What is the highest dps Pve tank build you have ever managed to make

Desperatu · September 2017

And by that, I mean still remain viable as a tank for hard mode dungeons - aka armor capped/close to capped, sturdy gear/cp in block reduction + decent hitpoints, all while pumping as much dps as possible on your own.
Sometimes party sucks, and they all die, and you wind up with boss at 25 % health and you have to kill him on your own for example, how much damage could you do to it on your own, using only your own skills?
What sets would you use, class, and combination of skills to get the utmost damage on your own while still retaining the label "tank".

Hybrids will do, magicka tanks will do, stamina tanks with damage sets on will do, as long as you can still tank properly.

I'm thinking something along the lines of plague doc+ necropotence+monster set(groth-ilambris)+ sorc, might do a lot of damage on it's own, still have good hp, and be able to taunt everything in sight with inner fire, and tank properly if the gear is all sturdy.

Post your builds/opinions, looking forward to what others may have cooked up.

(just hitting armor cap is not enough, sturdy is a must for block cost reduction)

DocFrost72 · September 2017

Blazing shield templar.

In trash packs with ritual of retribution and blazing shield it is just disgusting how much you'll pull when your shield breaks almost in cast.

ezeepeezee · September 2017

I can do it in vHM dungeons with my stamina Warden. It's wearing 5 Ravaging (2 heavy, jewelry) and 5 Briarheart (3 medium, DW + S/B).

Sturdy is in fact not a must. What is a must is self sustain. With the Warden's toolkit, bloodthirst, blood craze and shimmering shield it can stay healed and put out damage simultaneously. Only my shield is sturdy, and I have 30 some-odd points into shadow ward. Tanks don't need to perma-block, they only need to block the big hits. Everything else they can mitigate and out-heal. Only a few dungeons, especially the new DLC ones, are best served by a 'meta' tank.

Anyway, it uses bi-stat food for vet dungeons, and has CP into both healing done and received (5/7% respectively iirc). For the most part its CP is standard DD stuff.

It's not hitting resistance caps but that is also unnecessary if you use your abilities wisely.

It's still a work in progress, but I'm liking it a lot.

PS. I only use Veli for extra damage, I use Bloodspawn for actual tanking.

Tasear · September 2017

Shield tanking makes you good at keeping group alive with your Shields and yourself. Mind you has poor sustain for blocking and aggro control.

cpuScientist · September 2017

I use to run a magSorc to tank all hardmodes, in necro willpower and back then health or Stam 1 pieces. It was soooo good. Had resto back bar master sword front bar. Easy to tank kept the team alive with heal pet, and managed to still pull 20k with dots pets and heavy attack lol. Have not tried since resource nerf.

Besides that I ran a stamDK with draguar king for the max Stam and knights errant. 2 hander back bar, engine guardian chudan whatever helmet. Rally reverse slice venom claw. Me and a friend running my previous sorc build use to go around doing hardmodes for fun duo. And I have saved a bunch of runs. I even took it to manti lol. I somehow managed that fight. SOMEHOW it was dicey though.

Asardes · September 2017

MagSorc tank, not armor capped but who cares when I can perma-shield? I was getting as high as 15K ST just running blockade and boundless (sometimes LL too) and weaving heavy attacks with pierce armor and heroic slash from front bar. Gear 5 Amberplasm 5 Willow's Path 2 Valkyn Skoria, 1H+S front, lightning backbar. I can replace Valkyn with Iceheart for even more shields. Now I also have Maelstrom charged so it could be higher. I've tanked all vet dungeons HM pre-HotR and had no issues.

cpuScientist · September 2017

Asardes wrote: »

MagSorc tank, not armor capped but who cares when I can perma-shield? I was getting as high as 15K ST just running blockade and boundless (sometimes LL too) and weaving heavy attacks with pierce armor and heroic slash from front bar. Gear 5 Amberplasm 5 Willow's Path 2 Valkyn Skoria, 1H+S front, lightning backbar. I can replace Valkyn with Iceheart for even more shields. Now I also have Maelstrom charged so it could be higher. I've tanked all vet dungeons HM pre-HotR and had no issues.

Yeah my pal used to main tank for us back when shields were 20 seconds. Only couldn't do vSO cause everything goes through shields in there sadly

Asardes · September 2017

cpuScientist wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

MagSorc tank, not armor capped but who cares when I can perma-shield? I was getting as high as 15K ST just running blockade and boundless (sometimes LL too) and weaving heavy attacks with pierce armor and heroic slash from front bar. Gear 5 Amberplasm 5 Willow's Path 2 Valkyn Skoria, 1H+S front, lightning backbar. I can replace Valkyn with Iceheart for even more shields. Now I also have Maelstrom charged so it could be higher. I've tanked all vet dungeons HM pre-HotR and had no issues.

Yeah my pal used to main tank for us back when shields were 20 seconds. Only couldn't do vSO cause everything goes through shields in there sadly

Actually shields won't really expire in any serious fight, but get depleted quite fast. And some things you still need to block since they down the shields in one hit. For example a lot of the bosses in vCoS hit for 50K+ so an 18K hardened ward would only absorb a tiny part of the initial damage. Same for Chudan's spit. I actually timed my 1H+S ult to reflect that back; on DK I just used wings. I wouldn't bring anything but a DK in trials though.

Brrrofski · September 2017

My saptank pre Morrowind. Soloed many bosses like Valkyn skoria, last boss of tempest island etc. In decent time too. Never needed healer (could tank wgt and prison pre nerfs without one) and could sustain for ever too. Also tanked vet sanctum and hell ra.

Was flat out broken in all fairness.

cpuScientist · September 2017

Asardes wrote: »

cpuScientist wrote: »

Asardes wrote: »

MagSorc tank, not armor capped but who cares when I can perma-shield? I was getting as high as 15K ST just running blockade and boundless (sometimes LL too) and weaving heavy attacks with pierce armor and heroic slash from front bar. Gear 5 Amberplasm 5 Willow's Path 2 Valkyn Skoria, 1H+S front, lightning backbar. I can replace Valkyn with Iceheart for even more shields. Now I also have Maelstrom charged so it could be higher. I've tanked all vet dungeons HM pre-HotR and had no issues.

Yeah my pal used to main tank for us back when shields were 20 seconds. Only couldn't do vSO cause everything goes through shields in there sadly

Actually shields won't really expire in any serious fight, but get depleted quite fast. And some things you still need to block since they down the shields in one hit. For example a lot of the bosses in vCoS hit for 50K+ so an 18K hardened ward would only absorb a tiny part of the initial damage. Same for Chudan's spit. I actually timed my 1H+S ult to reflect that back; on DK I just used wings. I wouldn't bring anything but a DK in trials though.

Yeah we tanked everything. And it was shield stacking. If it was something that needed excessive blocking I would just do ebon necro tri stat the ebon. It was very fun. My friend though tanked vet trials for us on it. Tanked vDSA everything. It was amazing tbh. Now I'd probably just go with a ulti gen tavah/dragon bloodspawn and war machine/werewollf hide for 4 man's on a stamWarden. Good heals and good uptime on major Slayer.