Table of Contents
Introduction
Equipment Setups
Equipment
Stat Points
Setup Guide
Having a high maximum health is not only good to survive some damage spike as a tank, but gives also extra base statistics with Vital Force . Health regen is added to make DaVinci's Courage more effective, but if other means of healing are available feel free to swap for mana or defense.
The Plate of the Field General and the Sabatons of the Field General give an extra 150 of heavy attack. The phantom wolf set items provide extra 18 bonus damage, but if the Phantom Wolf Mask is too expensive, the Divine Justiciar Mask will suffice. Bracers of the Primal King provide another 13 of bonus damage.
Change evasion / endurance freely, the build isn't based on either.
Stun chance is added for some basic PvP viability and extra safety in using stunning blow in crucial situations, but feel free to swap with extra defense, cooldown or buff/debuff duration.
Skill Setups
Skills
Setup Guide
Main target of the build is to activate Spectrum of Agony as much as possible, spreading damage between nearby mobs and applying bonus damage to each hit of devastating tornado and Spectrum of Agony.. Additionally, get heavy attacks on Valliant Brawl and Guilliottine Blade to make them AoE.
The skills are orientated to:
- Burn groups of mobs down as fast as possible.
- Generate aggro both through aggro skills and high direceted damage.
- Contribute to boss burn down.
- Have additional mobility and control of the battlefield.
Passive vital force uses the high health for increased damage. Raging Frenzy help burn down mobs. Resilient Mind and Victor Morale helps sustaining the high demands for mana of this build and provide additional healing. The defense skill from S&S is the primary healing source, with Da Vinci Morale and health regen being the secondary (but feel free to swap with great sword's if the run is easy).
If more protection is necessary, swap Stunning Blow with Immortal Pride for additional survivability (exp before boss fights or difficult mob sections).
Weapon Mastery - Sword & Shield
Weapon Mastery - Greatsword
Skill Rotations
Rotation
Explaination
Rotation
Explaination
Rotation
Explaination
Weapon Specialization
Artifacts
Skill Upgrade Priority
Food & Potions
Guardians
Guardians
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Vampire Slayer Ezekiel
Explaination
As this tank build is unbalanced towards offence more than defence, the extra 400 defence of this guardian are useful to offset the lack of the 2 main tank protective skills (Stalwart Bastion and Immortal Pride).
Guide
This build is based on the concept "Offence is the best defence". Hitting hard while being able to take a reasonable amount of punishment rather than hitting soft but being un-killable.
Heavy attacks and Bonus damage are crucial to this build: Heavy attack is important to activate the AoE damage of valliant brawl and guilliottine blade, while the bonus damage multiplies the damage generated by provoking roar's passive (spectrum of agony) when spread by defensive barrier and devastating tornado.
While missing some of the utilities usually offered by usual tanks in a party, it offsets this lack by offering a noticeable increase to the damage output in both mobs and boss sections, while still providing enough survivability and aggro for a competent tank to perform its main job of taking the damage away from the main DDs.
On the other hand, both in solo farming and in mob-heavy dungeons, this build melts mobs with the same speed as many high hitting DDs, while offering higher survivability and tankiness.