Hi maybe this will be helpful

Magicka necro
Heavy armor
Frost staff
Block cost reduction glyphs
Blood lords embrace chest
Desert rose staff and jewellery
İronblood set 5 piece
1 piece monster or trainee
İmmovable pots and skill
Healing skills
Vampire stage 3
Mist form for escapes

Desert rose and bloodlord will provide more then enıugh magicka while blocking…

WaywardArgonian wrote: »

Larcomar wrote: »

I thought they'd nerfed harbingers and the main perma block type set ups but came across one last week. Took an age to get him down.

Just commenting specifically on this, Harbinger received a nerf in its damage output, so while they might still be hard to take down, they're not out there two-shotting entire zergs by just holding block, which is what they were being used for a few patches ago. So if your main priority is to not die (rather than killing everyone), it might still be an option.

Is it on live or PTS? Which patchnote?

Harbinger permablock block builds is what I use when I'm taking my pve tank to earn some cyro reward tiers. It is argonian DK, not necro tho. Not a vampire, but that would help.

I've been experimenting with things all the time, here is the list of things that I tried and liked/disliked. Not everything was tried this patch, or even last patch, so some things might have changed:

- Harbinger definitely hits for less after set scaling changes. Might be different with goliath, I don't know.
- Impen armor and infused block cost enchants worked best for me
- Sturdy is not recommended with block cost enchants, they stack not in your favor. And you will get feared eventually, so rather have some passive defense.
- Battalion defender is really good (unless you are grouped and groupmate decides to walk into range)
- Didn't like Crest as alternative
- Defending Yokeda is pretty decent in very niche circumstances, like "moderate amount of melee enemies around you". Too little/too much/ranged and it falls short. Fun when it works, but it mostly does not.
- Alternating between SnB and Frost staff felt better than using only one
- On more frost oriented builds bloodlord and/or asylum SnB backbar are very decent
- Keeping up immovable skill all the time helps a ton, as well as immovability pots.
- Bloodspawn hands down best monster set choice. Stonekeep and Enginge Guardian sound great on paper, but ulti is my everything and additional resistances are welcome
- I tried swarm mother (necros got skill for that anyway) too, in combination with frozen watcher. It was fun to troll ranged squishies, but otherwise it was pretty bad combo. I still keep that for MYM BGs, when everyone is ranged squishy
- Zoal the Ever-Wakeful is a fun alternative monster set when paired with auto-break free CP star. The moment you are hard CC'd, everyone else is too
- Glorgoloch the Destroyer. It should be THE set for permablock build, but I did not like that at all. I still want to move a little here and there
- Harbinger + radiant bastion.... uh... don't do that
- You can meditate during SnB ulti
- Might drop altar at start, harbinger damage heals you

That is what I could remember for the moment.

Necro and Warden will benefit from Battalion defender and leeching plate. Get some penetration and leeching heal ticks will be bigger. Without pen, the heal ticks are like 150-200, not enough to keep up against dots. Nothing lives forever in Cyro. If 30 Magdk’s put dots on you, yeah you will eventually melt. But I know for a fact leeching is one of those sets that will allow you to face tank 20-30 people for a whole minute and it can outheal a cold fire dot. It’s kind of buggy too, I don’t know if the leeching poison can be cleansed or maybe server delay but sometimes the heals stop working.

DK is really the ultimate tank class in pve and PvP. Green blood is op. This is why those DK perma block tanks in Cyro are running around with ulti-gen sets instead of sustain sets.

Larcomar wrote: »

or indeed you can't break free or even block - it's pointless.

If you are facing big zerg they will kill you during 1 GCD of stun. That's why Immovable is BiS - you get 6s of stun immune for the same cost as if you were breaking, and now you don't have that 1s of vulnerability AND increase the damage blocked so significantly that with new CPs you hit the cap of 80% mitigation - that is, block 90% of incoming damage.