Why are you using a staff? I'd recommend using 1h + shield on both bars.

xiZeroPointix wrote: »

I suggested light armor brass in another forum post for dk because some guildies and I run a few sorc tanks that use rattlecage heavy. Prior to clockwork city when the wrath passive was a thing. We could tank and once the wrath stacks were up have 100% sorcery and brutality up from rattle and have 4500 spell damage. With crit surge running we were pulling very nice dps and full health bar while doing damage while tanking which got us many no death speed runs. Since that is gone..we have switched to light fortified with either alkosh, ebon, or beekeeper sword and board. Tri glypgh enchants and asylum resto back bar for the reduced cost. We then have high health, resist, and magicka for days to cast absorb magic or dampen for the huge shields. You loose out on healing recieved and constitution from heavy, but obsidian shiled gives major mending is more than enough to top yourself off. Since we have ligjt armor, we can ditch obsidian and slot a different earthen heart abikity for mending and minir brutality. Dk regen passives have been nerfed and fortified gives us all around good stats for magicka and helps with sustain. Both stam and magicka dks have to rely on magic for survival with the exception of vigor or a 2h backbar for rally. It also allows for a little bit of damage fir tanks that would like to contribute a little bit. Now the set is selfish meaning u loose some group utility on your main 5pc, but is very viable. You get 10% reduced spell cost, 20%mag recovery and increased spell resist which is the majority of the damage dealt in pve. We are vampires so magic is a non issue combined with undeath passive. With light champion back bar which is very cheap ult cost 100. Your group and yourself will be very hard to kill and high sustain from casting a cheap ult. With bloodspawn this ult will be up very very often. Since we have a high magicka pool we run max health max stam bi stat food to block those heavy hits. If in trouble we have access to very large shields and the asylum resto gives us further reduced cost to cast another shield or heal up with blessing of protection. Most dks die because they run out of magicka. In light this a non issue. This is not meta whatsoever and will change the game for tanking. Since we have resto back bar we will slot lights champion 100 ulti cost and you get increased crit damage to your teams dps along with major protection reducing incoming damage to 30%. A dk tank can keep this up almost 100% and is better than standard in my opinion. Then we will have force siphon to apply lifesteal to the enemy for 600 heal per second which is an effective 1200 health recovery for 20 seconds and since you cast it the healing has an extra 150% bonus healing taken to urself and heals your group. It will also give u magicka steal giving 400 magicka every second, which is an effective 800 mag regen for 20 seconds, then ward ally to give you and the lowest health ally a sheild that gets up too 300% stronger the lower your health is. The third sheild if u have slotted obsidian and dampen is prolly overkill but we are a tank and dying is not an option when you have to rez your whole team fighting earthgore when all 3 minions are up so yeah very strong. Front bar will be ur normal s&b skills so nothing special there. We loose a little bit of utility from the 5 pc but will take a lot of pressure off of yourself and your healer. The less time your healer is healing, the more time he has to drop a destro ulti and keep up concussed via lighting wall in if u have 2 stam dps. Eso is in a great place to break out of the box and try interesting builds. If you build aroundbthe set ur are utilizing a lot of different possibiites arise. Good Luck and bring on the light armor tank meta lol. With that said the hate mail will come!