Spam Igneous Shields, put more points into Healing received. Tell your healers to stop healing DPS's when only the tanks is getting hit. Make them put down their extended ritual(or other morph) so you can stand in it and for them to try and keep up mutagen/rapid regen and for them to spam healing springs during those channeled sweeps attacks. With what you are running and that you said you already have guard its a healer problem more so than a tank problem, I know for experience that a lot of healers aren't used to this heavy focus on the tank, and for some reason a lot of healers spam healing springs on nothing but the DPS's while they are currently taking NO DAMAGE, and then the Tanks get rekt cause of it.

Side note, obviously don't forget to keep Minor Maim up.

One thing that u can do is use histbark or shuffle, this will proc almost every time he does the sweeps. For your part, cast vigor right before the sweeps and spam shields. Your stam pool might be in trouble though with your stats. Also use tristate pots and consume them while he's doin the sweeps to get an extra heal in.

Or you could reroll Templar tank and be way more survivable. This is my favorite fight to tank.

Hardy is a must for this fight, you want as much mitigation as possible.

You could become a vamp for damage reduction when you fall to 50%.

I do magma shell when he does it but its not always ready, maybe every 2nd or 3rd time, can't remember.

If no magma shell i personally spam igneous shield on the 100 cuts thingy and if I notice I'm low I hit green dragon blood.

I also use hist bark for this fight.

I dunno why both healers aren't getting you in their healing springs, both should be reaching you. Maybe they stopped to pew pew.

Ive had this happen many times when plugging vhrc.

Guild run different.

Oh and absorb magic (morph of defensive posture) helps too.

Guys. why dont i see any of the responses mentioning this (especially you @Woeler )

have someone run Guard (Alliance War Skill) on the tank.

The damage from the warriors 6 hit thousand cuts combo is percentage based. Ive seen a tank with 52k HP drop from it and a tank with 29k HP drop from it which leads me to believe it is a hard mechanic damage is percentage based on the Tanks health. both tanks had full phys resistance hard cap. you seriously have the following options here:

1. Have someone run guard on the MT (usually Off tank or a DPS)
2. Magma Shell on the combo (it will not be up every single time)
3. Dodge the final two hits (so let the first two hits go through, then dodge roll which will avoid dmg for the rest of the combo)

You can have one healer just totally focus on you and you have to call it but thats sooooo inefficient.

like seriously, seeing these responses blaming healers, saying you need 100 in hardy, spamming GDB, and running Absorb Magicka (what is magicka about that attack?!?!) like, its all unnecessary.

Run guard --> Warrior is trivial for tank.

Gnaru wrote: »

@Gaggin i don't think templare have more surv in confront of dk.

Well you say your dk is dying with guard, my templar tank does not without guard, so there is THAT.

OP,

If you are still struggilng here after taking @Woeler advice, try attempting to switch out 5 Plague Doctor for 5 Footman's or 5 Ward or Cyrodiil. Make sure you have Defensive Posture on your bar as well. If you're a DK, you might be able to utilize Ferocious Leap & Igneous Shield spam. If you have no source of evasion, Hit Bark could replace Ebon.

I am of the opinion that dodge rolling will be the best method, but if timing/lag is an issue then you need to gear appropriately to meet the requirements. Point being is that buffing your team is useless if you cannot stay alive. You are a learning tank and your group should be aware that because you are learning, concessions to raid buffs will need to be made to ensure that you can effectively do your job.

Rickter wrote: »

and running Absorb Magicka (what is magicka about that attack?!?!)

This skill also increases the damage you can block by 8%, its multiplicative but it all helps. And if you get hit by the mages you just heal.

its percentage based hard mechanic. literally saw Petros F******g with 52k hp drop to this attack. its a hard mechanic. (this was when the dungeon was first scaled to CP160 so everyone was just finding this out)

running Guard on the MT was the big discovery. It was the big work around. No one should be having problems with Guard on them. I tanked this boss last wednesday with 5 medium armor. 26k phys resistance. 32k hp.

Gnaru wrote: »

3)be sure to have heroic slash (-8% dmg taken) before that, igneus shield before the first hit than--->see point 1, and finally i'm using to gain additional phys resistance stone giant(minor resolve 1320 PS)

i have no more problem, thank you for all tips u gave me.

You can remove stone giant from your rotation, mainly because 1.3K extra resistance is negligible. You will only get about ~2% mitigation before block which translates to less than ~1% extra mitigation while blocking. Additionally the same bonus is received from Combat Prayer skill used by the healer. Assuming the healers stay with the DD pack, casting that skill will also hit the tank which is in front of them. Identical bonuses don't stack so IMO you should drop stone giant and replace with another skill on your main bar.

I use something like that:
Front Bar: Pierce Armor | Heroic Slash | Absorb Magic | Resolving Vigor | Ingenous Shield | U: Replenishing Barrier
Back Bar: Inner Rage | Ring of Preservation | Green Dragon Blood | Shuffle | Volatile Armor | U: Aggressive Warhorn

Gear is:
5 Tava's Favor (heavy chest, medium hands, light waist, shields, swords)
5 Ebon Armory (heavy feet & legs, rings, necklace)
2 Bloodspawn / 2 Lord Warden (none are very useful in this fight, so I will probably swap to 2 Scource Harvester for the extra healing received in future runs)

Traits:
Healthy jewelry - I can also change the neck for an arcane unique piece for a bit more magicka, block cost reduction enchants
Armor: Infused: chest, shields, legs, head and divines: shoulders, waist, feet, hand, prismatic defense enchants (tri-glyph)
Weapons: defending swords

Mundus: atronach

Consumable: Ghastly eye bowl (maximum magicka + magicka recovery)

My stats are: 18K magicka | 27.8K health | 24K stamina | 1.5K magicka recovery | 27.8K phys resist | 30.5K spell resist

I didn't invest any CP in magicka recovery but I can boost that as high as 1.9K though I doubt that's necessary as I spam skills and hardly run out, especially if the healer is also throwing a stray orb at me from time to time and running Worm Cult. I did invest 100 CP in stamina cost reduction (Warlord) and another 100 CP in Tenacity so I can fill my stamina pool fast when I get the chance to do heavy attacks. The red points are 90 in Hardy 90 Elemental Defender 20 Thick Skinned - I actually use that on all my builds since it's pretty well rounded and I don't change it often. Blue points are not that important, but for optimal tank performance you can spec 100 Blessed and 100 Elfborn since you don't do damage anyway.

I keep skills that last around 20s on my back bar to minimize bar swap and the chances catch me when I do that while the skills which last less, and need to be cast more often are placed on my front bar for convenience.

I only use Inner rage as emergency taunt if for some reason I've lost aggro on the boss (ex. I've died and just got ressed while the boss is rampaging). Ring of preservation adds an incoming damage reduction which is sometimes useful to melee DDs that stand near the tank, rather than the tank itself. I only use it sometimes. Green dragon blood adds healh regeneration and healing received. Shuffle basically adds a RNG mitigation which is very good overall, and also procs Tava's Favor when you dodge - the other morph wouldn't have made much sense because I only use 1 piece of medium, for the undaunted mettle, so the extra duration would have been negligible; shuffle is definitely better in PvP for the utility. I picked Volatile Armor since the shield from the other morph is negligible and only lasts 2.5s. Replenishing Barrier is actually very useful, both as an "oh xuth" option to save the group in some situations (ex. healer down) and for the passive from the Support skill line that adds magicka recovery - I actually try to stack as much as possible because most tanking utility skills are magicka, and I recover a bit of stamina by casting ingenous shield often from the helping hands passive. Stamina recovery makes little sense on a tank because it's reduced to 0 while blocking so magicka recovery doubles as such, if you are a DK.

I try to hit ingenous shield every 6s so I maximize ultimate regeneration and keep major mending up. I also try to keep vigor up to maximize healing, especially during the "thousand cuts, like blades in the wind" phase. Absorb Magic is there mostly for the blocking passive but for other boss fights also work as a pretty reliable heal if you cast it right before you are hit by a spell. Pierce armor and heroic slash are up all the time. I try to not over cast them to save resources, and when I cast them I always weave them with heavy attacks for cost refund and even more ultimate generation. Of course you can't be weaving heavy attacks during that sequence, so I will cast those right before it starts - it's pretty predictable. With this setup I can cast Warhorn every 45-50s or so.

Ehehe thank you mate yea a little hilarious situation, i'm agree with you, overall...guard is the way!

Rickter wrote: »

Gnaru wrote: »

Well well i think i wrote a misunderstanding thing, with GUARD i meaning shield up, right mouse click (sorry my english is really bad).

Ha-HA! thats hilarious. So my response was the only one worth a d**n because it was literally the right answer. you needed GUARD from ALLIANCE WAR.

take that 100 points OUT of hardy man, you are wasting your CP. and i dont even use Heroic slash. I know i should but im admitting (when most wont) that its not 100% uptime.

look, just get guard on you. thats it. Stalwart Guard is the popular morph. all you people sitting here trying to tell him how tanking should be done!! hahahahaha acting like tanking is a big science. dude just needed guard - like the rest of the eso population. he can still wear plague doctor, he doesnt need ALL THAT OTHER CRAP.

All that shows is that you can't read and that OP made a typo.

There was no mention of crap, everything everyone said is viable tactics for survival.

Rickter wrote: »

Gnaru wrote: »

Well well i think i wrote a misunderstanding thing, with GUARD i meaning shield up, right mouse click (sorry my english is really bad).

Ha-HA! thats hilarious. So my response was the only one worth a d**n because it was literally the right answer. you needed GUARD from ALLIANCE WAR.

take that 100 points OUT of hardy man, you are wasting your CP. and i dont even use Heroic slash. I know i should but im admitting (when most wont) that its not 100% uptime.

look, just get guard on you. thats it. Stalwart Guard is the popular morph. all you people sitting here trying to tell him how tanking should be done!! hahahahaha acting like tanking is a big science. dude just needed guard - like the rest of the eso population. he can still wear plague doctor, he doesnt need ALL THAT OTHER CRAP.

"I don't even use heroic slash, look mom how cool I am"

"I don't even use heroic slash, why would I get more ultimate and more horns? I just sit here and block, best tank ever"

"I don't even use heroic slash, 15% less damage done by the boss, meh DPS should judge dodge or get more health. I can't kee that skill up anyways. I just block"

Shall I write more or have you realized how utterly dumb your comments make you look? Then again, you are advocating for plague doctor, so you have no clue what you are talking about anyways.

Bad players are not a problem. They can be helped. Idiots with the 12 year old call of duty mentality that give bad advice can't.

Next time post more "hahaha" in caps. I'm sure it helps you make points. Or more "f****" like the cool kid you are.

If dps stacks up correctly then the tank is getting hit by extended ritual, healing springs, orbs, bol, combat prayer. This is why or a good to have a good group to pull off trials and their mechanics.