Flail & Shield

The Flail is the best protection weapon giving yourself and your team a crazy amount of protection while applying large amount of weaken to the enemies.

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.

This Build plays best in medium armor weight, Magnetic gauntlet for high ability uptime, Attuned leather pants for highest dps and Void Darkplate for most tankiness.

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

Armor

  • Enchanted Ward

  • Refreshing

  • 5x Slash Conditioning

  • Mending Vortex or Bludgeon

  • Health

Amulet

  • Protection

  • Health

  • Empowered/ Divine/ Refreshing

Ring

  • Hearty

  • Leeching

  • Keen Awareness

Earring

  • Refreshing

  • Regenerating

  • Despised

Rotations

  • Open with barrage to position and initial taunt

  • use offhand abilities as required

  • Bludgeon to re taunt and fortify your team

  • Vortex to empower your team

  • Flail damage is very low so you will need to keep high damage and taunt uptime to hold agro, remembering you cannot overlap taunts.

Weapons

Powerstone is the best option for this build with the extra 20% weaken . If you don’t have power stone look for flails with refreshing move , mending vortex or bludgeon and enchanted / distained infliction

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 Rapier Great Sword Hatchet