Ebon armor and Torag's pact is the easiest, meta set up.... Templar tanks often use Swarm Mother monster set because they don't have chains.

Torag's pact increases the power of your crushing and weakening weapon enchantments.

I run a off meta set up for a magplar tank (they were supposed to be a tank healer until morrowind killed it). With Dragongaurd, Spectre's Eye and Shadowrend. I have lots of shields and incidental heals. But without the ability to CC I struggle with pug/dungeon finder groups.... just dying to adds.

Ebon or Plague Doctor for half your gear. PD is easier to get. Thing about Ebon is this, unless your running 12 person trials, it is only nice to have for 4 person groups, not at all necessary or required. Plague, or even Werewolf would do you better for 4 Person Dungeons. If you have not tanked Vet Dungeons, then learn those before you tank trials.

Then Hist Bark or Torugs or Allesia's Bulwark or even Storm Knight could be your second set of gear. Heck anything that increases Resistance and or Ultimate Generation is what your looking for. Resistance more for selfish tanks, ultimate generation for support tanks using Magma Shield or Aggressive Warhorn or Standard (not the shifting one, the other one that buffs group damage) or something like that.

Then for Monster Sets, already listed above.

Ebon Armory and Torug Pact are meta.
You need Infused Torug weapon with Crusher enchant.
When you are ready, farm Alkosh jewelry and 1h+shield.

Head/shoulder Lord Warden or Bloodspawn.

I use warrior-poet instead of plague doctor; it is cheap to buy and works out much the same, except you get physical resistance not increased healing.
When doing vet or harder normal dungeons, I combine it with torags pact. For easier dungeons I combine it with Julianos for additional damage to mobs.

i use 5 meridias blessed armor, 5 ebon, 2 mighty chudan. i can share the build if anyone is interested

For 4-man veteran dungeons i went for a different approach, Paladin style a strong hybrid between tank, dd and healing (through repentance and vigor). Sword and board with 2handler as main bar. I use plague doctor, hundings rage with 3 weapon damage enchants and one piece monster set mostly pirate for resistances. (Next patch you can equip 2 piece monster sets with this setup.) You could wear ravager instead of hundings, i just dont have it and too lazy to buy and upgrade. All gear is sturdy so you can panic block with 2hander too. With blazing sheild and brawler you are having nice 10 to 20k sheild stack depending on the mobs around. Self buffed 4.5k weapon damage along with 30k health, 30k stamina 28k resistances. Stamina regen is 1k but no problem due to the repentance is great in pve.
Some harder boss fights require gear swapping but 95% of all dungeon fights can be done with this build without needing a dedicated healer in group. Having low cp might affect your performance though.

Skills are for 2h bar: Brawler-BitingJabs-ReverseSlice-BlazingShield-Rally- Ulti: Dawnbreaker of Smiting
For sheild bar: PierceArmor-Caltrops(or rune)-Vigor-Repentance-ExtendedRitual(or rune)- Ulti: Rememberance

Pretty selfish tank in terms of buffs but if you consider the amount of damage and healing it provides for group, it is not so selfish tank. And hella fun to play. Wish it could work in pvp too

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If you'll be in a static group, templar is a great tank-healer.

I'm using Ebon (all body), Earthgore, and SPC jewels plus 1-hand/shield and resto/destro as required.

Summerset will be great as she'll be 5-piece SPC front and back bar.

On the pts i am running ebon and the new SPC, Vestments of Orlome. The new set is really quite synergistic with templars. (I am still double S&B).

I use Spectre’s eye, brands of imperium, and lord warden on mine. Works fine, but I’m sure you could use other sets to greater effect on a dedicated tank build. This is just for when I feel like tanking on my healer, and I’m too lazy/cheap to swap out mundus, attributes, cp, etc.