NB stam tanks

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Llilium
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you know, I'm not sure why i always tend to take the road least traveled with my gaming styles. i guess theres always some appeal.

playing a NB stam tank has been pretty fun. i enjoy the fact that there will be more resources in the new patch due to the changes to consitution, although the changes to bracing are going to hurt gravely ( will need to sacrifice other things just to get that 20% back, like very expensive gear or champ points, which will sacrifice survivability overall).

a few things crossed my mind however that would really benefit a stam build NB tank. Leeching strikes / Siphoning attack is always a staple of the build, and out of the two LS seems to be more geared to the tank since it isn't basing itself off a proc chance, plus reduces damage done. the thought that crossed my mind though is that it's kind of... weak. a stam NB doesn't really have any real return abilities and particularly stamina-scaled heals are not really available aside from Valor. valor does an ok job, but only at high attack power.

I was thinking that buffing the values of Leeching strikes would be a pretty good idea. maybe increasing the value of health returned by 4-5% total health rather than 2. we don't have many things that scale off of health, and even bone shield's going to be going on that wayside too (thats not a bad thing) .

if those suggested values seem too high, maybe having the ability proc off of single target direct abilties would help too.

i kind of feel that the health return is the biggest issue. getting stam doesn't seem to be too hard (unless you're pvp tanking, but that could also be a side affect of the low health return) and even though we don't have shields we do have the options to decrease damage done by 15% through deep slash which is not too bad against anyone but the most damage-power stacked of players.

what do you guys think? I really kind of feel like stam NB tanks are missing something critical, and magicka NB tanks don't seem to be affected nearly as much due to all the sap abilities.
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    Bone shield is a solid shield and getting buffed in DB. As a stam tank I can only asume yiur stacking around 30k stam.

    As for class heals, only 2 classes have heals useful for a stam tank, DK and Sorc. Templar class heals are worthless for a stam tank for obvious reasons. Vivor is the go to heal for both stam Temps and NB though a Templar can get more out of it due to healing buffs available.

    Additionally, NB tanks have native mobility tha goes beyond any class using blurr morph for speed and the morph of shades that post us back to the shade permits us to avoid much damage other classes cannot.
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