much solo content in this game, being setup as a tank made killing anything a long and torturous process. I do still tank on occasion, so there are a few things I do to help since I don't have a min/max tank set-up. (I have a nord, magicka Templar).

1. Eat the highest level purple food possible.
2. Create a 3pc tanking jewelry set that is easy to swap to.
3. Use the magic based taunt to conserve stamina.
4. Ask your healer to run shards/repentance on their bar.
5. Have pots ready...
6. Use an ability that does damage and replenishes health to keep you alive in between blocking.

I am far from an elite player, but many ppl who slot themselves as tanks recently don't even know what a taunt is and have no food on them (wut????). I have tanked everything except vWGT, vICP, and vCOA just using these simple steps. The dungeon world would be a much better place if people read about the role before jumping in with both feet!

Liofa

I think the most important one is learning the strategies of the dungeon/raid before you enter . I am playing a tank and if needed I join as a DD . The random tank we find usually don't know anything about the strategies and just jumps to everything and wipes the group . My most important advice would be this : Go watch some videos on Youtube before joining a group . This way you will know what you do and you won't get cursed / kicked . Also , when you do better as a tank , you enjoy tanking more .

Second most important thing would be helping DDs doing their damage properly . Meaning you should keep the boss in one place if possible . This way ground AOE skills will always hit the boss . Also you should gather trash together so AOE skills will hit more enemies which means easier and quicker encounters .

And for gods sake , don't spam your taunt . I get really mad when I can't get aggro of boss because off-tank didn't read the description of taunt skills . Taunted enemy will attack you for 15 seconds whatever your teammates do . Just refresh your taunt every 10 seconds . Not 15 seconds , not 13 seconds . 10 is ideal . Because if you don't have magicka for ranged taunt and boss threw you back ; if you didn't refreshed your taunt earlier , you will lose aggro . It seems like a long shot but I see it happening several times . Trust me , refresh your taunt every 10 seconds .

Don't block if you don't need to . Bosses will do some kinds of attacks where you will take the same damage , blocking or not . If you choose to block at those moments ; I am sorry but you are doing it wrong .

Learn to animation cancel . Light attack , heavy attack , block , roll dodge , swap , bash . Learn all these things and you will see that you are doing much better . Putting a light attack + block cancel between boss' attacks will highly increase your ultimate regeneration . If you are standing there and only using a taunt , you gonna have a bad time . Literally , you will get bored . ( also you will suck ^^ )

Shaiba

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

4. Ask your healer Templar Healer to run shards/repentance on their bar.

K thx And don't only rely on this... you should manage your ressources by yourself as a tank..

Septimus_Magna

Debuffing is also a very important task of a tank, you'll need to keep major fracture and major breach active. This improves dps and reduces dmg you take.

Histbark and Engine Guardian is a safe and effective tanking combination.

zerosingularity

If you run a resource return skill, like DK Igneous shield with 20k Stamina, combine that with well-timed ULT usage and optional tri-pots, you don't ever need Templar shards even for vet White Gold Tower. Having high ish (300+) champ points helps.

Good suggestions everyone, keep it up!

Updating main post btw, thanks to some of the ideas here, and a few other things I thought of.

CreepyPahuska

zerosingularity wrote: »

Defense - Major armor/ward buffs
Resources - DK Ults/Igneous Shield, NB Siphoning Attacks, Templar House(lol), Sorc Dark Deal and Shield spam. And of course Tri-pots.

DKs and NBs I think are the currently 2 easiest classes to tank with, and are great for those new to tanking and wanna help out their buddies.

I'm not a huge fan of dark deal for sorcerer tanks. I rely mostly on heavy attacks. Harness Magicka restores magicka too but it's not exclusive to sorcs, and Energy Overload restores a lot of magicka, but tanking in Overload requires a bit of experience and practice.


About the sets :

Footman and Histbark are probably the most used sets. It's a good combination but it's important to note that footman doesn't exists in v16.
There are actually a lot of good other sets for tanking, like Alessia, or Spectre's Eye for magicka users (at least in 4 pieces). What matters in the end, is that you get the proper stats for a tank, not how you get them.

I'm not a big fan of Monster Helms for tanks. To be honnest, I used them for a while but now I prefer a normal crafted set instead, but If I had to name a few, Mephala wouldn't be in the list, but rather Lord Warden Dusk, Blood Spawn or maybe Malubeth.

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

4. Ask your healer to run shards/repentance on their bar.

IMO that's the worst advice that can be given to a tank. First, It's not the healer's job to manage your own ressources, the tank must be able to do it himself. Second, Healer doesn't mean templar, and templar doesn't mean healer, it's time that people start to understand that, If you rely on your templar healer to manage your ressources, if one day you end up in a group with a NB healer for example, what are you going to do ?

Liofa

More suggestions incoming !

If you are a DK , try to max out your stamina instead of Health . Because DK has the most mitigation out of all classes and that's why you can tank everything with 25k Health . Push Max Stamina and Magicka for better sustain . Since Earthen Heart gives %5 of your total stamina with every use of an Earthen Heart skill , if you have more Max Stamina , you will have better sustain !

Also if you are a NB , keep your Siphoning Attacks up all the time and light attack + block cancel all the time . You won't even have to use simple stamina potions . But do this carefully . If you get hit by an attack while you are in light attack animation . You may get 1-shot .

Also make a build that doesn't depend on Templar skills . There are insanely good healers out there who are not templar . If you can do this you will prefer NB healers instead of Templar ones . Because they deal the most damage out of all healers . It is like running with 3 DPS and 1 tank . ( probably I am the only one that thinks nightblades are better healers )

Also , most common mistake most tanks do is not running Heroic Slash . I am not talking about Ultimate regeneration . I am talking about Minor Maim . It works on bosses . The reason you see the message ''The target is immune'' is the snare Heroic Slash has . Most bosses in game are immune to CCs . For a tank , the most useful debuff on the boss is Minor Maim and people don't use it because they think bosses are immune to it ^^ .

paulsimonps

CreepyPahuska wrote: »

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

4. Ask your healer to run shards/repentance on their bar.

IMO that's the worst advice that can be given to a tank. First, It's not the healer's job to manage your own ressources, the tank must be able to do it himself. Second, Healer doesn't mean templar, and templar doesn't mean healer, it's time that people start to understand that, If you rely on your templar healer to manage your ressources, if one day you end up in a group with a NB healer for example, what are you going to do ?

One of the reasons people also don't see a lot of tanks pug is actually cause of this. Tanks usually do premades. Yes it can be done without a templar healer, but if you had the option which would you choose? And saying that a templar healer shouldn't help you with resource management with shards is like saying that healers shouldn't run elemental drain to help their magicka dps. In premade trial group healers are not just healers but full on support. All you can do to make the job easier for the dps and the tank. So Elemental Drain, Repentance, Shards, Siphon Spirit and Mystical Orbs are all things expected of healers in a trial. And most healers also do that in group dungeons, but at a less extent since a good tank and self sustain not only resources but health as well making it so that the healer can help dps instead.

Also complete side note, am I the only one to run the range taunt as the stamina version? My magicka is for CC and Shields but my stamina regain is good so hey, stam taunt away. Also I tend to only use it when absolutely necessary.

CreepyPahuska

Liofa wrote: »

( probably I am the only one that thinks nightblades are better healers )

Nope, I'm here too My girlfriend has a templar healer and a nightblade too, so I had the chance to try both, and I definitely prefer the NB
Templar are not better than nightblades at healing, so I'd rather have someone who adds DPS

EDIT :

@paulsimonps :

but if you had the option which would you choose?

We posted at the same time so you have the answer above. I definitely prefer to play with NB Healers.

And saying that a templar healer shouldn't help you with resource management with shards is like saying that healers shouldn't run elemental drain to help their magicka dps. In premade trial group healers are not just healers but full on support

I'm not saying that a templar healer shouldn't run support abilities, I'm just saying that a tank shouldn't have to rely on this in his build.

Liofa

paulsimonps wrote: »

CreepyPahuska wrote: »

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

4. Ask your healer to run shards/repentance on their bar.

IMO that's the worst advice that can be given to a tank. First, It's not the healer's job to manage your own ressources, the tank must be able to do it himself. Second, Healer doesn't mean templar, and templar doesn't mean healer, it's time that people start to understand that, If you rely on your templar healer to manage your ressources, if one day you end up in a group with a NB healer for example, what are you going to do ?

Also complete side note, am I the only one to run the range taunt as the stamina version? My magicka is for CC and Shields but my stamina regain is good so hey, stam taunt away. Also I tend to only use it when absolutely necessary.

I also use it when absolutely necessary too . That's why it is magicka for me . Let me explain . You said you use your Magicka for CC and Shields . I assume CC is for trash mobs and Shields are for boss fights . While fighting trash mobs I use Cinder Storm , Chains and Talons . If there is a enemy that I can't chain , I check if it is worth it to taunt or not . If it is a hard-hitting mob , I taunt . If not , I just leave it there . Since my build has 17k Magicka and 800 Magicka Recovery I can do these things all day and save my stamina pool for blocking all the damage I get from trash . My point is , it depends on the build you are using . I always keep my eyes open for the changes in Enduring Dragon build . If I was using your build , I would go with Stamina morph too . As you have 10k Magicka , using 1/3 of it for taunting would be a waste indeed .

paulsimonps

Liofa wrote: »

paulsimonps wrote: »

CreepyPahuska wrote: »

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

4. Ask your healer to run shards/repentance on their bar.

IMO that's the worst advice that can be given to a tank. First, It's not the healer's job to manage your own ressources, the tank must be able to do it himself. Second, Healer doesn't mean templar, and templar doesn't mean healer, it's time that people start to understand that, If you rely on your templar healer to manage your ressources, if one day you end up in a group with a NB healer for example, what are you going to do ?

Also complete side note, am I the only one to run the range taunt as the stamina version? My magicka is for CC and Shields but my stamina regain is good so hey, stam taunt away. Also I tend to only use it when absolutely necessary.

I also use it when absolutely necessary too . That's why it is magicka for me . Let me explain . You said you use your Magicka for CC and Shields . I assume CC is for trash mobs and Shields are for boss fights . While fighting trash mobs I use Cinder Storm , Chains and Talons . If there is a enemy that I can't chain , I check if it is worth it to taunt or not . If it is a hard-hitting mob , I taunt . If not , I just leave it there . Since my build has 17k Magicka and 800 Magicka Recovery I can do these things all day and save my stamina pool for blocking all the damage I get from trash . My point is , it depends on the build you are using . I always keep my eyes open for the changes in Enduring Dragon build . If I was using your build , I would go with Stamina morph too . As you have 10k Magicka , using 1/3 of it for taunting would be a waste indeed .

Hehe yea that makes sense :P If I ever get my fricking Lunar Bastion so I can flip to all tri-glyphs I would have much higher magicka. But don't want to waste Hakeijos on a set I am going to want to replace.

Liofa

1 more suggestion comes to mind since I mentioned Cinder Storm in my previous reply .

Always use AOE snare while fighting lots of trash . Since you can't aggro all of them , they will try to attack your DD teammates . They probably will be running around spamming Steel Tornado and they must be close to enemies to deal damage . If trash can run at full speed as well , you can be sure that your DD mates will get hit . I highly recommend using a AOE Snare like Cinder Storm . For example , it provides %70 snare which is really nice . It is a small radius but you can gather them in it with chains and keep them in it with talons . After that point , you will see that your DD teammates are more safe and your healer can provide more DPS without the need of healing .

paulsimonps

Liofa wrote: »

1 more suggestion comes to mind since I mentioned Cinder Storm in my previous reply .

Always use AOE snare while fighting lots of trash . Since you can't aggro all of them , they will try to attack your DD teammates . They probably will be running around spamming Steel Tornado and they must be close to enemies to deal damage . If trash can run at full speed as well , you can be sure that your DD mates will get hit . I highly recommend using a AOE Snare like Cinder Storm . For example , it provides %70 snare which is really nice . It is a small radius but you can gather them in it with chains and keep them in it with talons . After that point , you will see that your DD teammates are more safe and your healer can provide more DPS without the need of healing .

I know people always say that but it kinda always confuses me. Though it takes a second or two I always taunt everything. Usually in normal or the older veteran dungeons the trash doesn't survive that long that it becomes a problem anyway but I just tank it all anyway. Taunt one or two real quick, Choking talons to stop them all and then taunt the rest. Taunt Ranged last and either pull them to you or make melee follow you to them. Start of with the big guys, most notably heavy weapon wielders, they do upper cuts. Then sword and boards to redirect their "charge" attacks, then move over to one ranged and pull in the rest of them. I mean why not taunt it all?

Liofa

paulsimonps wrote: »

Liofa wrote: »

1 more suggestion comes to mind since I mentioned Cinder Storm in my previous reply .

Always use AOE snare while fighting lots of trash . Since you can't aggro all of them , they will try to attack your DD teammates . They probably will be running around spamming Steel Tornado and they must be close to enemies to deal damage . If trash can run at full speed as well , you can be sure that your DD mates will get hit . I highly recommend using a AOE Snare like Cinder Storm . For example , it provides %70 snare which is really nice . It is a small radius but you can gather them in it with chains and keep them in it with talons . After that point , you will see that your DD teammates are more safe and your healer can provide more DPS without the need of healing .

I know people always say that but it kinda always confuses me. Though it takes a second or two I always taunt everything. Usually in normal or the older veteran dungeons the trash doesn't survive that long that it becomes a problem anyway but I just tank it all anyway. Taunt one or two real quick, Choking talons to stop them all and then taunt the rest. Taunt Ranged last and either pull them to you or make melee follow you to them. Start of with the big guys, most notably heavy weapon wielders, they do upper cuts. Then sword and boards to redirect their "charge" attacks, then move over to one ranged and pull in the rest of them. I mean why not taunt it all?

Usually , they just die before taunting . Instead of spending the time taunting , I just gather them in one place . For example , in first boss of veteran Darkshade Caverns (the mage in white robes) ; I just taunt the boss and put Cinder Storm near him and chains and talons all day . With 2 decent AOE-damage-dealing DDs everything dies quickly . Since noone will be getting one-shot by trash (if you got the aggro of the ones that can one-shot) , just gathering them together instead of taunting makes the combat easier and faster .

zerosingularity

Just tested Dark Deal for a Sorc and it takes you out of block while casting. It is a risky skill to use while tanking, with a huge resource return payoff. Would be better if it did not remove you from block though. Suggest only using it when you know it is safe. (Procs Minor Prophecy, giving your allies ~3% spell crit for 20 secs, so it buffs DPS!) I would suggest popping a shield just before using the skill, to be safe.

Great suggestions and tips so far guys! Loving it!

To further contribute to the discussion, when I tank, I personally sit at hardcap mitigation, root all the adds, and only taunt the big guys, pulling the rest in with DK chains. This lets my DDs wipe the trash fast and stay safe.

And Heroic Slash is awesome, especially for DKs. Reduce damage, more ult gen, all around a great skill. NBs can use Dark Shades though, since that is magicka.

Also something that I didn't mention, Tanks and Tanks to be should invest in the 1-handed and shield tree. (Sword and Board.) The passives are very useful for tanking and sustaining your blocks.

VodkaVixen1979

Well, very nice to take a bashing from everyone. I was assuming this was tanking for the non elitist, if I was wrong about that, please forgive me for giving SUGGESTIONS as to what works for me. My boyfriend is a Templar healer, so if that comment doesn't apply to you, just ignore it... Don't be a D...

Liofa

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

Well, very nice to take a bashing from everyone. I was assuming this was tanking for the non elitist, if I was wrong about that, please forgive me for giving SUGGESTIONS as to what works for me. My boyfriend is a Templar healer, so if that comment doesn't apply to you, just ignore it... Don't be a D...

No one is bashing anyone . He said he doesn't approve your advice . If you gonna get mad everytime someone disagrees with you , you won't have any fun in Internet ^^ . You can continue to ask for shards , repentance etc. Btw you said you are a templar . Why don't you use Repentance yourself ? Since it has a short range for the stamina restore , you may not be able to get stamina everytime if you leave that to your healer . Also it will boost your all recovery stats by %10 just for slotting it .

VodkaVixen1979

I heard from my bf, "oh, everyone is chastising you for not being able to self sustain". I run repentance when I need to, but it is more difficult to keep track of mob death when you are focused on the boss. If ppl want to keep queuing with pugs that have no food and don't know what a taunt is, by all means. I will keep soloing to my hearts content and doing dungeons with ppl who are worthy of the time.

Stannum

As for NB now I'm tanking in DPS sets (3 willpower + 5 julianos + 3\4 magnus) 5 heavy + 1med+1light. siphoning attacks up, almost permablock (not hard with good stamina return via siphoning). So while tanking I can add good DPS for the group and also help with healing.

CreepyPahuska

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

As for NB now I'm tanking in DPS sets (3 willpower + 5 julianos + 3\4 magnus) 5 heavy + 1med+1light. siphoning attacks up, almost permablock (not hard with good stamina return via siphoning). So while tanking I can add good DPS for the group and also help with healing.

Just out of curiosity, what's your single target DPS while tanking with your NB ?

@VodkaVixen1979 : I'm not bashing anyone, I just think that your suggestion could mislead "newcomers to the field."

VodkaVixen1979 wrote: »

If ppl want to keep queuing with pugs that have no food and don't know what a taunt is, by all means

I'm not sure to fully understand the meaning of this, and how this is related to the topic... ?

Stannum

CreepyPahuska wrote: »

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

As for NB now I'm tanking in DPS sets (3 willpower + 5 julianos + 3\4 magnus) 5 heavy + 1med+1light. siphoning attacks up, almost permablock (not hard with good stamina return via siphoning). So while tanking I can add good DPS for the group and also help with healing.

Just out of curiosity, what's your single target DPS while tanking with your NB ?

swallow soul and impale for finishing.

Stannum

Liofa wrote: »

1 more suggestion comes to mind since I mentioned Cinder Storm in my previous reply .

Always use AOE snare while fighting lots of trash . Since you can't aggro all of them , they will try to attack your DD teammates . They probably will be running around spamming Steel Tornado and they must be close to enemies to deal damage . If trash can run at full speed as well , you can be sure that your DD mates will get hit . I highly recommend using a AOE Snare like Cinder Storm . For example , it provides %70 snare which is really nice . It is a small radius but you can gather them in it with chains and keep them in it with talons . After that point , you will see that your DD teammates are more safe and your healer can provide more DPS without the need of healing .

I usually try to get first aggro, so for large groups i use lotus fan gap in the middle and then sap essence, if there are no high hp melee mobs I use caltrops also, so when DD can get aggro from trash mobs that mobs are usually already dead.

adamt88yep

I've got a Templar tank.

Run 5 pc Juggernaut and 4 pc Noble Conquest with 3 pc Endurance and will be swapping out NC with Engine Guardian on occasion.

Also Caltrops helps if you don't have Talons for CC

paulsimonps

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

CreepyPahuska wrote: »

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

As for NB now I'm tanking in DPS sets (3 willpower + 5 julianos + 3\4 magnus) 5 heavy + 1med+1light. siphoning attacks up, almost permablock (not hard with good stamina return via siphoning). So while tanking I can add good DPS for the group and also help with healing.

Just out of curiosity, what's your single target DPS while tanking with your NB ?

swallow soul and impale for finishing.

I think he meant how much Damage per second do you do during a boss fight as a NB tank with that set up.

Stannum

paulsimonps wrote: »

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

CreepyPahuska wrote: »

dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO wrote: »

As for NB now I'm tanking in DPS sets (3 willpower + 5 julianos + 3\4 magnus) 5 heavy + 1med+1light. siphoning attacks up, almost permablock (not hard with good stamina return via siphoning). So while tanking I can add good DPS for the group and also help with healing.

Just out of curiosity, what's your single target DPS while tanking with your NB ?

swallow soul and impale for finishing.

I think he meant how much Damage per second do you do during a boss fight as a NB tank with that set up.

I have no DPS-meater installed )

Shaiba

On my NB tank i do 6/7k single target DPS, but she's not v16 (v13 almost v14) and it's only during easy content fights (i haven't done vICP nor raids on this char). And I haven't the same gear (atm i'm using 5 kagrenac + 2 agility arcane + 2 endurance arcane + 2 torug 6H 1L (i haven't the undaunted passive on this char atm :x )) as @dancing.in.the.webeb17_ESO, so I think he is doing more than me. Just an information to complete what he said

zerosingularity

Just a reminder that while it is great to hear how people are successful with their methods, this thread is more focused on how that can help newcomers and poor tankers improve their role.

It is easier to add DPS in the easier dungeons (vet Wayrest Sewers) than it is for others (vet White Gold Tower). When I need to DPS (Planar Inhibitor) I swap gears to actual DPS gears myself. (2x Skoria, 5x Julianos, 3x Willpower, Maelstrom Inferno) Not everyone has this level of gears, but in some places there are times when a Tank needs to swap to DPS, so it is good to have a set of DPS gears, just in case. (vWGT, vDC are the ones that come to mind the most.)

When you are tanking, remember that holding aggro and surviving the onslaught while keeping your resources up are priority. You can think about adding some DPS (or healing) after you got this down, it gets easier the more experience you have.

Also the overall tone of the thread is starting to dip a bit, so lets perk it up! Tanking can be fun once you know how to do it, and in the harder content you are indispensable. Keep up the good work guys and gals!

Liofa

zerosingularity wrote: »

It is easier to add DPS in the easier dungeons (vet Wayrest Sewers) than it is for others (vet White Gold Tower). When I need to DPS (Planar Inhibitor) I swap gears to actual DPS gears myself. (2x Skoria, 5x Julianos, 3x Willpower, Maelstrom Inferno) Not everyone has this level of gears, but in some places there are times when a Tank needs to swap to DPS, so it is good to have a set of DPS gears, just in case. (vWGT, vDC are the ones that come to mind the most.)

Exactly . Every tank should use DPS gear while fighting Inhibitor . Most common mistake is using Critical Rush to close portals if you are Stamina based . When two seperate portals spawn at opposite sides of the boss area , they can't close them and the mobs give us trouble . I highly recommend using a bow there . Light attack + silver shards close portals in 1 shot . Since you can shoot everything if you are next to ''aggro thingy'' it is much more easier and faster . Also you will be more mobile since rolling with a bow in your hand gives Major Expedition ( increase movement speed ) .

mrromeo187

What is the best heavy set in 8 trait ?

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mrromeo187 wrote: »

What is the best heavy set in 8 trait ?

Depends of your class, if you're magicka or stamina. Why 8 traits only ?