Craft Hundings Rage in 5 Heavy instead of Medium. You get a damage set with the bonuses of the Heavy Armor passives. Then combine that with another damage set in weapons and jewelry and there you are, a more "Tanky" damage dealer.

My overland Tank just uses dps or damage proc sets. Sure he is a bit slower, but its a tank. I wanted to have a tank

My tank has only put 4 points onto health and the rest to either magicka or stamina depending on the build.

That way, even if I bring one set of dps gear, I can do overland and still have the stats for it. Really, all you need is the five pc bonus from any dps crafted or overland gear. You can always change the food bonus you want and the weapon of choice ( or that is your off hand weapon ).

Never stopped me from doing overland anything really.

All I know is this: when a tank shows up at a world boss, it's a wonderful sight.

sekou_trayvond wrote: »

All I know is this: when a tank shows up at a world boss, it's a wonderful sight.

Each time I show up at a WB with my tanking spec there's nobody around and I have to switch back to my DD spec.

r3turn2s3nd3r wrote: »

Just craft some stam dps sets (hundings / etc) and switch when you do overland content. You should have more than enough damage for overland.

This, now use stamina + stam regen food.

Kombinator wrote: »

r3turn2s3nd3r wrote: »

Just craft some stam dps sets (hundings / etc) and switch when you do overland content. You should have more than enough damage for overland.

Well it costs 14 slot in inventory to carry around, or forced to go into bank. Inventory is small as it is i think.

yes that is the price to pay. Even as DD (magsorc). I farm worldbosses in Elsweyr and Summerset. On xbox EU, you rarely have groups as player population is decreasing, so you depend on solo or dual-team play.
You just can win this challenge, if you have 2 or 3 different sets of armor, depending on the type of enemy.
E.g. for queen of the reef you might go for heavy + iceheart (before the nerf), as heavy restores a lot of magicka using a lightning staff attack. The AOE of the staff + crystal blast clears out the many small ads (mudcrabs) quickly.

For Graveld you might prefer light armor + slimecraw, as you need high burst damage to quickly burn him down in the last round when he has below 25% health, to avoid that too many ads spawn (salamanders).

These are just examples, depending on class/race/skills/cp other armor combinations can be better.

For reference:

https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/en/discussion/370986/buffing-up-the-leeching-bahrahas-curse-build

I tried using Burning Spellweave on my DK tank for overworld stuff, but I switched to this and it's pretty great. Advantages:

- Don't have to swap around attributes (or mundus, really) for overworld vs. trials
- Probably don't have to swap CP either most of the time (blue CP is what makes this build work, and blue CP is a bit of a toss-up for tanks).
- Leeching and Bahraha's Curse are useful sets for tanks anyway (situational...like every other set)

The only truly extra equipment I'm carrying around to make this work is a Grothdarr helm + shoulders and a Bahraha's Curse fire staff. Enemies die and I really, really don't.

I'm sure it would do more damage if I went 5 light, but I went 5 heavy to avoid carrying around more gear, and it's still so much better than trying to actively kill things as a tank.

Edit: in case you care, the main skills I use are wall of elements, soul trap, engulfing flames, whip. Half of which a tank probably has anyway.

Dk argo tank w/ leeching plate, bahara’s curse, and monster of choice (grothdar/chudan are good). Tanks fine and you can afk kill most overland stuff.

I have a Tankplar that I call my Abrams. S&b front all tanking skills. Destro back bar that changes from group to solo play. In a group setting I use a frost staff and add the undaunted taunt to the bar. When I solo, I change to an infused flame staff with a lightning enchant and swap my monster set to Ilambris. I drop the taunt in favor a a destro damage skill. I can solo normal dungeons and world bosses when set up for damage and can tank vet dungeons when set up for group.

Step 1) Craft hundings/new moon. Get VO or briarheart to compliment it. Whatever monster set or crafted 2 piece with stam/wpn damage for head/shoulders.

Step 2) Rank 2h and bow and dw.

Rally from 2h line for a heal plus any self heals such as crit surge, dragon blood, mender/sacrifice, spores, repentance/ritual etc

Vigor is a game changer and can be attained very easily in a couple of hours running with a zerg in pvp. If you hate pvp and cant bare to participate that is on you. Its a small sacrifice for such an outstanding stamina heal.

With 2h or dw and bow you in medium armour with dubious drink you will have plenty of regen, speed, resistance, damage and stamina to wreck overland stuff.

You can leave CP optimised for tanking. Just change your gear and skill bars and overland will be much faster.

Eg

2 piece bloodspawn/velidreth, 5 piece briarheart, 5 piece hundings rage.

2h Bar 1: Brawler, dizzy swing, rally, reverse slice, class skill, class ultimate

Dw Bar 1: steel torado, blood craze, quick/deadly cloak, class skill, class skill, class ultimate

Bar 2: endless hail, posion injection/magnum shot, class skill, class skill, class skill/vigor, class ultimate.


Thats just one variation of a very simple setup to switch tank to for overland questing and solo stuff.

Basically if you have stamina oriented crafted/overland armour, melee and bow with an aoe damage skill, a single target damage skill, a cc, a resistance skill, a heal you will be golden.

You should be able to get away with just having an extra 5 pieces to change into when you want more DPS If you are primarily a tank. That should handle most overland stuff efficiently.

IMHO