Hey all!
So, I am a main PvP Templar healer, and I wanted to try something new. So I made a Warden and planned to use her as an Ice Tank with Guard. On paper everything sounded rather good, and I like playing support style characters. Here is the gear I am running:
5 Desert Rose
5 Pariah
1 Choke thorn
1 Domihaus
Currently I am S&B and Lightning staff, but as soon as I get a resto staff of Desert Rose, that will be my back bar.
Skills:
S&B - Gripping Shards, Arctic Blast, Bull netch, Shielded Assault, Mystic Guard, U: Enchanted FOrest
Lightning (Will be Resto) - Ice Fortress, Leeching Vines, Corrupting Pollen, Matures EMbrace, U: Perma Frost
Stats in No CP:
32k HP
18k Mag
19k Stam
1k for both recoveries (Desert Rose takes care of the Mag Recovery and then some, I feel like I never run out)
Now, I envisioned this playstyle as a more mobile-ish CC tank. Able to jump to enemies and friends. The ability to drop a guard on someone and leeching vines is a lot of fun, and has gotten me some compliments. I do almost no damage, but nothing moves around me.
However, I'm thinking I could get more out of this build, and this playstyle. To start, if I get focused by two good players, or 3-4 average players I melt. I can hold block and spam Arctic Blast to delay it, but I will go down. So I was hoping to tap into the community as a whole and get some ideas on what to do.
A few things I was looking at:
Black Rose - Sounds good in theory, but even with 7 heavy, the return is an additional ~300 Mag and Stam per 4 seconds. Doesn't seem worth it for a full set.
Malubeth - Back when I played in 2016 this was king, but has since been nerfed. Is it still viable?
Engine Guardian - Meh? Random proc like that wouldn't end well I think.
Robes of the Hist - Moving all my mag sustain to infused jewelry and running this set sounds like an option to me, but unsure what it looks like in practice.
Zaan - Can't hurt me if they are dead right? Might let me be both offensive and defensive at the same time. Lord knows they aren't getting away from me.
Shackle Breaker - The tried and true. I know you can't go wrong with this, but I don't think it addresses my issue.
Sanctuary - 12% healing increase for the group? Yes please, and it helps me out.
Basically I'm looking for gear, ability and play style recommendations to better run this build.
EDIT:
I was considering Troll King as well, but being a Vamp I don't think it's worth it (Undeath and Pariah just synergize so well!), but I keep myself at stage 3 to reduce the incoming fire damage.
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