Tank - PvE Build

Overview

Class: Tank

Designed for: PvE

Focused on: Tank

Difficulty:

Hard

Strengths

• Good for Group Play
• Difficult to kill
• Good Utility

Weaknesses

• Low Solo DPS

Overview

This PVE Tank build focuses on group play, the scenario where the Tank class is the most important. While solo play when using the Tank class is rather difficult, this class is still very sought after and is the perfect class to play for someone having access to a group of friends willing to conquer AoC content as a group or a guild.

Skills

16

15

24

22

14

23

17

18

8

9

11

5

13

19

12

10

4

6

2

25

21

1

3

7

Equipment

Weapons

Sword

Longbow

Stamina

21

17

7

20

16

6

19

15

5

18

14

4

10

13

3

9

12

2

8

11

1

As a Tank, you rely a whole lot on your blocking and that for investing points into Sustained Guard is an obvious choices to reduce stamina drain while blocking (default key E). Adding Mental Fortification is also helpful, as it lowers the chance of being crowd-controlled (CC’d) while blocking, which can be situationally useful. However, the most important node you want to unlock as soon as possible remains the Empowered Guard as it greatly improves your blocking efficiency.

Once you've unlocked the right side of the Stamina tree, start unlocking the rest with Escape Velocity to boost your movement speed while sprinting in combat (default key C). This becomes especially important later in the game, allowing you to kite mobs while waiting for cooldowns or to escape dangerous situations entirely if needed.

Next, invest in Recuperation Training and Evasive Maneuver to improve your evasion rate while dodging. This also unlocks Springstep, which significantly enhances mobility by increasing the distance you can roll.

Rotations

General PVE Rotation ↴

• This is the main rotation you should use when AOE grinding mobs and playing in groups. However, you can use the same rotation when playing solo.

• Start by pulling mobs using your Longbow, bringing them to your group before using Intimidating Aura to both do damage and also maintain the Stagger debuff. Use Tremoring Bellow to guarantee Stagger before following up with Ground Pound to trip them and allow your team to deal damage while the mobs are tripped. Continue the rotation with Tomahawk as it deals extra damage to tripped targets before using Desolate and Slam to maintain high threat levels and keep the mobs aggroed.

Indomitable Spirit: Use this alongside Shake It Off and Intercept to regain health in a pinch. You can also use Reflect to also negate some of the incoming damage and give your healer some time to heal you back up quickly.

Reflect: Use this whenever the mob channels a hard hitting skill, allowing you to survive where otherwise you could easily die. Once you've gotten Refreshing Reflect, this will also restore your mana, acting as a great way to regain mana.

Aegis: Use this when in group after you make a pull and group mobs together if you lose aggro and party members take the aggro from you and take damage, this will redirect the damage to you and often save your party members from death.

Fortify: Use this only when you have a good amount of Courage stacks. Usually before pulling a big group of mobs.

Wall: Be careful when using this skill as it puts up a shield and can make it awkward for allies.