Nord Tank HMS to 30/20/20

parkham · February 2017

I've been here about 4 months and finally decided to try dungeons. I put together a Nord DragonKnight Stamina Tank. So far it's been great fun and I think I'm actually better at tanking then anything else. Getting a dungeon in under a minute everytime is awesome too.

I'm using a guide from Deltia as a reference. My tank is currently level 140. Deltia recommends having Health 30k / Magicka 20k / Stamina 20k. I can't reach the Magicka & Stamina numbers even when scaling into the dungeon and food. Any advice on how to help reach those numbers? Is there a food that bumps all three stats maybe as well? Thanks.

GilGalad · February 2017

There is purple food that boosts all stats by approx 3.5k. But even if you wear exactly the same gear you will have lower stats, since every spend champion points boosts your max stats by up to 20% at CP 600. So you will have more than 10% less ressources than a CP capped character.

parkham · February 2017

Thanks for feedback. What you're saying is that in order to get to the 30/20/20 benchmark, my Champion level must be quite a bit higher than 160, right?

It's not that I * have * to reach those numbers. I've only died a couple of times out of the I & II dungeons I've been in. I just wanted to see what I needed to do to get there. If bumping CP up higher is what it takes, that's cool.

Asardes · February 2017

I use a full stamina build with 5 Ebon + 5 Tava's + 2 Bloodspawn / 2 Lord Warden. My base health is high enough - almost 28K because I have full undaunted & heavy armor passives, tri-stat glyphs on everything and high raw stats from full CP. I only need to boost my maximum magicka and magicka recovery with Ghastly Eye Bowl drink. With Atronach mundus, properly allocated CP, and also bonuses from LA - I have light sash for undaunted bonus - and AvA Support passives - I slot Barrier on my front bar - I can boost my recovery to about 1.8K. I can talon and chain everything, drop cinder storm and hit ingenous shields every 5-6 for more ult gain and group safety.

But that's an end game build. Up to about ~CP300 I went as a hybrid build, with stat points equally spread. CP150-160 materials and Hakeijos were very rare and expensive back then (about 5x what they are today) so it took some time before I could actually afford that CP160 gold gear, with tri-enchants. At your level you should probably stick to CP160 purple crafted gear - even if you are just CP140 those CP really pile up fast so you should be there within 3 days or so. Try do add health glyphs on that until you reach about 27K health with food, then put magicka and stamina glyphs as you see fit. 20K stamina or so should be enough so if you are there top magicka instead. Atronach is pretty good for magicka recovery.

parkham · February 2017

Thanks for the feedback. I will keep all that in mind. What's a good online character builder?

I have to work on the Undaunted passives and I just realized not too long ago where to get materials for tri-stat glyphs. That's down the road as I just started intro quest in Cyrodiil (gotta get that Alliance skill line going!!)

Tanking has been fun. For some reason keeping aggro on some bosses is difficult (not sure why). I definitely stay busy trying to keep the enemies resistances down and them taunted on me.

On another note - My friend just went over CP160. I was in for a shock when I tried to craft CP160 armor! It looks like the material requirements are 10x?

Autolycus · February 2017

Undaunted passives and a high CP count will help you achieve those max resource thresholds, if you haven't reached that point yet.