Just had an ice staff of vicious death sharpened drop from rewards for the worthy today. I wonder what I can sell it for next month.

What would u suggest if u decide to go with a sorc and these sets? Race etc

Indead of Blessed armor i'd take Shalks Exoskeleton (5), Shadow Dancer or Amber Plasm (5) and Mighty Chudan (1)

Kneighbors wrote: »

Yea, I bought Blessed Sharpened Ice staff for 3k today. So I imagine the price will be very different after the update.

Not defensive? Thought you wanted a tank. Even though Ice staff is getting some damage reduction, block cost reduction, a taunt, and maim it still is significantly less than shield and sword.

I'd say first try Might Chudan (2), Desert Rose (5), and Wisdom (3) and if you are feeling confident about maintaining your magicka switch Desert Rose with Vampire Cloak (5).

If we are going to even CONSIDER the possibility of Frost Tanking we need to be realistic.

I can honestly only see NBs being decent at Frost Tanking, and I use the term decent as in the only one of the classes to successfully pull off this facade. They can use Piercing Mark in place of Pierce Armor for the Major Fracture/Breech, have a more reliable method of Maim thru Shades (on top of all the extra bonuses via Shadow passives), can be resource juggernauts with SA (especially when coupled with something like Desert Rose), and Heroism isn't necessary when Soul Harvest and Transfer passive can easily fill up your Ultimate for Warhorn usage (Just be careful during bar swapping for the Warhorn Bar)

The biggest loss is that of an extra set bonus, either from a 5 piece or monster set, as well as the added resistances, enchantment and trait bonuses a shield would offer. This alone kills Frost Tanking for me overall but I guess it can be useful for a back bar set up on a tank, if nothing else.

I started a Nord DK under this plan just recently. Storm Knight's Plate and Thunderbug's Carapace.

Basically Frost Staff, Dragonknight spells and armor sets amount to all sorts of going elemental damage types.

Good? Maybe, probably not. Awesome? It better be.

Pirate Skeleton Set - This set was meant for a tank BUT there are several problems with it which includes getting stuck in skeleton form, unable to use any skills during transformation, block getting dropped. So until these problems gets fixed, avoid it.

Meridia's Blessed doesn't work against bosses.

Black Rose looks nice but with 10% chance its better wear this against trash mobs.

Here is a build that i have been working on
https://www.eso-skillfactory.com/en/build/nightblade/nb-frost-staff-tank-update-13-experimental/18550/

Kneighbors wrote: »

Silver_Strider wrote: »

If we are going to even CONSIDER the possibility of Frost Tanking we need to be realistic.

I can honestly only see NBs being decent at Frost Tanking, and I use the term decent as in the only one of the classes to successfully pull off this facade. They can use Piercing Mark in place of Pierce Armor for the Major Fracture/Breech, have a more reliable method of Maim thru Shades (on top of all the extra bonuses via Shadow passives), can be resource juggernauts with SA (especially when coupled with something like Desert Rose), and Heroism isn't necessary when Soul Harvest and Transfer passive can easily fill up your Ultimate for Warhorn usage (Just be careful during bar swapping for the Warhorn Bar)

The biggest loss is that of an extra set bonus, either from a 5 piece or monster set, as well as the added resistances, enchantment and trait bonuses a shield would offer. This alone kills Frost Tanking for me overall but I guess it can be useful for a back bar set up on a tank, if nothing else.

Only because of Major Fracture I'm actually thinking it will be good to have one handed and shield as second weapon. I do actually expect to see alot of people using Ice staves and sword+shield alot.

Back bar 1hand/shield, apply pierce armour, then switch to main bar with froststaff again. Repeat every 12 seconds. That way it could work. I still don't think that stafftanking will be really useful.