Tank advice sought

[Magesty/Hawc/Scaredycat]

I want to reincarnate and build a tank for the first time.
The character I want to use has the following attributes:
All Possible epic lives. I’ve completed all epic reincarnations that you can complete.
Heroic reincarnation Completionist. With extra paladin and sorcerer lives.
Two racial reincarnations.
Three iconic reincarnations, all of them are blade forged.
I have 52 reaper points.
I have lots of legendary gear, but not much raid gear.
All advice welcome on race, class, Action points, destinies, gear, and anything else that would be helpful.
Thank you very much

 

[Deamon81]

Hi I play a First Live Tank but he can tank most Bosses and also the big Dino on the Island. He has 310 AC and 4200 HP as a frist life.
I used a Dwarf and a pure Paladine Build with Dwarf+Sacred Defender + Vanguard. on Destiny the Unyielding Sentinal and Devine Crusader.

Equipment is very Simple. Guardians of the Gates Set + a good Tower Shild and gear to max the Consti and Intimitate

Damage is nothing I can really do so I´m using very Simple a Warhammer like Legendary Echo of Whelm as the Chrit will do AO damage and increase the hate

I think with your number of Past Life and Gear its easy to hit the 8000 HP and 350AC+

 

[Vox]

I want to reincarnate and build a tank for the first time.
The character I want to use has the following attributes:
All Possible epic lives. I’ve completed all epic reincarnations that you can complete.
Heroic reincarnation Completionist. With extra paladin and sorcerer lives.
Two racial reincarnations.
Three iconic reincarnations, all of them are blade forged.
I have 52 reaper points.
I have lots of legendary gear, but not much raid gear.
All advice welcome on race, class, Action points, destinies, gear, and anything else that would be helpful.
Thank you very much

With your past lives, this could be quite fun:

(I've assumed you have racial or universal AP tomes & +8 supreme)

Legendary chimera's crown is probably where I would start gearing, might be a good use of the upcoming MD gear if you can find it. Have something like keylock & INT gear as a swap so you can do traps like a boss while you also tank the raid and off heal the group.

I might go US main tree, EA 3rd core for wings & hamp/SP for boosting your self heals, LD for armour of dusk & hamp & 3rd core PRR

Easy to level tank as well, just wear int gear and use a repeater & harper, inquisitive & harper from 12, reset enhancements at cap.

 

[dur]

Paladin class becomes a great tank. Unless you wanna play a dwarf. Dwarf = Barbarian

 

[Magesty/Hawc/Scaredycat]

Hi I play a First Live Tank but he can tank most Bosses and also the big Dino on the Island. He has 310 AC and 4200 HP as a frist life.
I used a Dwarf and a pure Paladine Build with Dwarf+Sacred Defender + Vanguard. on Destiny the Unyielding Sentinal and Devine Crusader.

Equipment is very Simple. Guardians of the Gates Set + a good Tower Shild and gear to max the Consti and Intimitate

Damage is nothing I can really do so I´m using very Simple a Warhammer like Legendary Echo of Whelm as the Chrit will do AO damage and increase the hate

I think with your number of Past Life and Gear its easy to hit the 8000 HP and 350AC+

Thank you for the advice

 

[Magesty/Hawc/Scaredycat]

With your past lives, this could be quite fun:

(I've assumed you have racial or universal AP tomes & +8 supreme)

Legendary chimera's crown is probably where I would start gearing, might be a good use of the upcoming MD gear if you can find it. Have something like keylock & INT gear as a swap so you can do traps like a boss while you also tank the raid and off heal the group.

I might go US main tree, EA 3rd core for wings & hamp/SP for boosting your self heals, LD for armour of dusk & hamp & 3rd core PRR

Easy to level tank as well, just wear int gear and use a repeater & harper, inquisitive & harper from 12, reset enhancements at cap.

Thank you for the advice

 

[Kyrr]

Thank you for the advice

I would not recommend that build as a tank. A pure paladin would do just well (you can find these under Paladin). 12 cleric 5 paladin 3 artificer loses Death Pact which, if going cleric route, you'd want 15 cleric 5 paladin.

 

[PraetorPlato]

Paladin class becomes a great tank. Unless you wanna play a dwarf. Dwarf = Barbarian

Paladins are actually better dwarf than barb, because barb wants either shifter (for rage benefits) or aasimar (for sacred HP). Pally doesn't need either.

 

[Vox]

I would not recommend that build as a tank. A pure paladin would do just well (you can find these under Paladin). 12 cleric 5 paladin 3 artificer loses Death Pact which, if going cleric route, you'd want 15 cleric 5 paladin.

You are missing the point of the split. (edit, but to be fair, I did not have the AP to maximize it with OP's character)

Thank you for the advice

OP, if you want to be safe just go Aasimar DL/fighter, Dwarf pally, or Shifter Barbarian.


The Generic U68 tank:

Max CON [+ level ups] & intimidate, High CHA, some INT for skills & qualifying for CE if you don't want to rely on tomes.

GoTG + 3pc Vecna (temp. of eyes/gloves, lightning boots) + heart of suulo + insightful sheltering + all the CON gear/augs + devotion & lore item + winter shield +bulwark aug set + PN kukri
[if barb craft animal growth LGS clickies]

Quad raid con fili, nystals x4, technomage x3, fill out relevant set bonuses with more con

Take shield mastery line, CE, toughness x lots, epic toughness, legendary toughness, bulwark of defense, epic fort, deific warding, scion of celestia
[if pally & fighter take quicken for renew but not 100% needed, if fighter take spring attack line, if barb take %DR]

Capstone & t5 in relevant defender tree, 31 in vistani for energy drain immunity & 5th core, 7ap spare for FI MM immunity
[if barb go t5 occult & either capstone occult or ravager, if DL can go t5/capstone ravager & core 5 defender]
[if dwarf take dragonmark feat & allocate at least 12 AP to take greater mark]

US main tree, fury for auto heal, primal for absorb & upgraded shardstorm.

 

[Dom]

Note: do not take combat expertise if you end up going barb or a tank variant that includes druid - combat expertise cannot be used while raged.