Thoughts on Resilient Yokeda, aka Defending Warrior

El_Borracho

This one has been sitting around in the bank for a while and I finally gave it a tryout last week. PVE, paired it with an assortment of tank gear: Livewire, Alkosh, Ebon, you name it, in different configurations. Ran some dungeons, as its not suited for trials at all. Pretty meh. Group support is non-existent, self-support is underwhelming. Overland content was as expected, too much resistance, zero offense. The proc damage/healing feels like an afterthought.

PVP, paired with a variety of sets, both using the heavy body pieces and/or the weapons and jewelry. Nice resistance, but again, zero offense. The cooldown on the proc renders it almost useless in sieges or prolonged engagements, and the 4,000 damage it metes out doesn't really make up for that. I suppose if you wanted to run an invincible tank that stands in the middle of a group and slowly kills players who refuse to self-heal, you could get it done in around 20-30 seconds.

Anyone have better success with this set?

kringled_1

When used on weapons, they are shiny and with a nice sfx, what more do you need from a set?

More seriously: I currently use it on one PvE tank. I've seen it listed among viable selfish sets when a tank needs to be operating on their own/with little support, along with similar self-healing sets such as Leeching plate, Bahraha's curse in heavy, etc. I don't have a scenario to test it for this usage compared to other sets though, so I can't tell you if it works better or worse than the other sets.
I can't imagine that any of the defensive tank sets are particularly useful in overland PvE, and in PvP I suspect it double dips into Battle spirit and is probably not useful there either.
Sadly even when I use it I'm going to have to give up the weapon visuals with Wrathstone, as I have two one handers, one shield, and no destro staves for this set. (Had been double S+B)

El_Borracho

@kringled_1 LOL. The effects are pretty sweet.

I appreciate the reply. It sounds like I got the most out of defending warrior that can be expected. Kept it around because in theory that 5th piece seemed like it could work in PVP in a 1v5 scenario, until I found that I wasn't noticing much of an effect. Its too bad, had the jewelry in gold and a pair of great 2H weapons and all the purple body pieces one could want. Time for the scrapyard.

Gorrest

The proc use to be bugged in that any damage during when it proceed it would heal you. Was doing 20-30k heals from that set when it went off. They since fixed it

BxBourne

Gorrest wrote: »

The proc use to be bugged in that any damage during when it proceed it would heal you. Was doing 20-30k heals from that set when it went off. They since fixed it

Anyone used it since, any feedback?