Best Tank Build?

[Tiffy]

I HATE DEATH

[BlackRibbon]

Armour tank or health tank?
What difficulty?

[IronBigg]

This guide has a lot of good loud builds, pick your fancy: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2141942312

[SomebadPoison]

anarchist is good

[I Like Trousers]

• Armourer ICTV.
  2s godmode when your armour gets stripped & has innate 2 shot armour on the highest difficulty & regens quite quickly as well.
  
• Maniac at best will minus enemy damage by 48 points & half of that for your team as long as you continuously damage enemies so on difficulties like overkill it is very hard to kill a Maniac player as they take less than 1 dmg most of the time though they have to watch out for green dozers as on that difficulty they deal around 225 damage.
  
• Suit Anarchist regenerates 5 armor every 2s while enemies on Normal difficulty deal less than that when they shoot so you are immortal on that difficulty as long as they don't melee spam you or you die from the environment.
  
• Leech's ampule can reduce any damage that is higher than 10% of it's hp but lower than 200 to 10% of their hp giving them 10 shot hp at best. If this damage is higher than 200 damage then it will be reduced to 20% of their hp but on DS heavy zeal shots can be reduced below the 200 dmg breakpoint via Quick Fix aced + Underdog aced.
  Leech's ampule can let it survive 99999999 fire damage some griefers use to kill other players & they can survive high crimespree as well reducing millions of damage to just 20% of their hp instead.
  
• Crew Chief surprisingly if you get ICTV armour + Hostages.
  
• Muscle with it's 2x hp value & innate hp regen. get a joker & maybe Hostage Taker to make it recover much faster.
  
• Infiltrator with it's high dmg resist in close quarters can be made even more tanky with Frenzy but this deck is pretty mid. not bad not great, you'll most likely want to get a joker instead of using frenzy.

[The destoyer of worlsd!!!]

Originally posted by caniac:

anarchist is good

Anarchist typically isn't regarded as a tank perk deck, but I guess it could be used as decent regeneration tank if you used it with aced Frenzy, an LBV boosted by basic Iron Man and aced Die Hard (instead of suit for much more max armor and instead of ICTV for more armor gating) and fire weapons (or something else that lets you hit enemies a whole lot, especially if it's in the head)

[Mementocity]

what difficulty

[BlackRibbon]

Originally posted by THE BUTT MONSTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:

Originally posted by caniac:

anarchist is good

Anarchist typically isn't regarded as a tank perk deck, but I guess it could be used as decent regeneration tank if you used it with aced Frenzy, an LBV boosted by basic Iron Man and aced Die Hard (instead of suit for much more max armor and instead of ICTV for more armor gating) and fire weapons (or something else that lets you hit enemies a whole lot, especially if it's in the head)

It is a tank deck on anything but Death Sentence.

[The man, the myth, the leg]

ICTV armorer-can work with anything, can have zerk
muscle- can work with armor or suit(i prefer armor), cant use zerk since its ha health deck
ICTV stoic- pretty expensive(joker+armor skills), but extremely tanky,altough doesnt work well below overkill

all the 3 setups can work with basially any weapon but here are my favourite combos

armorer->100 dmg AR and SMG(eg. gold ak+krink) or a 100 AR+something for shields. with 80% zerk(after a down) is very strong with BEA, altough the combo does need some trigger discipline

stoic- low dmg LMG(buzzsaw, either KSP)+ arbiter. arbiter for shields and snipers, LMG for everything else. if you dont have arbiter an accurate SMG or the compact 40 would also work. works very well with BEA since stoic doesnt benefit from bullseye

ICTV muscle- 500 dmg sniper + 60/70 smg.(eg. platypus+para) use sniper for basically everything, SMG is for dozer shredding. dont use supprsors on the sniper

suit muscle- triple smg(eg. 3 heather, 2 heathers+cobra/CMP) work very well with crits+BEA,

[BlackRibbon]

If you tell us what difficulty you play we can help you better.

[thekins]

ictv armor and the muscle deck you get like 300 armor 450 hp its pretty hard to die unless a sniper boops you and a dozer face checks you.

[Tiffy]

i usually play mayhem to overkill

[Tiffy]

but i only have 105 skill points

[I Like Trousers]

https://pd2builder.netlify.app/?s=5g3I0-4eN100010iF005012000100&p=2&a=6&t=4&d=5
Amourer + Uppers is very hard to kill.
Make sure to stand on the first aid kits rather than eating them right off the ground.
This build is non infamous friendly, comes with 2 jokers being meatshields taking aggro away from you while you sit on objectives rushing through them.
Even if a green dozer pops up out of no where punches you for 200 dmg then shoots you for 225 you'll still be safe for a whole 2s after your armour breaks thanks to Armourer's Reinforced Armor card giving you invulnerability.

[Mementocity]

Originally posted by tiffy:

i usually play mayhem to overkill

you can use easy to use perkdecks and build, like these ones

Originally posted by I Like Trousers:

https://pd2builder.netlify.app/?s=5g3I0-4eN100010iF005012000100&p=2&a=6&t=4&d=5
Amourer + Uppers is very hard to kill.

Originally posted by thekins:

ictv armor and the muscle deck you get like 300 armor 450 hp its pretty hard to die unless a sniper boops you and a dozer face checks you.

not too much thought goes into them aside from just making the build, their bonuses are always on and unlike stoic,while being the ultimate tank, they need no inputs or brain to use