datgladiatah wrote: »Would Sap Tanking be more efficient with an ice staff instead? While your damage would still get gimped using infused potion cost enchants, you could run more of a mix of health and magicka while not putting anything into stamina and you may be able to keep what made the sap tank strong. I don't know if it was really 1hs that made sap tanking as much as hybrid magicka pools. And you could use siphoning attacks instead of leeching, giving you more ability to spam spells and block. Idk.
LittlePinkDot wrote: »well stamblade has great sustain. Why not some kind of a SnB shield wall tank?
(Which is why the current PTS change to bolstering darkness is completely irrelevant for NB unless it makes it better than horn, which in turn brings balance issues. It should give a DPS buff if ZoS expect DPS to go and collect it. The PTS change is actually a 50% nerf to NB tankiness...)
LittlePinkDot wrote: »well stamblade has great sustain. Why not some kind of a SnB shield wall tank?
Because it's not war horn Shield wall is good, but it's also no block. Some stuff ignores it (mostly from bosses) & can only be blocked by a right click block.
Stamblade has good sustain due to having a rotation that includes light attacks literally every second. It's even better for magblade as they will land more light attacks. Unfortuntely there is no NB tank friendly sustain in their class skills.
Honstly, I think war horn should be brought down a peg or two. It's really far too good and whilst it exists in it's current form, it leaves no place for alternatives. (Which is why the current PTS change to bolstering darkness is completely irrelevant for NB unless it makes it better than horn, which in turn brings balance issues. It should give a DPS buff if ZoS expect DPS to go and collect it. The PTS change is actually a 50% nerf to NB tankiness...)
@LittlePinkDot dark cloak heal is good for any situation you need a chunk of healing quickly. I haven’t touched rally in years so not sure what tooltip values on that look like, but it could potentially be a bigger heal on recast than dark cloak. With a 40k health tank you get about a 4K heal every second with dark cloak. For my stamblade with about 40k stamina I think resolving vigor was ticking for 2.5-3k every second. I’m guessing your build would fall somewhere in between there, but if you’re just using each for emergency heals, vigor becomes a better hot as soon as it ticks for more than 10% if your health each tick, otherwise dark cloak is better, and rally still probably offers the best single tick heal on expiration/recast.
Snb with medium armor is fine for a pve tank in normal dungeons and many vet dungeons as well, you just need to know which hits to dodge instead of block due to having lower resists.
Defile isn’t a useful debuff for pve, so I wouldn’t recommend reverberating bash for that purpose.
LittlePinkDot wrote: »@LittlePinkDot dark cloak heal is good for any situation you need a chunk of healing quickly. I haven’t touched rally in years so not sure what tooltip values on that look like, but it could potentially be a bigger heal on recast than dark cloak. With a 40k health tank you get about a 4K heal every second with dark cloak. For my stamblade with about 40k stamina I think resolving vigor was ticking for 2.5-3k every second. I’m guessing your build would fall somewhere in between there, but if you’re just using each for emergency heals, vigor becomes a better hot as soon as it ticks for more than 10% if your health each tick, otherwise dark cloak is better, and rally still probably offers the best single tick heal on expiration/recast.
Snb with medium armor is fine for a pve tank in normal dungeons and many vet dungeons as well, you just need to know which hits to dodge instead of block due to having lower resists.
Defile isn’t a useful debuff for pve, so I wouldn’t recommend reverberating bash for that purpose.
So you actually put attribute points into health?
I dont have enough epic quality items yet or a monster helm set to know what stats are going to look like when shes actually finished. But right now I have 16k health. Its hard to imagine where Im going to get more health from except from changing enchants on armour from stam to health. But I would fall below 30k stam if I did that.....
Rally is good but I didnt want to be forced to use 2H. Theres something wrong when quite literally every stam character in pvp uses 2H. Trying to go against the grain. Was thinking either mighty Chudan or Bloodspawn to increase resistances.