okay thanks I'l get those

White wabbit wrote: »

Boundless storm , dark deal and your clan fear are really only the sorc skills you need . This was my favourite tank to play on after my 2 warden tanks

From the class skills, in addition to those mentioned above, I 'd also add the restraining prison (it's a nice CC for big mob packs in dungeons), and also bound aegis (for harder hitting vet DLC bosses and for trials). If it's a fight where nothing hits too hard, or the boss is semi-tauntable, so you don't have a lot to do, you can add more dps skills, like frags, mage's wrath, or liquid lightning to help with damage, but that depends on your magicka pool (though you can do a coordination of equlibrium->dark deal with sorcs as well for never ending sustain, but usually there's no slot space). If dps is too low where warhorn won't yield too much benefit, you can slot the atro, and also negate--it might not be an intuitive choice but it works a treat for certain fights (especially with slow groups) like for eg., the mob pack bosses and the incineration beetles in Blessed Crucible comes to mind, or for dangerous add packs--it's a really fun skill for a tank, imo!

Mean that the dark deal skill is a channel and you drop block when you using it, so the endless sustain saying doesnt really apply for situations where youre in combat and need to protect yourself

dragonyte1 wrote: »

I am going to try out the tanking or heal as my main role. Sorc tank got me bit interested so I decide to level it up and build it.

Have you got any tips on which abilities to get for a basic sorc tank build that I can do? I plan to use eternal vigor and some
other set I can use for bit of dps increase to balance it out. I do have a self heal via clanfear I use if I need it. can you tell me
what I need to get? my sorc is at lvl 11 right now and I am questing to 50.

You can tank the low level normal dungeons at level 10 and I'd suggest you do so if you've got a guild group you can run with. It's both a good way to learn the ropes and to level up with the daily random normal (it will only give you the easy dungeons at your level). You'll also have a queue of high level guild DPS and healers wanting to run with you so they can get their 10 transmute crystals on an easy run. If you jump in at level 50 and suddenly find yourself tanking a harder DLC dungeon it'll be a rough ride. Another consideration for this is armour sets. Most of the best tank sets are dungeon sets. Ebon is the defacto generic tank set and you'll acquire it doing the randoms, so you might as well begin acquiring it for the stickerbook early. To get going there are some decent craftable tank sets like fortified brass you can either craft or get someone to craft for you.

If you are just tanking then DPS should not be a consideration in a group. It's not your job. For a more hybrid build or when you know you can DPS as well then there are a bunch of skills that become relevant including some fighters guild skills for stamina and mages guild ones for magicka. Likewise with a reasonable healer you probably don't need any self heals on the bars, although with a pug group it's probably good to have.

For pure tank the other one that can be really useful is the psijic skill line. That gives you an additional damage shield passive triggered by blocking providing you have a psijic skill slotted and a very handy ultimate (undo) that puts your stats and position back where you were 4 seconds before which you can slot as the front bar ultimate for use in emergencies and for the block passive.

Ye as a tank you def want dark deal, i meant besides just using the skill, you also wanna learn to deal with it to avoid bad situations. For me personally dark deal is something to provide buff to group from the passives, not for sustain. The time i usually have for the skill is enough to land a heavy attack, and the HA i can stop whenever, where bad timed dd may bring you in a situation being 1-shoted. Streak i know ppl like to use it as off tanking vAS+2. Thats my tips