First, what class are you?

Crit resistance does not apply in pve, only in pvp.

Your stats look good but your stamina recovery is really high. That's not a bad thing, but stamina recovery doesn't work while blocking, so most tanks find other ways to get stamina back instead: nightblades use siphoning attacks, dks use ultimates, etc.

I would try to raise health just a bit. 30k is the recommended hp for tanks, but if you're grouping with random players you never know how on the ball your healer will be, I like to sit at 35k as an added buffer.

For me it will depend on how many CP you have and where they are allocated, but I think 28k stamina is too much and 30k health is too little. You also don't quote your health recovery, your race or class.

I have seen tanks with 50k health but my best runs (with food) at about 37k health and about 20k stamina with somewhere near 2k health recovery and about 1k stamina recovery. I am helped by being at CP cap so that reduces stamina cost if allocated properly.

I use group finder all of the time so my build is pretty self sufficient, as you do not know what sort of healer you are going to get.

Personally I run 5 heavy, 1 light, 1 medium. Provides the biggest stat bonuses. But I also run full prismatic enchants (gives health stamina and magicka) on every slot with infused big pieces and sturdy small ones, so as an imperial my stats are massive...32k health (no attribute points in health), 27k stamina, 20k magicka.

Because I run prismatic enchants I am getting a HUGE amount of extra stats from Undaunted Mettle, not to mention 12% health and 10% stam from imperial and of course the small bonuses from being 313 CP. When I run Lord Warden my spell resist is capped permanently on non-movement fights and phys resists are around 28k which is more than sufficient.

I will say this, you NEED to get rid of anything giving you stam recovery. With stam recovery that high I am assuming you are a woodelf which is honestly fine and should be sufficient. But as a tank, unless you have like 70k health (mixed opinions on this, not suelre how I feel about it) you should be blocking nearly 100% of the time, which makes stamina recovery COMPLETELY USELESS as you do not regen ANY stamina while blocking. Use Shield Play Jewelery enchantments (lowers block cost) instead of stam recovery.

That's about all the advice I can think to give you for now, may come back to post more later!

I am on PCNA if you have any questions, name is Blake6332

EDIT:

Here is a screen shot of the stats without any buffs:

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Here is the screenshot of the buffed resistances with Lord Warden procced:

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Not sure if this kind of thing is of any use to you, but I am providing it nonetheless

EDIT 2: Not sure how to format this post lol, never posted screenshots, but the first attached file is the unbuffed and the buffed is on the right.

Vigarr wrote: »

@Blake6332 thanks for the advice, this gives me something to think about.

I was wrong about my stam recovery, it's 1500 which is still high but as I've said, I wrongly assumed stam would recover slowly while blocking. I also slotted werewolf for that but now I have to rework some things.

Vamp works really well as tank for the Undeath and Magicka Recovery passives. The fire damage is not that bad actually, you'll find yourself laughing at bosses that have exclusive fire damage and still cant touch your health bar (I.E the daedroth boss in Vet Banished Cells 2, I stood in the fire he puts down to keep him still in the spikes while the DPS killed him and that fire field stacks, not to mention his fire breath, never brought me below 80% health).

Id also like to mention I am missing a couple of BiS pieces in the screenshot. I should have sturdy light Lord Warden shoulders and Sturdy ebon gloves. Havent gotten the gloves to drop yet

Hi All,

I am going to hijack this post as i think my question fits in here,

I have a DK magicka Tank,
I run 5 Heavy Seducer all with the prismatic enchant for all 3 stats increase,

What would be good sets to run with this in PVE and PVP?

Johngo0036 wrote: »

Hi All,

I am going to hijack this post as i think my question fits in here,

I have a DK magicka Tank,
I run 5 Heavy Seducer all with the prismatic enchant for all 3 stats increase,

What would be good sets to run with this in PVE and PVP?

I wont make a post telling you how to play or anything, but I will give my opinion. Seducers is a magicka sustain set and is one of the worst crafting sets for a tank.

Being a tank is about supporting your team. Seducers does nothing at all for that. The secret to staying alive as a dk tank is this:

1. Have enough block cost reduction to get your block cost near 600 (sturdy small pieces and block cost enchants will do this)

2. Have enough magicka and magicka recovery to use igneous shields (and utility stuff obviously) to get stam back so you can permanently block.

3. Have enough stam that helping hands gives a decent chunk of stam back per cast (it gives 5%)

4. Have enough health that igneous shields provides a good shield (10kish - so around 30k health) for you, and a decent shield for the group (5k).

A magicka based DK tank is the LEAST effective because they don't have the sustainability and survivability a hybrid/stam dk does.

So to answer your question - you shouldnt need seducers either. This is overstated - but Ebon Armory is one of the best sets in the game for tanking because it puts your health at a treshhold where you dont have to put attribute points in it as a race that gets a health boost, AND it supports your group with 1k health (and it DOES help, have seen so many recoveries in Vet DLC dungeons because of this set), AND allows you to put more into your other stats because you have so much health already.

So if you NEED to use Seducers for whatever reason, go ahead, but it will not be as effective as a more supportive set such as dragonguard which would allow you to provide more warhorns for the group, or Alkosh which would massively increase group DPS. No real reason to run Seducers unless you are just now starting the gear grind.