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  Vajrak

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  ....Well, this is about to be painfully easy to explain, and I'll do it with the class I know best, i.e. Templar.
  
  Note: As a Templar, you are playing what I affectionately refer to as a "Shatter Tank" --- you're whole goal is not to be constantly blocking, but to be triggering off procs for damage/healing while keeping the largest threat with major/minor breach/fracture as much as possible.
  
  Set 1: Seventh Legion Brute (Heavy) x5
  Set 2: Night Terror (Medium) x5 -- Try to get the Unique Jewelry with health buffs
  Set 3 (Monster): Spawn of Mephala (Light/Heavy)
  
  Head, Chest, Legs Infused
  Sword Defending Shield Sturdy
  2h MAUL Defending (Penetration bonus, without huge resistance sacrifice)
  
  Food: Garlic Cod With Potato Crust (Max Health/Stam)
  
  Weapon Enchant: Hardening
  
  Jewelry Enchant: Increase Physical Harm
  
  Attributes: Health 34, Stamina 30
  
  Mundus: The Lady (Resistance)
  
  CP Distribution:
  26 Heavy Armor Focus
  56 Hardy/Elemental Defender/Thick Skinned
  56 Ironclad
  
  27 Physical Weapons Expert
  56 Master-At-Arms (Burning Light and Night Terror effect are Direct Damage)
  56 Precise Strikes/Mighty
  55 Piercing
  
  20 Warlord
  53 Bashing Focus
  75 Tenacity
  100 Shadow Ward
  2 Tumbling
  
  Bar 1: Spiked Bone Shield, Pierce Armor, Power of the Light, Silver Leash, Defensive Posture Ult: Empowering Sweep
  Bar 2: Critical Rush, Brawler, Restoring Focus, Inner Beast, Rally Ult: Empowering Sweep
  
  Use Empowering Sweep for the chance to proc Burning Light passive, the bonus block mitigations from Aedric Spear require an ability, and the 15% minimum damage reduction --- it's low cost, so don't be afraid to spam it whenever it is up.
  
  Heavy Attack weave as often as possible, use Silver Leash to gather mobs to you, Defensive Posture to make mages stun themselves if you haven't pulled them yet, Spiked Bone Shield up often, Power of the Light on the highest threat targets so that they die a bit faster, Block when necessary only. You should be Heavy Attacking whenever you don't have to cast or block, and again --- use Empowering Sweep whenever you can unless you are down to end of a pack and want to open the next group with it. On bosses, use it any time it is available, period.
  
  Keep Rally up as often as possible, on boss fights you can keep up Brawler for the extra DoT+Shield value it gives you (works in trash also, since it gets more shield per mob hit)
  
  Final Stats for the above build:
  Health --- 35k
  Magicka--- 9k
  Stamina --- 25k
  
  Physical Resistance --- 31.5k
  Spell Resistance --- 32.2k
  
  Weapon Damage (full buffed): 3k
  Bash Damage: 4k
  Heavy Attack (Sword/shield): 5.9k
  Heavy Attack (2h): 6.1k (and small AoE)
  Block Mitigation: 64%
  
  Heavy Attacks: Create an AoE field around you for ~1.1k dps poison damage
  Night Terror, when taking damage, poisons the target for ~ 2k damage/1s CD (2.1k dps)
  Brawler: ~500 dps + shield
  Seventh Legion: 10% chance to heal for 1.2k when taking damage (2s CD)
  Spiked Shield: returns 33% of melee damage (direct)
  
  Good health? Check
  Good stamina? Check
  Resource Management (HP/Stamina) with pots and heavy attacks? Check
  Near cap Resistances? Check
  Bonus Mitigations? Check (Block with Aedric Spear passive + Empowering Sweep 15% minimum reduced damage taken)
  Mob Debuff (Breach/Fracture, Major and Minor)? Check
  Self healing? Check (Rally + heal while taking damage)
  Gap-Closer? Check (Critical Rush)
  Ranged Fighting ability? Negative, but you can still taunt with Inner Beast at least.
  
  Optional: Can drop Critical Rush Repentance to keep you topped up during trash fights/add heavy situations OR can replace Defensive Posture with Shielded Assault (which I personally would, it pays to have a gap closer as a tank more often than not, and this isn't a Perma-Block oriented build).
  
  Edit: Also consider slotting Radiant Aura on your backbar instead of Critical Rush -- Magdps will never be angry that you are giving them magic drain along with major/minor breach. IF desired, slot Warhorn on the backbar --- you need the empowering sweep with your shield for the aedric spear passives.
  
  Edit 2: Heavy Attacks should restore ~4k Stamina....that's a pretty good chunk with a 25k max pool, more than the cost of a Bone Shield.
  
  
  
  
  

  Edited by Vajrak on June 29, 2018 6:16AM

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  June 2018

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