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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 are based on max gear score as you level just get as close to key break points as you can while having enough con to survive.

Rotations - Butcher

  • Open with offhand ccs/ de buffs

  • Pop Stone form

  • Heavy Attack

  • Shield Rush

  • 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

Void Darkplate , Unmoved and Featherweight

Choose void darkplate when you need raw armor stats , the unmoved when it is vital to hold a boss or mobs still for your team or featherweight if you are feeling spicy and want to do some light tanking , this is great for catacombs , dont be afraid of using blood drinker when extra heals are needed or until you get the grit ring.

Don’t stress about gearscore as you’re leveling , low gearscore with good perks beats high gearscore with bad perks. Ensure

Aim for the following as your general baseline while we wait for the next round of updates:

  • 5× Enchanted Ward II

  • 3× Enchanted Ward

  • 3× Refreshing

  • Gem slots on everything

  • 5× Vicious / Sacred / Leeching (depending on your role)

  • Life Stealer’s Draught

  • 2–4 skill perks tied to your weapon setup

  • Refreshment on Earring

  • 1× Keenly Fortified and Protection on your Amulet

This combination should give a strong mix of mitigation, sustain, and offensive output while staying patch-flexible. Consider it your “safe template” for now.

Offhand Options

All tank builds are viable with each other, I recommend in raids to have large aoe options like sns / flail / great sword and using hammer for boss rend and for mutations when cc is required. I will be updating the other weapons as soon as possible.

Hammer SnS Flail Great Sword Hatchet