Oh damn I saw this video before the Mask for this dungeon was about to drop and loved it! Was trying to find again only to find your other goldmine video on the trifecta run. Both extremely helpful, I should have know it was from the same guy lol
I am new to playing as a tank and I have been looking up guides on how to play tank specifically in those dungeons and trials... Finally!! Thank you for all the tank guides videos I am about to watch them all :))
This isn't something you break free from, so it still hits you and is unblockable. You can, however, use unstoppable pots, and those prevent you from getting crowd controlled, so you don't get hit at all. You can also use the heavy armor skill that does the same thing. That also prevents it. You can actually see me tank this hard mode with 20K health with no group member deaths if you watch my Glass Aegis video ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html. I use unstoppable potions and potion extension glyphs to give me a ton of uptime on the unstoppable buff.
@@irreverentaegis unforunately unstoppable brute's immovability only lasts 6 seconds so it would be hard to keep up 100%. And i dont really like using immovable pots since i might need a tri pot for sustain or heal. Should i just buff up my resistances then? I got major/minor resolve, minor aegis, minor maim, and minor protection on my dk tank. Do you think those are enough? Am I missing anything?
I have several different tanking styles, depending on the character I'm playing on, group comp, and difficulty of the content. I ran a build "make everyone a tank," also called Omni Aegis, that I have a video for, which I played for months, which uses Grave Guardian. You need to be blocking for Grave Guardian to work, so I pretty much trained myself to block... a lot. I also often run a healer in 4 man content, so sustain is never really an issue, so why drop block? However, I also have a build that is an 18k health DPS tank where I almost never block because I need to keep up my DPS rotation. I hit 37K on the 3 million dummy while keeping up taunt the entire time with my typical bar set up used in most Vet DLC dungeons. Getting ready to compile a video showing me tanking every Vet DLC boss with that guy. Anyway, when I record a video, you see the habits I've developed from whatever my latest tank project was, even if they're awful habits that I'd never recommend anyone pick up. It comes with the territory of experimenting with different styles and sets. I appreciate the feedback though. I look to improve my tanking every time I play, so hearing from other people on areas I can improve is always nice. Glad you enjoy my vids!
I keep dying to "grasping void" that's not telegraphed as a heavy and there are no visuals that I can really see before he does this. It hits for about 45K but sort of comes out of the blue. If I just knew he'd do this I can block it or dodge it. But he keeps surprising me.
I'm pretty sure It works like the monster set he drops, Kjalnar's Nightmare. "Damaging an enemy with a Light Attack puts a Bone stack on them for 5 seconds, up to once every 0.5 seconds. At 5 stacks, an undodgeable skeletal hand attacks your enemy after 1 second, knocking them into the air and stunning them for 3 seconds, or dealing 2221 Magic damage if they cannot be stunned." You can just use the heavy armor ability, which grants you CC immunity. You can't get hit by the ability if you have that up. You can also watch my video where I tanked this in LIGHT ARMOR with 21K health running unstoppable potions. ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html
Do you have an idea of the base damage of the boss's light attacks, heavy attacks, abyss, and grasping void? Just want to calculate how many buffs i should keep up.
No idea. The damage used to be way higher because this dungeon was released before CP 2.0. Now you have lots of options to mitigate damage, so you won't need as much protection.
@@irreverentaegis Thanks. It just didnt feel that way the last time i ran it. Am i supposed to block his light attacks? I find that my stamina runs out quickly when im perma blocking. If i have my buffs and debuffs up can i get away with not blocking his light attacks?
@@philipm5043. After you get attacked, heavy attack him. The sword and board heavy attack is super fast, so you'll have plenty of time between his attacks to get off a heavy to refill your stamina. Just time it right. You can probably take a light attack without blocking no problem here, but I haven't specifically tested it. Sustain issues are multifaceted, however, and there are many ways to diagnose and subsequently solve those issues. Hopefully this one suggestion is enough for you.
I've messed around with trying to make an end-game vampire tank but I never like the results. Haven't settled on a build that's up to my standards for getting trifecta achievements.
Yes. We let 1 of our DPS just focus the big add. Crowd control/snare/murder. I just hang out away from everyone and throw down some HOTs to keep my health topped off.
I have a stupid question. I did this dungeon today with my tank, surviving the light attacks were fine if I timed my block perfectly, but I had a gigantic issue with the hands. I took around 46K dmg from it while the boss was under Major, Minor maim and my tank has about 40K health and 50% armour mitigation. I was thinking about shields, but it's almost impossible to anticipate this attack when he does it to you. How are you taking so little damage from it?
I never did this, but if you run "immovable" potions or the skill unstoppable brute, you can actually just block the attack, as you won't get crowd controlled by the hand (which makes you not able to block the damage). Other than that, what are your resistances and CP allocation? I've done this on multiple classes of tank. Make sure all your resistance buffs are active. So minor protection (Psijic Ultimate gives this passively if you don't have a class ability that provides it), major protection (slot revealing flare), major resolve, minor resolve. Then make sure you have any class resistance buffs active, like the ghost on the necro, for example. If you have a tank that uses damage shields, just always keep your health topped off, and always put the shield back up every time it goes down.
@@fredericbrasseur7399 This looks like a PVP build. That's your problem. You're bringing a PVP build to try to get an end game PVE achievement. Your blue CP should mitigate damage, and you have 3 things that are essentially useless. Check this out: thetankclub.com/eso-tank-champion-points/ You are also making this extra hard on your DPS because you aren't doing anything to buff them (your sets are all selfish), which means you need to survive way longer.
@@irreverentaegis Ok, there are things, I agree with, and things I couldn't disagree more. First, yes to survive the burst, the answer probably resides inside the extra mitigation from CP nodes. If I had both CP to reduce damage it would deal deal around 36,8K, which wouldn't be a OS anymore but that would still be 12,8K more than what you are taking in this video footage, which doesn't answer my initial question. Also, I don't really understand why you call my build selfish. Sure I don't bring Minor Courage or other set buffs for the team, but I'm bringing my load of buffs, debuffs, and CC with my skills. And when you play mostly 4man pugs, bringing the initial buffs like Major Sorcery/Brutality/Breach Standard of Might bring the bulk of extra DpS (and it saves a lot of potions for your team). Also, I rather have a massive pull on a single ability and beeing able to follow up with a root and a synergy instead of having an extra minor buff. Honestly, when you say, and I quote : "You are making this extra hard on your DpS" this is honestly just the usual bullocks I hear around the "meta" people in ESO who are running trials on steroids. I could just make a similar strawman instead and say "you are making this extra hard for your Healer", but that's not the point. Do you know, how much DpS minor courage brings to your team on a fully optimized DpS build? Around 3% on average... Which means for every 1min and 3sec you fight, you avoid 3sec of that fight. That "way longer to fight" is a huge hyperbole which I'm tired to hear. Now, if you are speed running with people that know what they are doing, sure it is more effective. But with a group of randos I don't even know, no way I'm gonna give up 1/2 my surviability just so they can have smallest of edge. I'll try with the CP changes next pledge, but regen tanks are pretty good for 4man PVE content. Not having to worry about wasting ICD on heals, and beeing able to focus on Debuffs and Control is very underated. Thank you for your input.
@@fredericbrasseur7399 You're a DK tank and an Argonian. I'm a Necro tank and a Nord. Both of these things mean I have more passive mitigation than you. I also have a ghost, which gives me extra mitigation and keep up minor protection. I also have a healer applying an infused weakening enchant (over twice as strong as your sword and board one- which only gives half the enchant strength and isn't infused. I also got the final dungeon buff (which gives extra mitigation, and extra extra mitigation because I'm a necro because the buffs in this dungeon boost necros more), and I'm wearing, in this video, Eternal Yokeda, which gives Minor Aegis. That's why I don't take a lot of damage. I don't intend the rest of this to be harsh, but I understand it may across as such, so I apologize in advance and hope you are taking this from the perspective of someone trying to learn, not fight with someone on the internet. =] First... you came to me asking for advice because YOU DON'T HAVE A CLEAR. I'm all for theory crafting and having a good discussion (respectful arguments make everyone smarter), but you are arguing as someone WHO DOESN'T HAVE A CLEAR, so what you are doing ISN'T WORKING. You can defend your choices all you want, but until you actually clear the content with your build, your argument won't hold up because you don't have the proof that it is good enough to get the job done. Not only that, but getting a clear is the lowest amount of proof you should bring. Stronger arguments are made when you can get the trifecta achievement with the build, then teach your build to someone else, and then see if they can replicate it. If they can't, your build probably requires too much skill for the common player, and the only reason it works is because YOU PERSONALLY have enough skill to make it work. For example, I run a build called the Glass Aegis. It's a 20K health double ice staff magsorc DPS that I use to tank. I have tanked 100% of the the Vet DLC dungeons with it, but I don't go around telling people they should run it as a tank unless they have a dedicated group looking for an awesome challenge, because it simply isn't viable for a tank of average skill. Second, I call your gear selfish because it is selfish. There is not a single set you are wearing that helps your team. You don't need to pull in enemies in this fight (outside of chains if you are the guy pulling in the skeleton), so why are you wearing Vateshran sword and board? Also regarding your gear, you said your main problem is you keep getting one-shot by the hand. There are two solutions to this- take less damage or increase your health. Alessian gives you health, armor, and health recovery. That actually does help you survive, but if you want to survive better, bring something that gives you minor Aegis instead. You don't need health recovery in this fight. Swap that set out for Eternal Yokeda if you don't trust your healer. If you have solid group, put on Yolnahkriin's because you still get health but you also get minor aegis, AND you also buff your group. If you are stubbornly tied to Alessian, then I guess you can keep running it, but at least get rid of the useless Vateshran set and Endurance set and replace it with another 5-piece set so you can stop getting one-shot. Hell, you can just pair Alessian with Eternal or Yolnahkriin's. Regarding your monster set, you are running Mighty Chudan. Just put Major Resolve on your bar. I'll go over your skills in a minute, but you are running 5 completely useless skills. You have more than enough room to run a source of Major Resolve. You can either put on Balance like a lot of DK tanks do, or you can just use the class skill that provides it. Getting rid of Chudan gives you two choices. Choice 1: Put on a head and shoulder piece of your other 5 piece set so you always have two 5 piece bonuses active at all times. Choice 2: Get rid of the Master's Sword and Board also so you can run a good Monster Set and also keep the two 5 piece bonuses active at all times. If you still have trouble surviving and want more resistance, you can try Bloodspawn or Lord Warden. Other notes on gear: -Double sword and board is barely viable anymore. Run an ice staff on your back bar so you can keep your enchant active at all times (wall of elements), range taunt, and also provide brittle. -You still might want more health. You have the option to change out all your prismatic enchants for just straight up health enchants. Third, half of your skills HAVE NO PURPOSE IN THIS FIGHT. There is no "jack of all trades" bar setup. You change your bar based on the content you are doing. Here are your useless skills: -Draw Essence is useless in this fight -Molten Armaments is almost always useless because DPS should always have their own source of Major Sorcery and Brutality that is part of their rotation, and this is the DPS morph anyway... and you're a tank -Power Slam is useless in this fight -Invasion is useless in this fight -Dragon Fire Scale is useless in this fight (what projectiles are you defending against???) Here are some options you can replace them with: -Source of Major Resolve (Balance or DK class skill) -Source of Minor Protection (e.g. Circle of Protection from Fighter's Guild or get it passively from slotting the Psijic Ultimate on your front bar) -Engulfing Flames (is a unique buff not accessible by your group unless there is another DK running it, so this is way better than Molten Armaments) -Vigor (keeps your health topped off) -Revealing Flare (gives you MAJOR PROTECTION at all times, awesome because you keep getting one-shot) Here are some other options to consider once you make the switch to ice staff on the back bar -Wall of Elements (keeps your enchant, and therefore weakening or crusher up at all times) -Frost Clench (range taunt that applies brittle AND major maim) -Elemental Drain Lastly, I will say that, in your defense, is that I didn't know you were running this with a PUG. That's a different animal. My advice changes depending on group comp, group skill level, and goal. All I had to go on was what you told me about your personal set up. Anyway, I have tailored my above advice to accommodate that. On the other hand, everything you're saying now makes sense to me. You are going through what I call the "Evolution of a Tank" progression. It appears as though you're in the stage where you run primarily with PUGs, so your builds are all designed around suboptimal groups, and when I say suboptimal, I mean absolutely terrible groups, because pugging as a tank is rough as hell. Once you start playing with a regular group and start doing all the end game PVE achievements (start with hard modes, but really start getting into trifecta achievements), you'll look back at your current build and laugh. Trust me. I went through it. I literally laughed out loud when you compared my advice to trial meta advice (seriously, have you seen my builds and strategies?) All I do is theory craft. But every time I theory craft, I grab my group, run through a bunch of DLC hard modes, and test them to see if they are actually viable before I post about them on the youtube channel. Again, I hope this didn't come across as harsh. I was just going through your build line by line and critiquing all the places it needed work to help you clear the major hurdle you were having in this hard mode.
Irreverent Aegis Video content - helpful and funny I refer to them almost daily for the dlc pledge Tanking Skills - insane up there with the dude who uses the rediculous curved health bars ui Characters Face - What in the actual FUCK is going on with that 0:13 even better with a side view 3:45
1. Thanks! In my earlier vids (like this one), I'm far less funny than I am now, I think, but I'm glad you enjoy the content regardless! 2. I look back at my old videos and think I suck. LOL. I do a lot of wrong things that I don't do anymore, but I starting making these early on in my tanking career when I was just starting to do hard modes, but it's nice to look back and see how far I've come. If you want to see some actual "insane" tanking, you should check out me doing this hard mode on my Glass Aegis with ~21K health. ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html 3. It's the "Jester" personality, the most amazing thing ever. Thanks for the comment!
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Oh damn I saw this video before the Mask for this dungeon was about to drop and loved it! Was trying to find again only to find your other goldmine video on the trifecta run. Both extremely helpful, I should have know it was from the same guy lol
Thanks! You should see the video I have where I tank it with 21K health. That one was the fun one. ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html
I am new to playing as a tank and I have been looking up guides on how to play tank specifically in those dungeons and trials... Finally!! Thank you for all the tank guides videos I am about to watch them all :))
Glad I could help!
Finally a decent guide for this dungeon.
Glad you liked the guide!
i also used the chains from the ardent flames skill line to keep the enemies i can group up
as you should
Awesome content!
Is the slippery cp good to use on the grasping mechanic?
This isn't something you break free from, so it still hits you and is unblockable. You can, however, use unstoppable pots, and those prevent you from getting crowd controlled, so you don't get hit at all. You can also use the heavy armor skill that does the same thing. That also prevents it. You can actually see me tank this hard mode with 20K health with no group member deaths if you watch my Glass Aegis video ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html. I use unstoppable potions and potion extension glyphs to give me a ton of uptime on the unstoppable buff.
@@irreverentaegis unforunately unstoppable brute's immovability only lasts 6 seconds so it would be hard to keep up 100%. And i dont really like using immovable pots since i might need a tri pot for sustain or heal.
Should i just buff up my resistances then? I got major/minor resolve, minor aegis, minor maim, and minor protection on my dk tank. Do you think those are enough? Am I missing anything?
I love your 4 man videos, but your dedication to LT and time on your front bar drive me nuts. But if it gets done, it gets done. Good work
I have several different tanking styles, depending on the character I'm playing on, group comp, and difficulty of the content. I ran a build "make everyone a tank," also called Omni Aegis, that I have a video for, which I played for months, which uses Grave Guardian. You need to be blocking for Grave Guardian to work, so I pretty much trained myself to block... a lot. I also often run a healer in 4 man content, so sustain is never really an issue, so why drop block?
However, I also have a build that is an 18k health DPS tank where I almost never block because I need to keep up my DPS rotation. I hit 37K on the 3 million dummy while keeping up taunt the entire time with my typical bar set up used in most Vet DLC dungeons. Getting ready to compile a video showing me tanking every Vet DLC boss with that guy.
Anyway, when I record a video, you see the habits I've developed from whatever my latest tank project was, even if they're awful habits that I'd never recommend anyone pick up. It comes with the territory of experimenting with different styles and sets.
I appreciate the feedback though. I look to improve my tanking every time I play, so hearing from other people on areas I can improve is always nice. Glad you enjoy my vids!
I keep dying to "grasping void" that's not telegraphed as a heavy and there are no visuals that I can really see before he does this. It hits for about 45K but sort of comes out of the blue. If I just knew he'd do this I can block it or dodge it. But he keeps surprising me.
I'm pretty sure It works like the monster set he drops, Kjalnar's Nightmare. "Damaging an enemy with a Light Attack puts a Bone stack on them for 5 seconds, up to once every 0.5 seconds. At 5 stacks, an undodgeable skeletal hand attacks your enemy after 1 second, knocking them into the air and stunning them for 3 seconds, or dealing 2221 Magic damage if they cannot be stunned."
You can just use the heavy armor ability, which grants you CC immunity. You can't get hit by the ability if you have that up. You can also watch my video where I tanked this in LIGHT ARMOR with 21K health running unstoppable potions. ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html
Do you have an idea of the base damage of the boss's light attacks, heavy attacks, abyss, and grasping void? Just want to calculate how many buffs i should keep up.
No idea. The damage used to be way higher because this dungeon was released before CP 2.0. Now you have lots of options to mitigate damage, so you won't need as much protection.
@@irreverentaegis Thanks. It just didnt feel that way the last time i ran it. Am i supposed to block his light attacks? I find that my stamina runs out quickly when im perma blocking. If i have my buffs and debuffs up can i get away with not blocking his light attacks?
@@philipm5043. After you get attacked, heavy attack him. The sword and board heavy attack is super fast, so you'll have plenty of time between his attacks to get off a heavy to refill your stamina. Just time it right. You can probably take a light attack without blocking no problem here, but I haven't specifically tested it.
Sustain issues are multifaceted, however, and there are many ways to diagnose and subsequently solve those issues. Hopefully this one suggestion is enough for you.
i use vampire ulimate and the undo aka temped guard from the order line
I've messed around with trying to make an end-game vampire tank but I never like the results. Haven't settled on a build that's up to my standards for getting trifecta achievements.
U try to tank it without Healer?
Yes. We let 1 of our DPS just focus the big add. Crowd control/snare/murder. I just hang out away from everyone and throw down some HOTs to keep my health topped off.
Me and the boys are about to head in there right now… I am going to be running my DK tank but your Necro tank makes me want to race change my mag cro
Necro tanking is super enjoyable. Give it a shot!
I have a stupid question. I did this dungeon today with my tank, surviving the light attacks were fine if I timed my block perfectly, but I had a gigantic issue with the hands. I took around 46K dmg from it while the boss was under Major, Minor maim and my tank has about 40K health and 50% armour mitigation. I was thinking about shields, but it's almost impossible to anticipate this attack when he does it to you. How are you taking so little damage from it?
I never did this, but if you run "immovable" potions or the skill unstoppable brute, you can actually just block the attack, as you won't get crowd controlled by the hand (which makes you not able to block the damage).
Other than that, what are your resistances and CP allocation? I've done this on multiple classes of tank.
Make sure all your resistance buffs are active. So minor protection (Psijic Ultimate gives this passively if you don't have a class ability that provides it), major protection (slot revealing flare), major resolve, minor resolve. Then make sure you have any class resistance buffs active, like the ghost on the necro, for example. If you have a tank that uses damage shields, just always keep your health topped off, and always put the shield back up every time it goes down.
@@irreverentaegis I'm playing a DK, Argonian, with :
Attributes 64 / 64
Health
32
Magicka
16
Stamina
16
Gear :
- Mighty Chudan's Pauldron-...*Invigorating
- Alessian Cuirass-...*Invigorating
- Alessian Gauntlets-...*Invigorating
- Alessian Girdle-...*Invigorating
- Alessian Greaves-...*Invigorating
- Alessian Sabatons-...*Invigorating
Enchants : 7x prismatic defense
Jewelry :
- Necklace of Endurance-...*Healthy
- Ring of Endurance-...*Arcane
- Ring of Endurance-...*Robust
Enchants : 3x prismatic recovery
Weapons :
- The Master's Perfected Sword-...*Defending
- The Master's Perfected Shield-...*Invigorating
Enchants : 1x prismatic defense, 1x crushing
- Vateshran's Perfected Axe-...*Defending
- Vateshran's Perfected Shield-...*Invigorating
Enchants : 1x prismatic defense, 1x weakening
Food / Drink : Velothi View Vintage Malbec-...
Skills :
- Main : 1. Pierce Armour / 2. Draw Essence / 3. Unrelenting Grip / 4. Green Dragon Blood / 5. Molten Armaments
- Back : 1. Power Slam / 2. Choking Talons / 3. Invasion / 4. Dragon Fire Scale / 5. Igneous Shield
CP :
- Green : Steed's Blessing, Treasure Hunter, Master Gatherer, Plentiful Harvest
- Blue : Enduring Resolve, Reinforced, Master-At-Arms, Cutting Defense
- Red : Boundless Vitality, Slippery, Expert Evasion, Rejuvenation
It is still a build in progress, I have to :
- gold my jewels
- swap the jewelry traits with infused
- switch drink for Bewitched Sugar Skulls
@@fredericbrasseur7399 This looks like a PVP build. That's your problem. You're bringing a PVP build to try to get an end game PVE achievement. Your blue CP should mitigate damage, and you have 3 things that are essentially useless.
Check this out: thetankclub.com/eso-tank-champion-points/
You are also making this extra hard on your DPS because you aren't doing anything to buff them (your sets are all selfish), which means you need to survive way longer.
@@irreverentaegis Ok, there are things, I agree with, and things I couldn't disagree more.
First, yes to survive the burst, the answer probably resides inside the extra mitigation from CP nodes. If I had both CP to reduce damage it would deal deal around 36,8K, which wouldn't be a OS anymore but that would still be 12,8K more than what you are taking in this video footage, which doesn't answer my initial question.
Also, I don't really understand why you call my build selfish. Sure I don't bring Minor Courage or other set buffs for the team, but I'm bringing my load of buffs, debuffs, and CC with my skills. And when you play mostly 4man pugs, bringing the initial buffs like Major Sorcery/Brutality/Breach Standard of Might bring the bulk of extra DpS (and it saves a lot of potions for your team). Also, I rather have a massive pull on a single ability and beeing able to follow up with a root and a synergy instead of having an extra minor buff.
Honestly, when you say, and I quote : "You are making this extra hard on your DpS" this is honestly just the usual bullocks I hear around the "meta" people in ESO who are running trials on steroids. I could just make a similar strawman instead and say "you are making this extra hard for your Healer", but that's not the point.
Do you know, how much DpS minor courage brings to your team on a fully optimized DpS build? Around 3% on average... Which means for every 1min and 3sec you fight, you avoid 3sec of that fight. That "way longer to fight" is a huge hyperbole which I'm tired to hear.
Now, if you are speed running with people that know what they are doing, sure it is more effective. But with a group of randos I don't even know, no way I'm gonna give up 1/2 my surviability just so they can have smallest of edge.
I'll try with the CP changes next pledge, but regen tanks are pretty good for 4man PVE content. Not having to worry about wasting ICD on heals, and beeing able to focus on Debuffs and Control is very underated.
Thank you for your input.
@@fredericbrasseur7399 You're a DK tank and an Argonian. I'm a Necro tank and a Nord. Both of these things mean I have more passive mitigation than you. I also have a ghost, which gives me extra mitigation and keep up minor protection. I also have a healer applying an infused weakening enchant (over twice as strong as your sword and board one- which only gives half the enchant strength and isn't infused. I also got the final dungeon buff (which gives extra mitigation, and extra extra mitigation because I'm a necro because the buffs in this dungeon boost necros more), and I'm wearing, in this video, Eternal Yokeda, which gives Minor Aegis. That's why I don't take a lot of damage.
I don't intend the rest of this to be harsh, but I understand it may across as such, so I apologize in advance and hope you are taking this from the perspective of someone trying to learn, not fight with someone on the internet. =]
First... you came to me asking for advice because YOU DON'T HAVE A CLEAR. I'm all for theory crafting and having a good discussion (respectful arguments make everyone smarter), but you are arguing as someone WHO DOESN'T HAVE A CLEAR, so what you are doing ISN'T WORKING. You can defend your choices all you want, but until you actually clear the content with your build, your argument won't hold up because you don't have the proof that it is good enough to get the job done. Not only that, but getting a clear is the lowest amount of proof you should bring. Stronger arguments are made when you can get the trifecta achievement with the build, then teach your build to someone else, and then see if they can replicate it. If they can't, your build probably requires too much skill for the common player, and the only reason it works is because YOU PERSONALLY have enough skill to make it work. For example, I run a build called the Glass Aegis. It's a 20K health double ice staff magsorc DPS that I use to tank. I have tanked 100% of the the Vet DLC dungeons with it, but I don't go around telling people they should run it as a tank unless they have a dedicated group looking for an awesome challenge, because it simply isn't viable for a tank of average skill.
Second, I call your gear selfish because it is selfish. There is not a single set you are wearing that helps your team. You don't need to pull in enemies in this fight (outside of chains if you are the guy pulling in the skeleton), so why are you wearing Vateshran sword and board?
Also regarding your gear, you said your main problem is you keep getting one-shot by the hand. There are two solutions to this- take less damage or increase your health. Alessian gives you health, armor, and health recovery. That actually does help you survive, but if you want to survive better, bring something that gives you minor Aegis instead. You don't need health recovery in this fight. Swap that set out for Eternal Yokeda if you don't trust your healer. If you have solid group, put on Yolnahkriin's because you still get health but you also get minor aegis, AND you also buff your group. If you are stubbornly tied to Alessian, then I guess you can keep running it, but at least get rid of the useless Vateshran set and Endurance set and replace it with another 5-piece set so you can stop getting one-shot. Hell, you can just pair Alessian with Eternal or Yolnahkriin's.
Regarding your monster set, you are running Mighty Chudan. Just put Major Resolve on your bar. I'll go over your skills in a minute, but you are running 5 completely useless skills. You have more than enough room to run a source of Major Resolve. You can either put on Balance like a lot of DK tanks do, or you can just use the class skill that provides it. Getting rid of Chudan gives you two choices.
Choice 1: Put on a head and shoulder piece of your other 5 piece set so you always have two 5 piece bonuses active at all times.
Choice 2: Get rid of the Master's Sword and Board also so you can run a good Monster Set and also keep the two 5 piece bonuses active at all times. If you still have trouble surviving and want more resistance, you can try Bloodspawn or Lord Warden.
Other notes on gear:
-Double sword and board is barely viable anymore. Run an ice staff on your back bar so you can keep your enchant active at all times (wall of elements), range taunt, and also provide brittle.
-You still might want more health. You have the option to change out all your prismatic enchants for just straight up health enchants.
Third, half of your skills HAVE NO PURPOSE IN THIS FIGHT. There is no "jack of all trades" bar setup. You change your bar based on the content you are doing. Here are your useless skills:
-Draw Essence is useless in this fight
-Molten Armaments is almost always useless because DPS should always have their own source of Major Sorcery and Brutality that is part of their rotation, and this is the DPS morph anyway... and you're a tank
-Power Slam is useless in this fight
-Invasion is useless in this fight
-Dragon Fire Scale is useless in this fight (what projectiles are you defending against???)
Here are some options you can replace them with:
-Source of Major Resolve (Balance or DK class skill)
-Source of Minor Protection (e.g. Circle of Protection from Fighter's Guild or get it passively from slotting the Psijic Ultimate on your front bar)
-Engulfing Flames (is a unique buff not accessible by your group unless there is another DK running it, so this is way better than Molten Armaments)
-Vigor (keeps your health topped off)
-Revealing Flare (gives you MAJOR PROTECTION at all times, awesome because you keep getting one-shot)
Here are some other options to consider once you make the switch to ice staff on the back bar
-Wall of Elements (keeps your enchant, and therefore weakening or crusher up at all times)
-Frost Clench (range taunt that applies brittle AND major maim)
-Elemental Drain
Lastly, I will say that, in your defense, is that I didn't know you were running this with a PUG. That's a different animal. My advice changes depending on group comp, group skill level, and goal. All I had to go on was what you told me about your personal set up. Anyway, I have tailored my above advice to accommodate that. On the other hand, everything you're saying now makes sense to me. You are going through what I call the "Evolution of a Tank" progression. It appears as though you're in the stage where you run primarily with PUGs, so your builds are all designed around suboptimal groups, and when I say suboptimal, I mean absolutely terrible groups, because pugging as a tank is rough as hell.
Once you start playing with a regular group and start doing all the end game PVE achievements (start with hard modes, but really start getting into trifecta achievements), you'll look back at your current build and laugh. Trust me. I went through it. I literally laughed out loud when you compared my advice to trial meta advice (seriously, have you seen my builds and strategies?) All I do is theory craft. But every time I theory craft, I grab my group, run through a bunch of DLC hard modes, and test them to see if they are actually viable before I post about them on the youtube channel.
Again, I hope this didn't come across as harsh. I was just going through your build line by line and critiquing all the places it needed work to help you clear the major hurdle you were having in this hard mode.
Irreverent Aegis
Video content - helpful and funny I refer to them almost daily for the dlc pledge
Tanking Skills - insane up there with the dude who uses the rediculous curved health bars ui
Characters Face - What in the actual FUCK is going on with that 0:13 even better with a side view 3:45
1. Thanks! In my earlier vids (like this one), I'm far less funny than I am now, I think, but I'm glad you enjoy the content regardless!
2. I look back at my old videos and think I suck. LOL. I do a lot of wrong things that I don't do anymore, but I starting making these early on in my tanking career when I was just starting to do hard modes, but it's nice to look back and see how far I've come. If you want to see some actual "insane" tanking, you should check out me doing this hard mode on my Glass Aegis with ~21K health. ruclips.net/video/FfoYZ01zwHw/видео.html
3. It's the "Jester" personality, the most amazing thing ever.
Thanks for the comment!
i am more of a ice and lightning mage tank on dragonknight
What do you use to apply major and minor breach?
@@irreverentaegis i used crushing weapon from the summerset guild skill line
for major breach
@@KristinaFarron Didn't even know that was a thing. Thanks for the info!
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