Please Tell Me About Your DK Tank

Colecovision · January 2018

I'm a brand new tank who has looked at theory and meta builds, but now I'm hoping some of you will simply share some info on your battle tested DK tanks. Please include your gear, skill bar, the hardest content you've completed with the build and anything else that you think would help. My focus is pve, but if you're doing well and having fun, please tell me about whatever it is.

Tasear · January 2018

@Bowser

http://tamrielfoundry.com/topic/alanarres-invincible-dk-shieldtank/page/12/

The future looks like plague doctor and green pact maybe some warrior poet for variety. There's also aylied well.

Bowser · January 2018

Build: Lazy Shell
Race: Argonian (master race)
Mundus: Atronach
Food: Tri-stat or Witchmother
Gear Sets: Black Rose, Hist Bark, Mighty Chudan
Enchants: Whatever on the armor, block cost reduction on jewelry.
Traits: All sturdy armor and defending weapon.
CP: Max block cost reduction and magicka regen, max healing done and melee critical.
Front Bar (VMOL): Absorb Magic, Igneous Shields, Green Vigor, Heroic Slash, Pierce Armor, Aggressive War Horn
Front Bar (VAA): Eruption, Igneous Shields, Green Vigor, Draw Esssence, Inner Fire, Magma Shell
Back Bar: Not required, so play how you want.
Hardest Content Completed: Veteran Maw of Lorkhaj Hard Mode
Ideal Content: Axes in Veteran Aetherian Archive Hard Mode. Just taunt them once and play with by yourself for ten minutes!

pelle412 · January 2018

Build: No idea
Race: Argonian (master race)
Mundus: Atronach
Food: Purple Tri-stat
Gear Sets: Alkosh, Ebon, Lord Warden (typically)
Enchants: Prismatic on armor, crusher on main weapon, weakning on backbar, shield play on jewelry
Traits: Infused chest, helm, legs, sturdy on rest. Infused weapons.
CP: Happy medium on red tree, mag recovery, healing, magicka crit
Front Bar: Chains, Pierce Armor, Hardened Armor, Absorb Magic, Igneous Shield, War Horn
Back Bar: Heroic Slash, Ranged Taunt, GDB, Vigor, <flex slot>, Magma Shell
Hardest Content Completed: vSO, vDSA
Ideal Content: Anything that pushes my limits and makes me a better player.

Asmael · January 2018

Build: No one else wanted to tank
Race: Khajiit (master race)
Mundus: Warrior
Food: Blue max HP / stam good
Gear Sets: Bloodspawn, Tava's favor, 7th Legion, vMA bow backbar
Enchants: Maximum stamina, 3x weapon damage glyphs on jewelry
Traits: All Impenetrable 'cause you gonna wipe (or mostly because I just picked up a PvP setup and tried to make sumthin' out of it
CP: Same as your usual stamina DD one 'cause you lazy
Front Bar: Igneous shield, Vigor, Chains, Pierce armor, Ranged taunt // Spell Wall ('cause you don't have any block cost reduction you scrub)
Back Bar: Endless Hail, Rearming trap, Poison Injection, Venomous Claw, <flex> // Flawless DB ('cause you'll die before you get Warhorn anyway)
Hardest Content Completed: Everything
Ideal Content: None. Who the hell would use that? Well I did Bloodroot Forge HM with that (but heh, you need to be able to permablock apparently). Just blame your healer and move on.
Useless features: About 20k DPS single target, uses Tava but almost never dodge rolls, is fluffy ('cause Khajiit)

VaranisArano · January 2018

MagDK
Dunmer - aka, my first serious character
Food: Purple Tri-stat
Gear Sets: Ebon Armory + Knightmare + Grothdarr on Normal content or easy Vet dungeons/Ebon Armory + Knightmare + Lord Warden for content I think I need max resistances on. I could easily swap Knightmare for something else. I've used Worm's Raiment, Burning Spellweave, Silks of the Sun at times.
Leveling/Training Gear: Whitestrakes Retribution (crafted) instead of Ebon Armory. Whitestrakes gives you a large damage shield at 30% health. Its the perfect training wheels set because once you aren't having the damage shield proc often, you know you can swap to another set. OR Plague Doctor - its basically Ebon Armory but without the group health bonus.
Weapons: One-Hand and Shield, Inferno staff (I can pull out a resto staff for this-is-the-first-time-we've-run-this-dungeon-on-Vet-omg-we-need-an-off-healer woes.)

Front Bar - One Hand & Shield: Deep Breath, Burning Embers, Talons, Pierce Armor, Chains, Ultimate: Dawnbreaker
Back Bar - Inferno Staff: Volatile Armor, Burning Embers, Wall of Elements, Igneous Weapons, Eruption, Ultimate: Standard

DPS: about 4-6K, I can stay alive all day, but it will take me all day to kill the boss
Hardest Content: Overspecced for Normal Dungeons, but you can carry any group of PUGs. Solid set-up for most Vet Dungeons, but I don't have HotR or SotH. Not a trials tank.
Ideal Content: Pugging Random Normal Dungeons. You'll be massively overspecced for them, but you can carry any group. Running Veteran Dungeons with a regular group where your group support won't be wasted. You can carry a group in Normal, but not on Veteran difficulty.

BlanketFort · January 2018

Pretty much cookie-cutter. Nothing special.

Gear:
Torug’s + Ebon + 1pc Chokethorn and Shadowrend
All Prismatic Glyphs
Sturdy on small pieces
Infused on big pieces (Head, Chest, Legs, Shield)
EDIT: 3x Shield Play Enchants

Attributes:
Imperial
17k magicka
38k health
19k stam
1.7k magicka regen
32k spell resist
30k physical resist

CP:
Can’t remember, I’m on the toilet.

Food:
Red Frothgar - Max Health & Mag regen

Front bar S+B, Infused Crusher:
Heroic Slash
Absorb Magic
Green Dragon’s Blood
Pierce Armour
Igneous Shields
Ulti- Shield Discpline

Back bar S+B, Infused Weakening:
Choking Talons
Unrelenting Grip
Inner Rage
Balance
[Flex Spot] -caltrops/purge/echoing Vigor/etc)
Ulti- Warhorn

Other sets I swap out to depending on bosses/content/group composition:
2pc Malubeth/Resilient Yokeda/Dragon

Pros: easy to sustain. Tested the coming block cost increase in vAA and HoTR HM dungeons, it held up and wasn’t really noticeable. Not sure about vHM trials, haven’t tanked one yet.

Cons: Balance is also my source of Major Resistances, caution is required so as not to pre-maturely commit suicide. Can be healer-dependent if desire to spam/overuse Balance isn’t purged from one’s mind.

All veteran dungeons + HM DLC.
For trials, have so far only had the opportunity to tank vHRC and vAA. Slooooooowly getting to the others.

witchdoctor · January 2018

Well, she's an Imperial who has agreed to serve under the Daggerfall Covenant ...

Oh, sorry.

Pretty meta build, frankly. I think its a solid tank, but, to be honest, I have more fun tanking on my NB.