Is it best to wear all sturdy, or put infused on the big pieces for tanking?

FrostFallFox · August 2016

Totes new to tanking and stuff

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

I use Sturdy gear along with 75 points in Shadow Ward, cost of Blocking is super low! Course I MIGHT be overdoing it but oh well lol

FrostFallFox · August 2016

Yah, I put 75 into shadow ward as well for the treasure hunter passive

Synfaer · August 2016

I put infused & tri-stat glyphs on head,chest & legs. The rest is sturdy with stam glyphs + block enchant on jewellery.

Dubhliam · August 2016

Synfaer wrote: »

I put infused & tri-stat glyphs on head,chest & legs. The rest is sturdy with stam glyphs + block enchant on jewellery.

Have you considered Reinforced on chest piece?
Or do you think Infused is better?

Vangy · August 2016

I run reinforced on most pieces with infused for hakeijo pieces. Like 4/3 or 5/2 depending on situation. Puts me nicely at resist cap with buffs. Also I run triple shield play enchants and 50 pts in shadow ward to help with block. Being a stam DK, I also run tava's favour with 2 bloodspawn and 5 dragon. Battle roar + ult gen from earthen heart allows me to both perma block and toss out warhorns back to back likka boss.

hrothbern · August 2016

FrostFallFox wrote: »

Totes new to tanking and stuff

If you intend to do a lot of blocking, it is a blessing when you do not need to look all the time at your Stamina pool , so you can focus on your tank role.

75 in shadow ward is a must I think if your account has the CP's.
tri-stat armor enchants also (once your charachter reaches level 50)
20% blocking cost reduction from dodge (Evasion) is very, very comfortable (as NB from blur, as DK from Hist Bark or MA Evasion ability)

On topic
If you do above, it still makes sense to put at least for the minor pieces Sturdy on it, and for the bigger pieces I would still recommend it !
Because you will have less pressure to use block Jewelry enchants and can use them for Magicka cost saving

Depending on the kind of fight you can now swap between several Jewelry options:

against many mobs hitting you: more block cost saving Jewelry
against one or few mobs/boss: more Magicka cost reduction for more utility support to your group
against one or few mobs when SOLO: more Magicka cost reduction or even Spell Damage for casting more and stronger abilities.

Peekachu99 · August 2016

Personally, I find permablock tanks are boring as watching paint dry to play. You have almost no options outside of group content and your TTK (time to kill) is total crap. Shadow Ward, well every CP investment, tends to have steeply diminishing returns after a 50 pt investment. Even worse after 75--so it's good you stop there but even still a bit of a waste. Those 25 points could be better spent in actual ability cost reduction or in buffing regen.

Really there are much more interesting tanking builds once you're comfortable with the basics of threat control, mitigation and CC. With decent sustain you can use bone shield (morphed for damage) or the Blazing Shield (class dependant, obviously). That provides active mitigation, rather than passive. Someone mentioned Hajeko runes, and tri builds are tremendous fun once you're at CP cap and can play around with points.

The meta around tanking is quite fluid. Only hardy and elemental defender, which no one seems to have mentioned, are the obvious and clear "must haves".

UltimaJoe777 · August 2016

Peekachu99 wrote: »

Personally, I find permablock tanks are boring as watching paint dry to play. You have almost no options outside of group content and your TTK (time to kill) is total crap. Shadow Ward, well every CP investment, tends to have steeply diminishing returns after a 50 pt investment. Even worse after 75--so it's good you stop there but even still a bit of a waste. Those 25 points could be better spent in actual ability cost reduction or in buffing regen.

Really there are much more interesting tanking builds once you're comfortable with the basics of threat control, mitigation and CC. With decent sustain you can use bone shield (morphed for damage) or the Blazing Shield (class dependant, obviously). That provides active mitigation, rather than passive. Someone mentioned Hajeko runes, and tri builds are tremendous fun once you're at CP cap and can play around with points.

The meta around tanking is quite fluid. Only hardy and elemental defender, which no one seems to have mentioned, are the obvious and clear "must haves".

As FrostFallFox pointed out I honestly could've gone for 100 Shadow Ward myself but did not because 75 is plenty and worth it for Treasure Hunter, as well as how much block cost reduction you get. Also I can totally understand how people can find tanks boring and for sure my tank, as a pure health build, can take hits like a boss but takes a good while to dish them out. I'm fine with this though, and still manage to get by.

The enjoyment I get out of using my tank comes from how easily he can take hits from tough enemies

Sometimes it's a little TOO easy though...