Return of Reckoning

Having a hard time finding a tank? Tired of waiting or paying vaste sums of gold for subpar tanks?
Then try this easy, never before seen, 30 quick steps guide, off-tanks will hate you!

*This guide assumes you already know all mechanics, and will just go over the differences between solo and duo tanking.
**Solo tanking BS is not newb or PUG friendly, and should for aforementioned only be done for fun/the challenge or in case you can only find one tank (a lot of people will help out for 50-300g, an option you might consider before soloing ).
***an off tank will add a lot of stability, without necessarily much dps loss, and so a wipe or two caused by the absence of a tank, would quickly equalise any gains from an extra dps.

Team composition & Stats:
LEFT WING

RIGHT WING

MID WING

awesome, thank you

I have solo-tanked BS on my black orc a few times. It's definitely doable and I agree with your recommendations. It all depends on the dps being fast on the detaunt though, so a good team is recommended. I actually like BS more with one tank since it's faster. Most bosses are not very entertaining.

why does this exist, i just thought tanking was naturally easy to play. i actually wondered who a really needed this guide.

This guide in the beginner's section is probably not for very high level chosens in BIS with other high level tanks, who solos BS in premades with ease before coffee...

I made it for fun and since until Tristess post, I hadn't heard of anyone else even thinking it was possible after +25 runs.

And unlike all other dungeons you can solo basically without ever losing aggro this is not the case in BS, your DPS also need to be ready and capable of directly tanking boss without guard.

Right wing is very easy to mono-tank, left wing you can but basically if Taringn'an grab your tank you can be screwed (the healers have to be ready).

Middle wing is very hard on 2 bosses : the one that use napalm (on third napalm you are dead as a tank, even with crossguard it's very hard if timing is not perfect), and last boss can nuke your unguarded dps pretty fast. As a tank, the best way could be avoid getting aggro (you let your guarded dps tank while guarded), stay on his back to not being bumped, and switch guard to the second dps when first is bumped.

space44 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 1:52 am why does this exist, i just thought tanking was naturally easy to play. i actually wondered who a really needed this guide.

Because "officially" Bastion Stair has mechanics designed around 2 tanks.

For the guide:

3rd boss mid wing: if you do the mechanic properly the damage is fine. The boss has an increasing damage buff which can be seen on his list of buffs. Usually a safe point to use a skull is at 80-100%. That will reset the damage buff. With 3 DPS he should be dead before reaching that point again.

5th boss mid wing: For destro, Marauders make excellent emergency off-tanks. If they get aggro then switch to monstrosity to shrug off armour penetration. Combined with good parry it makes the very survivable. The damage from that boss isn't too high as it's more an endurance fight/coordination fight anyway (the spikes come from people attacking when they shouldn't).

Was in a group with a chosen, many month ago, that solo tanked bs. We only had a hard time at last boss mid and then only because choppas like to hit boss when they should not. We made it.

Fenris78 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 25, 2021 1:39 pm Right wing is very easy to mono-tank, left wing you can but basically if Taringn'an grab your tank you can be screwed (the healers have to be ready).

Middle wing is very hard on 2 bosses : the one that use napalm (on third napalm you are dead as a tank, even with crossguard it's very hard if timing is not perfect), and last boss can nuke your unguarded dps pretty fast. As a tank, the best way could be avoid getting aggro (you let your guarded dps tank while guarded), stay on his back to not being bumped, and switch guard to the second dps when first is bumped.

Last boss left wing, 3rd boss right (dog+chosen) and last boss mid are the only ones that are harder if the dps don't know what to do when there's just one tank.
But all are fine following the guide.

3rd boss mid (beserker) is much easier as, as Zomega, said you just need one skull reset since he dies so fast and you don't need to take any guard dmg.

On last boss I have tried standing on side and just guarding, but it's just messy as you end up aggro swapping a lot.
Doing standard method with the dps detaunting while not attacking, etc. is enough to cover while tank runs back.