warden tanks

Lynx7386 · March 2018

Just curious about what other warden tanks are running for morphs on a few abilities.

arctic wind
Do you run polar wind for the ally heal or arctic blast for the damage? Personally I prefer blast, given the extra chance to chill enemies and immobilize in conjunction with blockade of frost.

living vines
Do you prefer leeching or living trellis? I've been running trellis for the extra heal at the end just for an additional resource return tick, but I'm curious if the lifesteal heals count as "green balance" healing or not.

frost cloak
My go to is ice fortress, but I can see how expansive might have its uses for team support.

Silver_Strider · March 2018

Blast
Leeching
Expansive

Ally heal has such a small radius, it might as well require you be on top of your ally for them to even get the heal. Blast at least helps proc chilled

Idk if the health steal restores resources via the passive but end result is more healing for less magic so I'll take it over Trellis

I prefer Team Support over the Minor Protection. Sure, 8% sounds nice and is in some situations but mechanics nowadays are either I survive or OHKOs that the protection seems wasted.

Nidro · March 2018

i always use leeching vines,
and if i use the "wind" heal i use the arctic blast Morph, so i can proc lifesteal on myself passively

Nidro · March 2018

As far as i know expansive frost cloak was bugged a while ago, havent tested if ist fixed yet.
IF you bar swapped the buff was gone until u went back to the bar u activated it.
So i always used Ice Fortress, nevertheless expansive frost cloak would help the Team much more if it works properly

KingShocker · March 2018

Silver_Strider wrote: »

Ally heal has such a small radius, it might as well require you be on top of your ally for them to even get the heal. Blast at least helps proc chilled

I said the same thing. half the fights in this game need the tank to pull stuff away from the group. You risk killing the ally you're trying to heal if you have a boss with a cleave attack taunted (which many dungeon/trial bosses have)

using it in PVP sounds frustrating. I can only imagine having to sprint to melee range of an ally to heal them or them not getting the heal because they're just barely outside of the radius and you don't know for sure because there are no visual indicators of the skills radius.

Lightspeedflashb14_ESO · March 2018

Polar wind. More then once has this saved a teammate who was ressing another. Mine crots for 10k+.

Leaching vines. The resourse return on the passive only works when you heal an ally, so it won't be procing as much as you would think. The minor lifesteal does not count as a green balance ability.

Ice fortress. Because if you are near more then 6 teammates, you are NOT guaranteed the major buffs, you get nothing sometimes. And 8% damage reduction is nice.

munster1404 · March 2018

I prefer Living Trellis. However I wish the ability is redesigned in such a way that the vines embrace both the caster and the lowest health ally. There were so many occasions when I needed the self heal as a DD or tank and my ally "stole" my vines.