Need a Damage-dealing set for Solo play on a Tank, any ideas?

thedovahmon

I'm just about done with my Tank build. But I'd like a second set so Solo/Overworld play and questing won't be as much as a slog on my Argonian Dragonknight. Note I said Set instead of Build, I'd rather not respec Attributes and CP but I would like a second set of gear and skills for dishing-out dirt when I'm not tanking in a dungeon or Trial and just want to experience the world of Tamriel, Anyone got any sets/builds they could recommend me?

John_Falstaff

Overland mobs are very very squishy and I don't think that you'll have trouble time cutting through them on any build and spec; at some point excess damage stops making much difference for overland. Wear any usual medium damage sets, enchant everything in stamina and use either green max stamina food or tri-stat if you want a lot of magicka DK utility. CP and attribute allocation won't matter as much.

But if you seek to optimize a bit, maybe proc sets is the way to look, they hit hard and don't scale with your weapon damage anyway. Unfathomable Darkness, Red Mountain, something along those lines. Also Velidreth gives high AOE-ish burst, it's devastating in a crowd of overland mobs, more so if all three spores find a target. For a friend tank who's dead set on wearing heavy armor overland, I also advised Veiled Heritance, it's easy to proc and gives good damage boost, but that's if you insist on running heavy, I think you'll see more upfront burst with proc ones.

martijnlv40

A very easy set to get and use for damaging, is Hunding's Rage. You can just craft it in any armour you want (for the undaunted bonus) and just swap the right equipment out. As John_Falstaff said, overland is not that hard, but this should give you enough of a buff to deal with most things easily.

John_Falstaff

Oh and just as a follow-up... If you're looking for a good stamina set for overland questing / mob fighting / anything, look no further than Vicious Ophidian. ^^ I think you'll enjoy sustain and speed more than a bit of extra damage. ^^ Can pair with something bursty of your choice, burst means more overland than sustained output.

vesselwiththepestle

Julianos, Silks of the Sun, Innate Axiom or BSW and disguise yourself as Mag DK.
Hunding's/Spriggans/Red Mountain and act as you were a Stam DK.

Do you know which weapons you want to use?

If you go for Stamian weapons/sets, you should consider changing at least the Mundus (Lover). This is good especially for Procc Sets, as they benefit from Penetration. Alternatively go for Warrior, which also increases the heal from Vigor, but ideally you won't need it a lot (maybe boss fights and craglorn trash mobs).

You don't have much CP into Damage/Penetration as a tank, thus the trash mobs in overland content won't be as easy for you as for glasscannon dps builds, additionally sustain might be a bit hard because you have such low Stamina/Magicka pools. You'll need more heavy attacks. You might consider wearing Bone Pirate (you need Dubios Camoran then) for the Stamina way or Bright-Throat Boast (Witchmother's Brew) for the Magicka route. Those sets add plenty of Magicka/Stamina (which you need) and sustain, combine that with any damage set (those mentioned above) and you should be good to go.

mzprx

what i'm planning on running on my Imperial DK tank when doing overland stuff (when he reaches lvl 50) is this -

normal tanking attributes (in my case 50-60 points in health, the rest in stamina)
Maelstrom bow (Infused/weapon damage glyph)
5x Ravager on body
Knight-Errant's Mail 1h+shield and jewelry
Velidreth or Selene monster set

i will have the proper tanking gear handy, obviously, but for solo overland questing/skyshards hunting and so on i will use the above-mentioned setup. for those who do not know what the Knight-Errand's Mail is -



this and Ravager will give you enough damage so that you won't have to spend the entire day trying to kill a delve/quest boss as a tank and the only non-tanking skill line you have to lvl up is the bow line. no need for dual wield or 2 handed..

MartiniDaniels

Knight-Errant on main bar + Sword dancer on second dw bar + Tremorscale head -> 3-unit groups of mobs die in 2-3 seconds thanks to shrouded daggers, 100k mobs die in 5-6 seconds. Improved movement due to charge + you can always chains/leashes to catch that distant mage..

RavenSworn

My own thoughts: for dks, red mountain is a good dps set. For sorc tanks, usually I'd recommend thunderbug. For nb tank, usually I'd pursue for more wep damage like hundings or Briarheart. For Templars and wardens, you can even change both your sets to dps sets since you inherently have good self healing.

stevenyaub16_ESO

Thunderbug, Grotharr monster set + a stam or magicka set depending on your morphs.

Great overland set for tank and looks awesome.

Vyvrhel

If you want something heavy, as an alternative to the sets mentioned above, consider Veiled Heritance or Way of Fire (which is in practice a heavy version of Red Mountain with a slight bonus in cds). If you go VH on body and WoF weapons / jewelry it might even be relatively cheap.

Savos_Saren

For a DK tank- you really can't go wrong with:

Innate Axiom
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Max Stamina
(4 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical and 833 Weapon Critical.
(5 items) Adds 400 Spell Damage and Weapon Damage to your Class abilities.

That way- you can build toward heavy armor and still have a lot of damage added to your class abilities. Burning Embers, Flame Lash, Talons, Leap, Standard, Eruption, etc...

It's a great, well-rounded set in my opinion.

If anything else- you could also try:

Shacklebreaker
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
(3 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery and Stamina Recovery
(5 items) Adds 2000 Max Magicka and Max Stamina.

...or pair them together.

thedovahmon

Savos_Saren wrote: »

For a DK tank- you really can't go wrong with:

Innate Axiom
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Max Stamina
(4 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical and 833 Weapon Critical.
(5 items) Adds 400 Spell Damage and Weapon Damage to your Class abilities.

That way- you can build toward heavy armor and still have a lot of damage added to your class abilities. Burning Embers, Flame Lash, Talons, Leap, Standard, Eruption, etc...

It's a great, well-rounded set in my opinion.

If anything else- you could also try:

Shacklebreaker
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
(3 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery and Stamina Recovery
(5 items) Adds 2000 Max Magicka and Max Stamina.

...or pair them together.

Ngl, I think I'll be using these 2 together (Or one of them with Knight's errant), both look like very good sets to use. I'll probably wear a mixed monster set consisting of Slimecraw and Balorgh, but what Traits and Enchantments should I try for? And If I don't use Knight Errants, should I try for 2-handed or Dual-wielding? Either way, I'm gonna be back-barring a staff.

Krayl

If you're a DK you probably already have engulfing flames to help your group. You probably also have the Destro staff line maxed out as far as passives go for your staff backbar. Therefore it makes more sense to build for magicka dps.

If you're just doing easy overland stuff, then get yourself a set of grothdar (vet halls of madness is easy) then craft some Julianos. For a second set you could run Seducer (if you need help managing magicka) or Torug's pact. Both of those are crafted. You could also farm burning spellweave easily enough.

If you don't plan on swapping your mundus each and every time, then you can craft these all in infused and throw magicka enchants on them and run blue health/magicka food.

Alternatively if you still wanted to be "tanky", you could run plague doctor weapons/jewelry and then julianos or burning spellweave on your light armor and a skoria helm, this would still have you doing better damage but also keep your igneous shields pretty strong from all the health you'd have. This might be a better set up if you want to be able to solo world bosses easier.

Druid40

mzprx wrote: »

...this and Ravager will give you enough damage so that you won't have to spend the entire day trying to kill a delve/quest boss as a tank and the only non-tanking skill line you have to lvl up is the bow line. no need for dual wield or 2 handed..

I would suggest DW in place of bow for the bleeds and aoe execute.

Jeremy

thedovahmon wrote: »

I'm just about done with my Tank build. But I'd like a second set so Solo/Overworld play and questing won't be as much as a slog on my Argonian Dragonknight. Note I said Set instead of Build, I'd rather not respec Attributes and CP but I would like a second set of gear and skills for dishing-out dirt when I'm not tanking in a dungeon or Trial and just want to experience the world of Tamriel, Anyone got any sets/builds they could recommend me?

Valkryn SKoria is a nice set to throw on for some extra damage.

FrancisCrawford

@DarcyMardin had exactly this issue a couple days ago. I gave her a bunch of Unfathomable Darkness gear I'd been saving from crow quests, and she says she's been having fun with it.

But then, we really like crows.

El_Borracho

I'm doing a similar thing with a tank build as I level up skills to morph before taking him into dungeons. Knight-Errant is pretty decent for taking damage. it kind of confines you to S&B on both bars, but that's what I was looking to level skills up with, as well as figure out how they work. Pair it with something else to dish damage. Leviathan, Briarheart, Hundlings are all good options. Velidreth is awesome, but for solo stuff, Stormfist, Selene's, Grothdarr, and even something like Infernal Guardian works well with a solo tanker as it procs all the time.

Everstorm

stevenyaub16_ESO wrote: »

Thunderbug, Grotharr monster set + a stam or magicka set depending on your morphs.

Great overland set for tank and looks awesome.

Thunderbug really does a lot of damage reliably (50% chance each time you take physical damage) and on a 3 second timer. A lot of quest areas are filled with small groups so an AE proc that procs more reliable the more mobs are hitting you is just splendid.

Mojmir

i use BSW with grothdaar on my DK, everything melts. most dungeons are easy to solo or go in with group.

Brrrofski

7th legion and briar heart is a nice pairing. Heals and damage

Savos_Saren

thedovahmon wrote: »

Savos_Saren wrote: »

For a DK tank- you really can't go wrong with:

Innate Axiom
(2 items) Adds 1096 Max Magicka
(3 items) Adds 1096 Max Stamina
(4 items) Adds 833 Spell Critical and 833 Weapon Critical.
(5 items) Adds 400 Spell Damage and Weapon Damage to your Class abilities.

That way- you can build toward heavy armor and still have a lot of damage added to your class abilities. Burning Embers, Flame Lash, Talons, Leap, Standard, Eruption, etc...

It's a great, well-rounded set in my opinion.

If anything else- you could also try:

Shacklebreaker
(2 items) Adds 129 Weapon Damage
(3 items) Adds 129 Spell Damage
(4 items) Adds 129 Magicka Recovery and Stamina Recovery
(5 items) Adds 2000 Max Magicka and Max Stamina.

...or pair them together.

Ngl, I think I'll be using these 2 together (Or one of them with Knight's errant), both look like very good sets to use. I'll probably wear a mixed monster set consisting of Slimecraw and Balorgh, but what Traits and Enchantments should I try for? And If I don't use Knight Errants, should I try for 2-handed or Dual-wielding? Either way, I'm gonna be back-barring a staff.

Well, honestly, it depends on your setup- but if you plan on doing a lot of damage while using heavy, I'd suggest using The Lover (for weap/spell penetration) as your Mundus stone. If you plan on soloing a lot of stuff- you most likely won't be using your "taunt" skill (Pierce Armor from SnB which does major fracture/breech)… that's why you'd want to use the Lover as your Mundus. If you do use Pierce Armor while soloing (most likely not) then just go with The Apprentice.

You'd want prismatic glyphs on an infused head, chest, and legs while using divines on shoulders, hands, waist, and feet. Sharpened sword with a nirnhoned shield. Recovery on your jewelry.

For perfectly min/maxed gear- go with all heavy armor, medium hands, and light waist. Get your Undaunted skill line up to 9.

And, as @Jeremy mentioned- you can easily replace Malubeth with Valkyn Skoria. I actually LOVE running Valkyn. Malubeth is mostly just for VDSA for me.

If you want to go off the deep end with uber damage and tankiness- you can always go with Innate, Silks of the Sun, and Domihaus. Lots of resources and a WHOLE lot of damage (literally 1,000 spell damage added to your fire-based class abilities when Domihaus procs)

twing1_

I run 7th legion/advancing yokeda combo quite effectively.

By no means damage dealer numbers, but I can solo most dungeons in my tank set up.

John_Falstaff

Folks, we're talking about sets for comfortable overland solo play, a lot of things mentioned are clearly overkill for killing a bunch of mobs with maybe 30k health at most. ^^ I think the topic starter will get more bang from Vicious Ophidian and Velidreth since at that point cleave and the time spent moving from freshly killed stuff to the next will be more important than extra bit of damage. ^^

Narvuntien

I run around with chains and taunts and stack multiple mobs and AoE them down.

InvictusApollo

Why just one set? Get a full dps build and swap it with an addon. You still won't have ds buffs from attributes and CP points but it will be the most optimized choice possible.

thedovahmon

Thank you for the input everyone, after much thought (And advice from those off the forums), I've decided on using the Knight Errant Set along with Way of Fire and Grothdarr, using a set of skills that'll give me as much dps as possible without having to level a new skill tree and waste too many skill points. I've noticed the difference almost immediately and am killing overland foes way faster than I was able to earlier, it's like a giant breath of fresh air. Thank you for all the help everyone.

sevomd69

Leeching plate + Bahraha + Valkyn...

Everstorm

sevomd69 wrote: »

Leeching plate + Bahraha + Valkyn...

I love both Leeching and Bahraha's, for soloing dungeons. For quest content the heals shouldn't be needed and you can kill a lot faster with other sets. Most stuff will be dead before those dots run their course.

kylewwefan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYJ_Nw7UZHU


Whatever this guy is using. I would use that.

keevil111

I use Thunderbugs, Livewire, and Iceheart. AoE proc heaven.

Aalahk

One suggestion I've heard: Werewolf!

Keep your normal tank gear, use werewolf in overland and profit.