DPS builds for tanks

mildlylucid

Some fights (such as Planar Inhibitor) do not require a tank. So as to not be a dead weight, tanks need to be a dps.

What are some good sets and/or builds that are good for doing decent dps on a tank without having to change CP and not use too many more skill points?

WalksonGraves

Just swap velidreth and you'll be doing more dps without costly respecs.

Liofa

If your friends have high DPS , you can do this :

When you have the aggro , you don't get portals . First aggro taken by someone else , then you take it and no one takes it again . You hold the boss in place and everyone nukes .

If you don't have enough DPS for that , you can do this :

Equip a bow on back bar . Light attack + Poison Injection = portal down . Even if you couldn't get the portal down , the DoT from Poison Injection will take care of it before a add spawns . You don't need a specific build for that fight . Just make sure you don't use the damn Critical Rush to close portals . So many people trying to do this and still fails because when you move to the one corner of the room with Critical Rush and another portal spawns at the other corner of the room , you have to sprint and probably run out of stamina . Just stay in the middle and shoot them down .

Good luck !

Vildebill

Just bring some DPS gear with you and swap. I tank and DPS on the same char, champion points are obviously not optimal for either role, but i still tank almost everything and pull at least 25k DPS.

Asardes

I swap my tanking gear to:
1L/5M/1H 5 x Hunding's Rage + 3 x Night Mother's Gaze (3 infused 4 divines, stamina enchantments) + 3 Robust Agility, sharpened Maul/Bow do passable DPS on the boss and close the portals in one shot or at most in the 2nd tick of poison injection.

My bar setup is:
2H: Critical Rush | Executioner | Wrecking Blow | Rally | Camouflaged Hunter | Flawless Dawnbreaker
Bow: Poison Injection | Focused Aim | Ingenous Shield | Resolving Vigor | Spiked Armor | Ferocious Leap

My stats are:
10K magicka | 18.5K health | 38.2 K stamina (buffed with blue CP150 health + stamina food) |
1.1K stamina regeneration (serpent mundus) | 4K weapon damage (buffed with rally + ingenous, on 2H bar)

My rotation is:
Grab pinion, Focused Aim (debuff), poison injection (DoT), a few light attacks for hawk eye passive and ult buildup
Boss comes in range: Wrecking Blow alternates with heavy attack (empower & follow up passive), dawnbreaker when it's loaded, best after a WB to get the first tick empowered, executioner with heavy attack - they go of at the same time - under 30%. Reapply debuff & DoT when they run out. Keep rally and ingenous active at all times, hit vigor when needed. The healer should have an easy time if everybody self heals and can DPS the boss and close the portals.

Strategy:
Keep boss at the pinion while in red phase to stack AoE heals/buffs (ritual, healing springs, combat prayer) and DPS easier. When the boss turns blue kite her to the furthest ends of the room - the one with the door and the opposite on. When she starts chasing you do a quick roll with bow to activate hasty retreat passive. When reaching the end the next grabs the pinion and kites he to the other end. When cornered do ferocious leap, as the shield can keep you alive for a few seconds until another player can grab the pinion (and get you the Out of the Frying Pan achievement in the process). When you get the gray screen run around the pinion and shoot instinctively at places where portals appear. Poison injection focuses them automatically, light attacks start of finish the job, so you can close them without actually seeing them. Don't use gap closers or attacks with a cast time because you will run out of time - if you gap close into a portal then the next appears at the other end of the room it will take you a few seconds to reach it. I think the spawn rate has increased since the last update and there is even less room for error there.