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Tank Traits for Shield and Other Pieces

kylewwefan
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I’ve finally got an abundance of tranny stones and getting down to other toons gear. My tank is the worst offender with a dozen different armor combos and traits all over the place.

I like infused on the big pieces to get the most from Tristat enchants and sturdy on the small, though there may be good reasoning on all sturdy I dont know?

So now that we can change things around, is there an actual BiS for tank gear traits?

  • Apache_Kid
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    You can do infused on big pieces if you want as long as you go sturdy on every other piece. Shield-play enchantments on jewelry will help. I run infused on both weapons as well with crusher enchant on front-bar and weakening enchantment on other bar. I'm pretty sure that's meta or close to it at this point
  • Asardes
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    Sturdy on small pieces (waist, shoulders, hands, feet), infused on big ones (chest, legs, head, shield) with glyphs of prismatic defense on everything. On my DK I stayed with divines, since I have high magicka recovery and a lot of multipliers that do add up, and DK has a skill that converts excess magicka back into stamina if needed, and also lets me cast other skills. But sturdy would work best on most builds, especially when learning, and not knowing exactly when to open up - blocking for longer gives you a bigger margin of error.

    Weapons both infused, crusher enchant on front bar, weakening on back bar, and shield play enchantment on jewelry - those do reduce your block cost more than having sturdy, especially if you have already a lot of CP in Shadow Ward star. I usually put at least 48 there regardless of char, since even non-tanks need to block a lot in some trials.
    Edited by Asardes on December 19, 2017 3:40PM
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  • kylewwefan
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    I have some older stuff with reinforced or nirnhoned I’m looking into retraining. It sucks deconstructing legendary gears. Also rough trying to gear out 10 different toons.
  • Asardes
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    Nirnhoned and Reinforced are not necessary if wearing 5p of heavy armor since you are most likely capped on spell resistance, especially as DK or Templar even without those traits. Physical resistance is less important, due to the fact most physical attacks are blockable, and most non-blockable damage in trials and dungeons is magic or elemental.
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    Tharkul gro-Shug | 50 Orc Dragonknight | DC AR 4 |
    Ushruka gra-Lhurgash | 50 Orc Sorcerer | AD AR 4 |
    Cienwen ferch Llywelyn | 50 Breton Nightblade | DC AR 4 |
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  • amasuriel
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    Assuming you have
    - 55 in shadow ward
    - running sword and shield with all passives,
    - legendary block cost reduction jewelry x3
    - No Defensive Posture

    The difference between 4 legendary sturdy and 8 legendary sturdy (because don't forget your shield) is ~325 stam per block vs ~148, which can tick be charged every .25 seconds now because ZOS hates PvE tanking.

    4 Legendary with Defensive Posture is ~298 if you are curious, this is why defensive posture isn't very good unless you are actually using it for projectiles.

    So YMMV depending on how much you hold block, how often you get hit while blocking, especially in big group pulls and the fight. Some boss fights you only get hit once per second or two for big damage, so the block cost isn't relevant, some you are going to want as much stam savings as you can.

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