Sword & Shield

The SnS is the best all round tanking weapon giving your team a 10% empower boost through leadership while being able to give yourself massive damage reduction and apply massive buffs & de buffs.

Attributes

300 Con allows us to have Grit on Heavy Attacks which is very important While giving 300-350 STR for good damage output.

Easy Content like m1s and m2s you can easily drop con as you feel comfortable with. with higher level content you can adjust con as your team requires but do remember the tank should be the last player to min max.

Armor & Jewelry Perks

Perks in order of Importance, don’t stress about gearscore as you’re leveling , low gearscore with good perks beats high gearscore with bad perks.

Heavy Armor is always best for learning, for easy content like m1 and m2 you can go light while learning. Light tanking is fun and good for high mobility but does have its limitations.

Click the links below to see more specific armor and jewelry recommendations.

Armor

  • Enchanted Ward

  • Refreshing

  • 5x Slash Conditioning

  • Health

Amulet

  • Protection

  • Health

  • Empowered/ Divine/ Refreshing

Ring

  • Hearty

  • Leeching

  • Keen Awareness

Earring

  • Refreshing

  • Regenerating

  • Despised

Rotations

  • Open with offhand ccs/ de buffs

  • Pop Stone form

  • Heavy Attack

  • Whirling Blade

  • Taunt Stragglers with Defenders Resolve

  • Upheaval for Cooldowns

  • Chain Heavy attacks into light attack chain

  • Use Abilities on cooldown

  • Use offhand Abilities and stoneform as needed

Weapons

Butcher is generally your best option for tanking due to its high damage and Dots helping you keep agro and charge your heart rune quickly. If you’re not running butcher then look at running a sword with refreshing move & a damage con like enchanted or trenchant rend, for your Shield options Check out HERE

Offhand Options

All Tank Builds are Viable with each other as an offhand, hammer is standard for mobs though.

Hammer SnS Flail Rapier Great Sword Hatchet