Main Tank Boss Fight / Skills
Earthen Heart
Winter’s Embrace
Siphoning
This build requires you to be a base class of Dragonknight for the mastery scribe buff for shield throw








If a healer stud is running 

put it on front bar where 

You can swap out 

Baron Zaudrus,

Roar of Alkosh
Boss Fight Skills
Boss Fight Champion Points
Warfare
Ironclad (6% Direct Damage Reduction)
Duelist’s Rebuff (6% ST Damage Reduction)
Bulwark (1900 Armor)
Enduring Resolve (Reduces your damage taken by damage over time attacks by 3% per stage)
Fitness
Boundless Vitality (1400 Max Health)
Fortified (1731 Armor)
Bracing Anchor (20% Block Mitigation, 16% Movement Speed Penalty)
Expert Evasion (Get a free roll every 30 seconds)
Boss Fight Set
Gear Slot
Set
Weight/Type
Trait
Enchantment
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Medium
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Light
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Jewelry
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Jewelry
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Jewelry
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Any 1-handed weapon
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Shield
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Ice Staff
Main Tank Trash Clear Monster Sets
You can swap out 

Baron Zaudrus,

Roar of Alkosh in the group feel free to keep
Baron Zaudrus on at all times for that sweet ult build up
Trash Clear Skills
Trash Clear Champion Points
Warfare
Ironclad (6% Direct Damage Reduction)
Duelist’s Rebuff (6% ST Damage Reduction)
Bulwark (1900 Armor)
Enduring Resolve (Reduces your damage taken by damage over time attacks by 3% per stage)
Fitness
Celerity (10% Movement Speed)
Fortified (1731 Armor)
Bracing Anchor (20% Block Mitigation, 16% Movement Speed Penalty)
Expert Evasion (Get a free roll every 30 seconds)
Trash Clear Set
Gear Slot
Set
Weight/Type
Trait
Enchantment
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Medium
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Light
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Heavy
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Jewelry
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Jewelry
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Jewelry
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Any 1-handed weapon
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Shield
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Ice Staff
RACE
Nord is by far the best race for tanking, due to the increased armor from
Rugged and ulti generation from
Stalwart. You can complete any content on any race, you’ll just have to work slightly harder with other races, and you’ll have to adjust your build and get more armor from somewhere else (for example by using
The Lady as your Mundus rather than
The Atronach).
MUNDUS
The best Mundus is
The Atronach which increases your Magicka Recovery by 310 and causes your armor pieces with the Divines trait to increase it by another 28.
If you’re struggling with reaching the armor cap (33,000), then
The Lady can also be a decent choice. It increases your Armor by 2744.
ATTRIBUTES
HEALTH 64
The majority of the time you should put all your points into Health. However you need your Max Stamina to be higher than your Max Magicka, because the
Combustion synergy restores your dominant resource and you want it to be Stamina. Because of that, you might have to put some attribute points into Stamina if you have passives (such as for example the
Gift of Magnus racial) or item set bonuses (such as for example 1-piece bonus of
Encratis’s Behemoth ) that increase your Max Magicka. Put just enough points to make your Max Stamina higher than your Max Magicka, and then put the rest into Health.
FOOD
The best food is
Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch, however it’s extremely expensive so you should use
Jewels of Misrule instead, it provides only slightly lower stats than
Orzorga’s Smoked Bear Haunch while being significantly cheaper.
Other decent foods:
Orzorga’s Red Frothgar – provides more Max Health and Magicka Recovery at the cost of providing no Stamina Recovery at all. Stamina Recovery doesn’t work while blocking so it can be a decent option if you’re permablocking
Bewitched Sugar Skulls – provides maximum resources instead of recoveries, can be decent for fights where you need to block for a very long time during a very specific period but the pressure is non-existent outside of that specific period so you can recuperate stamina by heavy attacking freely, for example the 1st boss in Lucent Citadel trial
Candied Jester’s Coin – provides only Max Stamina and Magicka Recovery, can be decent when you want to reduce your Max Health during a specific phase of a fight. For example, in Cloudrest you can eat it right as the execute phase starts, because Maximum Health becomes a detriment due to the Baneful Mark mechanic
POTIONS

Most of the time you should use Tri-Stat potions (Restore Health, Restore Stamina, Restore Magicka). They’ll greatly improve your sustain. You can craft them by combining
Columbine,
Bugloss and
Mountain’s Flower

There are better potions but they’re expensive. Heroism potions (Heroism, Restore Stamina, Restore Magicka) can provide a 100% uptime on Minor Heroism buff which generates ultimate, but they’re expensive because they’re crafted by combining
Dragon Rheum,
Dragon’s Blood and
Columbine






























