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larsalexander123
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what powers do you use in dungeons? and solo?
thanks a lot.
im a protector swordmaster GF btw
thanks a lot.
im a protector swordmaster GF btw
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For solo content like Dreadring and Icewinddale I generally use:
Enforced Threat - Large AoE with debuff and replenishes your Guard. This is important as Mod 6 requires you to spam your shield much more than before. If you use a healer companion this also helps to keep mobs off your healer.
Iron Warrior - Can grant a nice amount of Temp HP, adds DR buff, replenishes your Guard by a lot, and it lasts awhile too. Great for keeping you alive when your health runs low or you get surrounded. For dungeons this also grants a significant boost to your aggro pulling which is handy on bosses.
Lunging Strike - Excellent Range, Short cooldown, and high DR buff. My Recovery is enough that I can pop this every 6 seconds and the buff last 3 so about half the time I have a 50% buff to Damage Resistance. I've also feated it so that it acts as an interrupt to boot.
I used to die all the time in IWD but with a little practice and fine tuning it's become a rare occurrence.
When doing dungeons I find myself using these same skills a lot, although sometimes I'll switch one out for Into the Fray. Enforced threat becomes very useful as it's your only hard taunt and debuffs all monster allowing your teammates to deal significantly more damage.
But what really keeps me alive during solo and dungeon content are the feats Martial Mastery and Action Surge which allow me to gain AP fast whether my Shield is up or down. This is critical as it allows me to pop Fighter's Recovery whenever my Health gets uncomfortably low. Combine the daily with Steel Defense and for the first few seconds you're immune to damage making it easy to reach full health ASAP (I find that using the at-will Swordmaster strike on mobs heals me the quickest since it's such a great AoE). Then I rely on potions, my shield, and iron warrior to survive while my AP bar refills, which, thanks to aforementioned feats, usually doesn't take long. If you got a DC or Devoted OP in your party be sure to work together as it makes things so much more manageable.
Knight's Valor - This can be an alternative to using Enforced Threat or in combination with as it builds threat when others get hit, which will help redirect them to u as well as of course reducing damage people take. However this is mostly useful for majority melee groups as ranged people shouldn't be getting hit enough for this to have enough effect.
Knight's Challenge - Not tested this in Mod 6 but this use to be quite useful in certain situations like tough bosses that are capable of attacks that can hit the whole party, e.g. Dragons. It forces the target to attack only you for a short time and reduces damage it does to everyone but you. However if end content bosses are as tough as people say I would be concerned this skill would now just get us killed as it causes the target to do double damage to us.
Bull Rush/Lunging Strike/Line Breaker Assault - These skills are useful gap closers and now in Mod 6 have the added effect of increasing your DR for a short time, which is quite helpful (although I am not sure if Bull Rush does) and as a tank, mobility is important. I prefer Bull Rush most times as it can give you breathing room when surrounded since it knocks an enemy away from you.
Commander's Strike/Into The Fray - Useful for assisting the party for added damage, but I wouldn't replace something like Bull Rush or Enforced Threat for it.
At-Wills - Personally I prefer Crushing Surge and Weaponmaster's Strike as it gives a good combination of single and multi-target. For longer fights against a single target, i.e. a boss I would replace WMS for Tide of Iron as you may well need the stamina recovery.
Passive Skills - My preferred choice when tanking in a group would be Steel Defense, which can be a life saver and Enhanced Mark, which greatly improves your threat generation so less having to chase after enemies attacking another player. When not in a group I would replace Enhanced Mark for something like Steel Blitz.
Hope that helps
no but is ALOT easier with steel defence now
Dungeons:
features: Shield talent ,Steel Defense.
Encounters:Lunging Strike(for the 50% DR),ITF,Knights Valor.
Dailies:Villain's Menace,Fighters recovery
Solo:
features:Combat Superiority,Steel Defense.
Encounters:Lunging Strike,Flourish/Knee,Anvil
dailies:Villain's Menace,Terrifying Impact
LOL. I am tanking the T2s with a conq. You have to be quick to react and lag can kill you but it is a lot of fun. Basically I'm going back to the old-school conq fighting from early Mods where you walk away from some hits and cycle attacks on dailies.