By support do you mean healer or support tank?

DTAmoral wrote: »

HankTwo wrote: »

By support do you mean healer or support tank?

No, and Yes. Not all supports are healers, or tanks. For example I have a Negate Sorc that just reduces cost of all my stuff so I can throw negates out very quick.

I have come up with a couple builds this morning

Alteration Mastery / Seducer / Earthgore - PurgeCro

Fasalla Guile / Beckoning Steel / Earthgore - DefileDK

True, for mid and large scale PvP there are some very specialized niche support builds. But I guess you alread know how to build for these raid support roles.

Have you tried a synergy support tank yet? Can be pretty neat for small or mid scale. You could try something like:
- Twilight Remedy on one bar --> gives a very nice hot and the minor force crit damage buff to allies that use your synergies
- Potentates or arena set of choice on second bar
- Eternal Vigor heavy armor --> new set, gives very nice bi stat sustain above 50% health, and good health regen below
- A monster set of your choice (Chokethorn perhaps? With the increased proc chance it should be easy to use)

Additionally, the new tri stat cost reduction and sustain glyphs could be pretty nice. If you need more tankyness there is also the option to use armor potions.

Class-wise, warden or DK are obvious choices, but necro could also be interesting, since they should be able to proc twilight remedy on themselves with avid boneyard. Weapon-wise, sword and board with defensive stance on the self defense bar would be good for the very strong block passives. For the twilight remedy bar you could go for frost staff or resto I guess. Skill wise all the good class and undaunted synergies on your twilight remedy bar (obviously) and more focus on self defense skills like a max health scaling heal on the other. AOE CCs and strong debuffs are also always useful to disrupt the enemy team.

Last but not least, what a lot of people do wrong when playing a (support) tank in PvP, imo, is that they build too much into personal survivability. Yes, you will definitely need good survivability, but imo its absolutely useless to be able to face tank 3+ decent damage dealers who focus you head on when you are alone. You will just sacrifice too much group utility for nothing of use for the team.