Sword and Shield VS Duel Weilding on Tank Fighters. Which is better?

[Random]

All my heros are level 7. I have two fighters. Both fighters are acting as tanks. Wondering what is better Sword and Shield or Duel Weilding Average speed or fast weapons?

Thanks for any help!

[jbridso]

For a tank you always want to go with Sword & Shield for the extra deflection. Dual wielding with fast weapons is actually really bad since all the small hits have a tough time getting through Damage Resistance. Personally, I keep a big slow hard hitting ranged weapon in the secondary slot as the ranged/damage option.

[exoduss123]

There is no reason to ever have fighter dual wield , they dont do any damage and even less damage if built tanky . You can have either a 2hander(if the tank is not tanking anymore you switch to this) or Arbalest(My choice , for the opening pull) in 2nd weapon set

[General Malaise]

Exactly as said. Best armor you can find, best shield you can find, and sword or axe.

I have my tank with 2 options - a Draining weapon, and a Marking weapon.

The draining weapon helps him survive at lower levels, but to be honest, he doesn't need it much at higher levels. For this I use Gauns Share from Temple of Eothas right at the start. He'll still be using that - Enchanted up - when he's level 12. Even though the tank does little damage - it's worth enchanting to improve Draining. You get a fantastic axe in the lower levels of Endless Paths, which I switch to when I get it.

Like I said, he doesn't really need it at later levels, so I give him a Marking weapon, which gives plus 10 accuracy to another party member attacking the same target. I have a sword Called 'Shame or Glory'.

Here he is - nearly invincible:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=448194091

[exoduss123]

I would suggest to always equip both tanks with +Guarding(+1 Engagement Slot = Hold The Line Talent) weapons , one is in Caed Nua level 2 , another at Copperlane Enchant , both available pretty early and will serve you untill end of the game .

[General Malaise]

2 fighters Adra Dragon Fight slight spoiler:

I had trouble with this fight using 2 fighters. Basically, because it's pretty much unbeatable without the slightly cheesy Paralyze and bombard technique(which by no means works every time). You have to get so much damage on it, in such a short space of time(his minions try and heal - so bad to see him go back up to 3 health from 1) I couldn't get the damage done with 2 fighters. I tried equipping them both with fireball necklaces(had 2, but strangely not seen any since). Soon as he was paralyzed, both fighters joined everyone else hitting him with spells. It worked, so guess it was down to this technique. If you don't find those necklaces - there's a sabre you may or may not get that has fireball spell bind: Flames of Fair Rhian

[exoduss123]

You can do this with 1 fighter and 1 petrify trap , Use Boots that give you Jolting Touch - gg

[General Malaise]

Originally posted by Exodus:

You can do this with 1 fighter and 1 petrify trap , Use Boots that give you Jolting Touch - gg

Are you saying a fighter can solo it on PoTD?

To me that seems entirely impossible. Eder does have those boots, but doesn't use jolting touch much(only 3 goes anyway).

He's fresh out of Adra Dragon fight now - his armor in above pic is Superb due to Dragon Scale to enchant it.

No, just can't see it happening - in fact, forget Adra Dragon, I can't see him defeating 4 Adragons, and all the Xaurips alone. I wouldn't believe it, unless I saw it on Youtube.

When I've tried(and I have quite a few times) to do this fight 'properly', killing all the minions first, then attacking Adra Dragon - the fight has gone on so long, and Eder's health has gone, despite him using Wound Binding, and maybe 4 of the others doing Triage on him.