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Stats

Stats are an important part for every class you play, so keep your head at the lesson here!
A healthy balance in base stats is a must, but before we can begin on that, we need to get our special stats in order first.

Dominance/Supremacy

This stat will make us deal more physical damage and reduce energy cost on abilities.
Big note for our tanking abilities is that our Adrenaline Surge will last much longer the more of this we have.
Up to a whopping 25s Adrenaline Surge on a 1500 Dominance/Supremacy!

The more comfortable you're getting in tanking and staying alive, the less dominance you need to take tho. The damage gain from this stat is as weak as Proficiency, thus we can use more into Determination when possible

Critical Chance
Critical chance is really good for DPS, even for us as DPSTANK.
Running around a steady 50% seems good and safe, go higher if you have more stats to spare. Remember, more stats in base, is less gain per stat.
I'd say in relic quality patch, for sure max out crit chance to 750.
If we'd be in Fabled quality patch, I'd say somewhat less, perhaps 5% Critical Chance less.
In Legendary quality patch another 5% less and so on..

Once we got our 2 special stats set up right, we can dumb all else we have into base.
For base we want a healthy balance like this:



This way we ensure that our support's Valiance will increase our Determination, contributing the most to our damage that way.


For defensive stats

we'll run a not too crazy 750 Caution, and then we got a segway.
We can go for either Survivability with a healer, or bloodlust.
Considering we are a DPSTANK, that means we got a lot of dps. That DPS will be used to heal us up all the time, and it sure works well!
If you feel like lacking enough DPS to keep yourself alive via bloodlust, then go for survivability and get your buddy into healer.
If bloodlust works fine, then drop the healer thing and that way, you got another slot in your group for another DPS role. More deeps, faster loot!
750 Survivability is enough, for bloodlust we'll have to go 1000 to 1300.
Anything else left over after that goes into Vitality.

Rotation.. on tank?

As the title claims, there is no set rotation on tanking. Especially when we're trying to combine DPS'ing and tanking at the same time.
Ofcourse we have a set burst for that sweet deeps, but depending on how much damage we're getting to deal with, we'll change our choices and rotation accordingly.
If you're taking more damage tanking a guild keeper or tanking a group of trash, you definitely won't use the same order of abilities, thus having different energy consumptions and thus a different rotation.

As for our main damage bursting, we have 2 rotation for massive AOE!

The Grinder!

What happens here is that because of Tramp, you get a buff called
Titan's Rage
and that makes your Vicious Spin deal significant more damage.
You can fill up with some blows after the spin to benefit those debuffs applied by Vicious Spin!

The Pumping Rager!

We stop the burst here because the Tramp buff only lasts 5 seconds.
What happens here is that when tramp is used, you apply yourself a buff called
Titan's Rage
and that makes your blows deal AOE damage to everything around your main target within 8 yards, AND makes those blows deal significantly more damage.

Don't forget about using for that extra juice out of your burst periods.

Racial abilities for choice
As the title implies, lots of racials to pick from.
We'll list them all and show you what's best for us!


Animal Pounce - Priden
Great to deal damage and get 30 Combat Advantage & Energy. Great for DPS'ers, works for us too. But we have a better option!


Battle Cry - Kanian
Gives Courage to all your party members. Honestly never ever touched this in times of need.


Battle March - Gibberling
Increases movement speed by 20% for 5s, and immune to movement slowings/snares during this.
More of a miscellaneous to me than anything else. I remember using it to get around quicker whilst levelling in the big capital cities, otherwise I never used it.
Ahh the old times..


Deep Defense - Xadaganian
This is it. THE if not THE ONYL - best defensive ability in the game for pve.
Reduces all damage taken by 15% per stack. Stacks go up for each direct damage you take, lasts 6s.
On aoe DPStanking, this goes to max instantly, 15*6 = 90% less damage taken with a single ability!
I use this very often, off-gcd, free of energy! What's I gotta say more


Furious Howl - Orc
Stuns your target for 2s.
Good for interruptions, probably underdog but I tend to keep going back to Deep Defense.
Others can stun for you, you have Kick, Aoidos fires, Headbutt, Bedlam... you feel me.


Hold the Line - Aoidos
Anger and Sustainability increased by 150.
Unsure when we'd ever really use that... this looks more like a pvp racial too, where our DPSTANK is a PVE focused setup.

Keep in mind that all racial abilities share the same COOLDOWN, this means you can only use one at a time anyways.
That is why we PICK ONE out of all the ones listed here, rather than combine different ones.

World Mysteries

Quite like Racials, we have some dedicated WM's.

We have only 2 warrior specific ones


Inexorability
We use this to break our Crowd Control, and become immune to it for 5s.
The only PVE situations I can think of are mazes. Man that's a CC - hole.


Mad Leap
This is our preferred WM ability for PVE. A charge that stuns on impact. Helps on interupting monsters and their sneaky casts.

Again, just like with the racials, WM's share cooldowns and thus cannot be combined. The cooldowns however are different.
Mad Leap is only 1m cooldown, whilst Inexorability has 5m!

Potions - help yourself!

We've mentioned some already before, but let's list them here again.
For some reason I believe lots of players underestimate the good potions can bring.
As the game progressed, the arsenal has grown exponentially!

Here's a list of potions to keep in your pockets that surely can help a ton!


Aoidos Fire
You can get these from your 2-weekly order NPC, depending on your order ranking and Trial of Blood score.
Amazing 4s aoe stun. Makes PVE so much easier!


Decoction of Astral Aegis
You can get these also from your 2-weekly order NPC.
There's a better version than this, but it's a start.
30% mitigation for 8s, usually popped before charging into a big pack - usually when skipping monsters in astral, straight to the boss for a massive aoe turndown!


Infinite Tonic of Magic Armor
The better version of Decoction of Astral Aegis.
You get these from being top 24 or top 18 in the heroic ranking of the past season.
It's just like decoction also 30% mitigation, but hear me out! 12s instead of 8s, and...AND, off-gcd!
That's right, decoction is on your gcd, this is off! See? Off, on... you'll notice it
Small sidenote here, this is only for all physical incoming damage, which is nearly always. But decoction is for ALL damage types.
Just so you'll know.


Dragon Potion of Restortation
You can craft these via alchemy
A good healing potion, but I got a better favorite. Heals you for 42% of maximum health.


Vial of Areisa's Blood
Nothing goes above dragon blood!
Just like the Infinite Tonic of Magic Armor, you get it from the top 24 or 18 in past heroic season.
This heals for 35%, but applies a buff that heals another 5% per second for 5s! Beats the Dragon Potion overall, just less punch at the beginning.
Oh, and it also purifies a debuff you have at the time!
Watch it tho, caution when killing Areisa at Fenia's Cloister


Dragon Potion of Absorption
The game's most recent addition.
it's a good potion I thought I'd list so you'd be aware of it. Instead of healing 42%, gives you a shield of 42% to absorb damage.
Pretty good if you stack mitigations on top of it and lasts a good 10s.


Bear in mind that some potions do share cooldowns.
Vial of Areisa shares cd with the dragon heal and absorption potions.
Decoctions share cooldowns too, along with the smaller dragon heal potion, thus I made sure to leave that one out, as I prefer the mitigation as tank.

Artifacts

We have lots of choice of artifacts, but we're boiling down to the 3 most important ones for our setup up.
DISCLAIMER: Later on in 12.0, artifacts will get a full wipe and will have slight changes to the mechanics. Keep this in mind when reading this in the future (when 12.0 is live)

As for the first we have


This is a must have for tanks, but it's becoming more common that everyone is having this at atleast lv5 so that's a good thing.
You're much squishier without it so be sure you have it on too. Happens sometimes you swapped it out




We're running Victory Cross because it makes us deal way more damage than normal!
it's insane what numbers we can push on our burst thanks to this cross.
Without cross, DPSTANK won't be as good or viable, if at all!



Pilgrim's Crown, I made tarnished because the movement speed isn't as important, but the passives are still as good, at the cost of 50% of artifact cost!
REALLY helpful to avoid getting snared by some mobs like the minotaur in Snowflake.
The less cooldown on teleportation abilities works on your charge too, so there's that too!
Oh and longer duration on your mitigation potions, hehe

Shell Abilities

As time has moved on, the fashion like shells and it's abilities have become a bigger part of our gameplay.
Therefor we cover a part about them on what we run best as our DPSTANK setup.

For people that are new to shells, we have 2 slots to put abilities in

We can't put any ability in either the left or right slot tho.
They are divided into categories.
I see it as the left category are the passive abilities, that you don't have to actively trigger. There are some, but most are passive.

The ones important to us from this section are the following:


This is the more defensive passive. I would suggest this to roll if you're rather new and to see how well you can handle damage. If you're starting to get into it, you can change it to the following ability;



This is the offensive version of the previous one. It boosts your outgoing damage when triggered rather than reducing incoming damage. You see, this helps greatly on your DPSTANK bursts!


As for the 2nd slot, I see them as active abilities. They are instead of mount abilities during combat, and we have a few good ones we can pick from;



The bastion is one of those badass ones that's fun to use. Long cooldown tho, but pretty OP.
99% is insane! I'd consider this as a panic back up so your healer has time to get you back up.
Ofcourse if you're running solo or without healer, and rely on your bloodlust, I would not recommend this ability.
Moving on!





This is a nice one to use. But don't over-use it as a tank. You'll burn through your batteries with this one. Only use it for hard hitters but slow hitters. You only have 4 charges of these per usage.
Works to counter AOE's too.

Outro

I hope I was able to teach you a thing or two, that's what PMB all is about!
Eventho I left the EU servers, I still lurk the forums out of nostalgia. I also log eu p2p sometimes still to see if people are still playing.
I'll see you on RU!