Nope, unless you are fighting undead or daedra with the fighter's guild passive, that's pretty normal. You can use the earthen heart skill line to build it up again in long fights, but one of the downsides of great survivability as a tank is a slow road to ultimate gain. That said, it usually only takes about 5 mobs for me to renew my ultimate, and honestly, it rarely is necessary for me to drop a second ultimate in a boss fight, even against world bosses/public dungeon bosses. I soloed everything all through V10 areas, and had no trouble as a tank dk.

That is the upside to the dk tank, I agree. It takes a lot of ammo to kill us.
Thanks for the quick replies and I will happily keep trudging along

As a tank, you could go werewolf for the ultimate points when you take damage. Then keep your werewolf ultimate on your tank bar, and the ultimate you want to use on your utility bar.

Drazhar14 wrote: »

As a tank, you could go werewolf for the ultimate points when you take damage. Then keep your werewolf ultimate on your tank bar, and the ultimate you want to use on your utility bar.

This is a good idea, but then there are fights with poison, and a poison resist ring might not be the route you want to go if it means losing armor or SR rings.

Epona222 wrote: »

Ahem... if you have a resto staff handy and there are other players around, pop magelight on and spam heals - every time you get spell crit on healing you charge your ultimate a bit, so it works better if you have as high spell crit chance as possible.

The only way you could do this on a boss fight is if you had another tank to pull the boss off you while you did this, AND with H Armor set, you're not gonna have spell crit, so I would say "No" to this.


TBH, there isn't any way to build Ultimate fast enough as a H armor DK Tank, or any H Armor Tank. It's best to use it wisely cause for most parts, you'll only get one shot.


As for this, I believe they need to add an addition passive to 5/5 set H Armor, like maybe while blocking too, gain additional Ultimate per piece of item you have after 5/5. (This is just an idea, don't take me too seriously)

Afaik you do get ultimate for tanking, when blocking ultimates charge..

Usually a well placed standard is all you need (or magma armor).

But if you want to gain more ultimate I suggest looking into becoming a werewolf. There is a passive, when maxed, grants 5 ultimate every time you are hit and can occur every 4 seconds. So all you have to do is block and it will help gain ultimate over time.

I haven't done it on my DK, but my NB WW tank uses sap essence while blocking which lets me drop a veil almost every mob.