Gear for end game pally tank?

[mikarddo]

I am considering making my main (110 reaper points, 4xepic, racial and heroic completionist) into a raid tank but mostly have caster experience and gear.

I am thinking pure paladin but I am open to suggestions. I do not intend to farm LGS gear or clickies.

I am looking for advice on how to gear him up for raid tanking.

 

[PraetorPlato]

What content are you targeting? You have the character power to do anything you want with it (although no LGS is a limitation for super high end content). I’ve been running a first life pure pally tank with increasingly optimized gear and have been pretty happy (r10 quests/r1 new raids or higher skull old raids), although with your past lives and RP, a 17/3 cleric split is probably better up to r4-6 raids or so, at which point pure fighter is better.

Pure paladin is awesome for pugs or mixed groups though. I think Vecna will be a regear for me, but right now, I run 3 piece sharn, 4 piece winter, 5 piece dread. That will likely become 3 sharn/4 winter/4 vecna/3 wild fort.

 

[mikarddo]

What content are you targeting? You have the character power to do anything you want with it (although no LGS is a limitation for super high end content). I’ve been running a first life pure pally tank with increasingly optimized gear and have been pretty happy (r10 quests/r1 new raids or higher skull old raids), although with your past lives and RP, a 17/3 cleric split is probably better up to r4-6 raids or so, at which point pure fighter is better.

Pure paladin is awesome for pugs or mixed groups though. I think Vecna will be a regear for me, but right now, I run 3 piece sharn, 4 piece winter, 5 piece dread. That will likely become 3 sharn/4 winter/4 vecna/3 wild fort.

Thank you for the reply. I did make the pally now and he is working well. R10 quests obviously, no reason for a tank below R7 really, and R1 raids. I am using 6 piece winter, 3 piece sharn and trinket with curse immunity atm - as thats what I had already. Around 7.5k hp, 420prr, 300mrr, 400ac in reaper - so the player skill is likely to be the limiting factor I will probably wait till the new raid before I look into optimizing gear.

 

[PraetorPlato]

Yeah, that's quite nice. PRR seems a little low—I hit 20 more than that on my first lifer—but everything else looks like what I'd expect.

 

[Cashery]

this is what my PDK Pally uses.

7 piece Winter:
Plate of Winter Solstice (Armor)
Icon of Bitterwind (Trinket)
Nocturne Ring (Ring1)
Prince's Gauntlet (Gloves)
Deepsnow Boots (Boots)
Cold Iron bracers (Bracers)
Bulwark of Snow (Shield)
Set Bonus: 30 Artifact Bonus to PRR, +30 Healing Amp, 10% Legendary HP's, +100 Threat, +3 Artifact CON, +15% AC

2 piece Summer:
Bottled Sunlight (Neck)
Prince's Gauntlet (Gloves)
Set Bonus: 30 Artifact Bonus to MRR

2 Piece Spring:
Crown of Butterflies (helm)
Cloak of Spring (Cloak)
Set Bonus: 10% artifact Bonus to Missile Deflection

3 piece Alluring Elocution: +3 Artifact CHA
Collective Sight: Insight Cha +6, Wis +13 (goggles)
Duskbone Ring (ring2)
Lindal's Mighty Belt (Belt)

Weapon: Divinity, the Morninglord's Goal.

 

[PraetorPlato]

Why not swap to a Dino bsword for +2 exceptional con and affirmation?

 

[Cashery]

don't need affirmation... spamming "guard up" in unyielding gives me 700 temp hps every 6 secs, pushing 9k hps in reaper when doing so... the con would be nice.. however..

I like the bypassers on Divinity as I very rarely need to turtle up, like generating threat while swining:
I take Crystal (T2C) and Chaotic (T3C) from Grandmaster
Augment Eye of Mabar (Evil)
Only thing the weapon does not bypass is bludgeon and pierce