Recommend me fun tank build

[SeaSaw]

Hello, i want to start new game with a friend (sorcerer), me playing as a tank. I found couple of Warlord builds that look solid, but i dunno if they are fun. Can you guys share with me with your favourite tank builds?

[DirtyMick]

Personally, I do not find tank builds fun until you are fully geared up. If I were you, I would go warlord, but while leveling focus on forcewave. This will allow you to actually put out really good damage throughout the whole leveling process. Not doing big damage is boring lol. But when you have a full set, like markovians, you can be tanky as hell and put out big damage. Also, you'll be pretty tanky still if you focus on forcewave.

Might also be good to know that tanking as a role in this game doesn't quite work like MMOs. This game does not respect the traditional roles like MMOs do. Bosses will still go after the sorcerer at times, regardless of how many taunts you have. Nobody knows exactly how it works, but sometimes just putting a lot of damage on a boss will make them go after you. Sometimes you can just sit in the back doing nothing while your buddy attacks the boss, and the boss will suddenly charge at you.

[kekkuli]

There's no such thing.

[MagnusCerebrum]

Witchblade (Soldier+Occultist) is my main build and is pretty fun to me. I'm using a twohander so I can't use Overguard for defense but the Blood of Dreeg is good enough to keep me alive when I'm fighting mobs with 10 levels more than me

[QNecron]

Sentinel (Oath + Occultist) has been pretty fun for me. Taking the Acid/Poison route on the Oath while focusing on Chaos/Acid for damage on the Occultist. There are more than a few items that lend themselves to these classes together and they seem to synergize very well.

[SeaSaw]

Thank you all for your replies guys! And i am listening for more ideas, if anything i can always try couple different builds.

[The_Mess]

Retaliation builds can be stupidly fun and acid retaliation is really easy to spec into with just Epic gear. And you can also transmute acid/elemental retaliation into physical, making for some very strong builds. Though not as stonk as it once was, as Zantai swung the nerf hammer on all retaliation stuff :P

[QNecron]

Originally posted by The_Mess:

Retaliation builds can be stupidly fun and acid retaliation is really easy to spec into with just Epic gear. And you can also transmute acid/elemental retaliation into physical, making for some very strong builds. Though not as stonk as it once was, as Zantai swung the nerf hammer on all retaliation stuff :P

Relatively new to GD, but I wonder what it was like before!? I have a Templar that has 7500+ retaliation damage and it seems crazy to me.

[FlamingX21]

Originally posted by QNecron:

Originally posted by The_Mess:

Retaliation builds can be stupidly fun and acid retaliation is really easy to spec into with just Epic gear. And you can also transmute acid/elemental retaliation into physical, making for some very strong builds. Though not as stonk as it once was, as Zantai swung the nerf hammer on all retaliation stuff :P

Relatively new to GD, but I wonder what it was like before!? I have a Templar that has 7500+ retaliation damage and it seems crazy to me.

Before it was super broken to point where retal builds could solo by just standing on spot doing nothing in shard 120 or something crazy. 7500+ is nothing compared to numbers you are able to achieve if you really focus on only retaliation (over 200k or so...)

[Childe Roland]

Originally posted by QNecron:

Relatively new to GD, but I wonder what it was like before!? I have a Templar that has 7500+ retaliation damage and it seems crazy to me.

Let me put it this way: the only non-pet build Maya has is a retal Warlord.

[Chronusaur]

Originally posted by Childe Roland:

Originally posted by QNecron:

Relatively new to GD, but I wonder what it was like before!? I have a Templar that has 7500+ retaliation damage and it seems crazy to me.

Let me put it this way: the only non-pet build Maya has is a retal Warlord.

Maya has a non-pet build? heresy.

[Blake]

Pet builds suck ass and for those who are too scared to don sword and armour and enter battle oneself

[FlamingX21]

Originally posted by SkyFall:

Pet builds suck ass and for those who are too scared to don sword and armour and enter battle oneself

true, true...

[Chronusaur]

Originally posted by SkyFall:

Pet builds suck ass and for those who are too scared to don sword and armour and enter battle oneself

I mean you're right but dang no need to call me out like that lol

[Zethell]

Have to agree with original reply (although he's wrong in his second statement), but if you do have the gear then I managed to somehow finish the game with a really tanky retaliation (thorns) build.

(It's extremely dull though)

Originally posted by FlamingX21:

Originally posted by SkyFall:

Pet builds suck ass and for those who are too scared to don sword and armour and enter battle oneself

true, true... :lunar2019piginablanket:

I finished the entire game + all expansions on Ultimate with my Lv.100 Necro pet build.
And it recently got massively buffed, making some ultimate dungeons a breeze with it too.

It DOES require min-maxing your gear and build though. And not just your own resistances to 80, but your pets too. @_@

However.. Pet builds used to be a lot harder to play than sword & board, It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to finish the game on ultimate with it. Every boss/miniboss will most likely one/two shot you.

[QNecron]

Originally posted by FlamingX21:

Originally posted by QNecron:

Relatively new to GD, but I wonder what it was like before!? I have a Templar that has 7500+ retaliation damage and it seems crazy to me.

Before it was super broken to point where retal builds could solo by just standing on spot doing nothing in shard 120 or something crazy. 7500+ is nothing compared to numbers you are able to achieve if you really focus on only retaliation (over 200k or so...)

That's definitely insane, being 48-50 and dealing 7500 was crazy to me but higher levels dealing that kind of damage for just existing is hilarious.

Originally posted by Childe Roland:

Originally posted by QNecron:

Relatively new to GD, but I wonder what it was like before!? I have a Templar that has 7500+ retaliation damage and it seems crazy to me.

Let me put it this way: the only non-pet build Maya has is a retal Warlord.

Maya?