Immortal tank

[chookette]

Hi, above all I am not looking to be optimized but just to have fun with a defined perspective.

I'm a little lost with all these changes and I would like your feedback please.

I want to know the tank order that has the greatest potential to be immortal. in other words the tank that will take the longest to kill

[Ysaran]

Ironbreaker

[hogun]

Ironbreaker

Plz let's be serious

Kotbs is the strongest tank , SM and to finish IB

But , IBis the most beautiful and the most interesting to play because of its mechanics and its polivalence.

[ravezaar]

Not IB, not anymore. I would suggest SM on Order

[Ysaran]

He asked about the highest potential to be immortal. IB can get crazy high armor, parry, block and toughness. Kotbs has vigilance, that's true, but it can't have the same avoidance as IB.

P.S. IB is also a lot of fun to play, while Kotbs is boring AF. Can't say about SM, I haven't played it yet

[vanbuinen77]

Shield ib

[tazdingo]

the answer is IB and it's not even close. the idea is to stack seasoned vet, shield master and hardy concession to achieve about ~30% dmg res after a block. thanks to recent changes where you get block from toughness, this is basically 100% of the time even with shield master as your only block investment

then you dump everything into regen and toughness. with the new tactic giving 80 tough you can reach around 1125 tough even with full regen gear which puts you near the softcap after most debuffs

it's actually a pretty fun build because it's so active, ie. you're not just unkillable by default, you have to use your abilities to correctly defend yourself and make it all work. and ib has a lot of abilities

no other tank even comes close, bg looks nice on paper with hardcapped toughness but in reality you die to 1 WL rotation before you even get enough hate to get the terrifying foe buff up

you could try the warlord detaunt proc if you want but i've found it unreliable and you're giving up regen

chance to be crit basically doesn't matter, i've put it into the dmg calculator every which way and no investment into it ever pays off. dps are running around with so much crit than giving them another 10% for free means nothing, and the investment to get it down low enough is too much. don't even bother with futile or ini

[hogun]

very funny
I think you need to know and have played the tanks in question to be able to answer, and from these answers I'm sure that's not the case for everyone.

but I advise you to play IB, it's the most interesting of all. even if it's not the most immortal

[tazdingo]

i have played in all in fact it's the build i've spent years trying to perfect. if we're talking about surviving solo vs a group beating on you what does knight do outside of vigilance, absorb tactic and str debuff? nothing comes close to IB's 100% uptime dmg res and extra tough tactic (and grumble and mutter, when we get it back)

if we're talking about tankiest in regular situations who cares every tank is immortal as long as your healer is alive

[chookette]

thank you for your feedback, I will test ib to see. I therefore wrongly thought that the sm with its absorbs could be in the race