Venomancer Tank

Delkitty - Dreamweaver

You can have a veno tank here is a very good build wearing arcane, at lvl 71 I got 288 magic, 40 vitality, 76 strength, and no dexterity I have a tome that gives me 7 magic and 6 vitality and armor has 6 vitality, it's what you wear and all my skills on melee master is at lvl 10, I have also wood master at lvl 9 I also upgraded all my skills and put in Garnets it's an awsome build enjoy!

SashaGray - Heavens Tear

really b:chuckle

Silest - Sanctuary

Necro..

Firstly..

Arcane venos can only tank RANGED magic mobs - meaning don't get in melee range. Mobs with stacking DoT, you need a cleric for purify(or later at 89 get sage summer sprint).

Edit: To clarify; tanking ranged magic mobs with herc is pointless if you are arcane. You can't die lol.

Heavy armor can tank physical mobs in fox form, and I guess some cases, normal form.

LA is somewhere in between, and with herc, can tank any boss just about that doesn't have the pdef buff.


And personally I think it's cooler to say venotank.

LadyMaraJade - Sanctuary

I know Been Full TT90 HA Veno that my pet can take on one lot of melee mobs while i take on others either in fox form or human its magic mobs that can be a promble hitting pretty hard b:cry i can tank DoD slither Jews and fews the bosses in 59 without a pet just a cleirc healing

Shifong - Heavens Tear

HA veno's can tank anything really depending on how much money is put into it. Just keeping aggro is a huge problem. In squad you won't have any use for your tanking abilities, except for aoe's and random aggro's on you that you can easily take.

I've had to tank KFC and runner boss in nirvana a couple times when there was no barb and bm died (not like it's difficult), and couldn't get aggro back. Also tanked abbadon a couple times when bm couldn't take aggro from me.

Ms_HopToIt - Sanctuary

Well ive never really tanked any really hard bosses just yet, but aoe grinding, I easily steal aggro from my herc even though he bashes every mob... so when that happens, i basically just charge in, foxform, befuddling mist, leech, maybe swich to human, then nova and nox gas.

IzzyLilBunny - Heavens Tear

I've been told by tons of people to switch to heavy if I wanted to tank anything at all, but I didn't have any trouble doing it for 2 years now I guess... At my current level I believe I got about 80 something base vit and 139 with equipped gears, I haven't switched to TT90 just yet (using TT80 gold, immac citrines and sea captain sleeves with flawless). My str is just the amount I need for gears and everything else is mag. I have to say I don't have a herc and I really don't believe what people say these days.

"OMG LVL 91 WITHOUT HERC WTH U CANT PLAY THE GAME" Man im so amazed how overrated hercs are. I've had my crystal magmite since lvl 20 ish and im proud of it, with the help of my chan gear he can easily tank FF / FC (whatever ppl call it these days) bosses except maybe the last one and the one that does the annoying debuffs (pole's wife).

So for the love of god, venos without hercs, Don't think your useless, because your not. I guess im one of the "proofs" that venos without hercs can do things like this (and no you don't need to spend $) :

- Tank your own BH's, yea most of them can be tanked without hercs, with the new walker a veno can tank 29 39 alone, 51 all except wyvern, and wheres 59, you can tank it yourself with a cleric healing you. 69 isn't possible even with a herc at that level, but you can tank pyro yourself with a cleric. I've only tested 79 so far and I successfully tanked stygean with my pet, linus/brig/hooli/loon myself with a lvl 73 cleric healing me.

- Tank TT's, yes you can tank TT without a herc, I haven't tested this too much yet but I know the 1-x and maybe some 2-x are do-able without one if you know what your doing, and so far the only boss I could tank with cleric heals was drummer (when the barb died, lol).

- Tank your own bosses, yes some of the culti/quest bosses are do-able, I won't list them all though since there's a lot of them.

- Aoe grind for the love of god! Why does everyone think venos can only aoe grind with a herc? It's so pathetic it makes me laugh. Get a walker/magmite to your level, get tough on it (magmite) and go try it out, if you die then you really can't play a veno, geez.

- Tank FF/FC bosses, yes, why not? One reason why you shouldn't tank them:
Barb = Lazy
Which hopefully doesn't happen too often >_>.

One other thing you could do even at a lower level than mine is aoe the low elite PQ mobs, preety fun if your with some cleric who needs it or you get your alt on a laptop or sumthin and plvl them there.

I gotta admit my gear sucks, but its not as bad as some people's.
I'll add the important ones (and the ones I can remember lol).

Robe of spirit eater (3 sockets) +2 2 immac citrine shards
Mystique pants of spirit eater (4 sockets) +2 4 immac citrine shards
Mystique boots of spirit eater (3 sockets) +2 3 immac citrine shards
Sleeves of sea captain (3 sockets) +2 3 immac citrine shards
Crow's cry necklace (or whatever you call it) +2: +5 vit, +5 vit, +4 vit
Dawdler's belt +2: +5 vit, +4 vit
The meteor ring thing from treasure quest: +7 mag +8 vit
Random +4 vit +70 hp or so and + something matk ring (lvl 78)
+4 vit hat with some low citrines
+HP cape with garnets
Endless ambiguity or whatever you spell it +1 or +2 with flaw. sapphire

Thats basically my tanking gear, I always forget most of it because I don't look at the names often.

Attack/healing gear (i'll just add what's changed, whats missing is the same as above)

-6 chan necklace
-6 chan belt
-3 chan rank IV robe
and either my glaives of divinity (because their damage is better than my requiem blade's) or endless ambiguity TT80 sword thingy for more chan when needed.

No idea if thats a long post or not but I hope it helps in some way, I did it in the quick post thing so I have no idea if the stuff's aligned right or whatever.

PS: I don't tell you to copy my build, just that it works perfectly fine for me. Also, my genie's skills are the following: Second wind, tree of protection, absolute domain, cloud eruption, holy path and I think thats about it, if you need to buy time for your squad to rez or heal someone while your tanking, get Feral Concentration (level 79 skill) and you have 10 seconds for them to do whatever. Works good if your going demon because of demon summer sprint, which will anti-stun it.

If anyone actually finds this useful I could even start making videos or take screenshots of my veno (or arcane barb) in action for you to see what I meant by that huuuuuuge (if its even huge) post.
Buh baiii :x