TANK SETS

Archdruid Devyric allows you to apply Major Vulnerability for 7 seconds shortly after you perform a heavy, which doesn’t have to be fully charged. Major Vulnerability increases enemies’ damage taken by 10% and the only 2 other reliable sources of it are Turning Tide 5-piece set and Necromancer’s Glacial Colossus ultimate. The set has a cooldown of 15 seconds so theoretically you can provide up to 47% uptime of Major Vulnerability with just that. Major Vulnerability is additive with Minor Vulnerability so in practice it ends up being a 9.5% damage increase, so with the theoretical maximum uptime of 47% we can say that Archdruid Devyric increases damage by 4.5%.

This set is extremely useful, especially if you don’t have a Necromancer in your group to provide the Glacial Colossus ultimate. It performs quite badly in trash packs because the set itself has very buggy targeting and can sometimes fly through moving targets without applying the Major Vulnerability, but it’s quite good against bosses, both in dungeons and in trials.

Obtained from: Earthen Root Enclave Dungeon - Lost Depths DLC

Tremorscale causes your taunts to summon a Duneripper after 1 second which applies a debuff for 15 seconds that reduces enemies’ armor by 8% of your armor value. It has a cooldown of 10 seconds. If you’re at armor cap it’s going to provide 2640 armor penetration which translates to roughly 5.8% damage increase. If you’re using the Puncturing Remedy weapon set, you’re going to get bonus armor right as you proc Tremorscale so the armor penetration value will go up to 3120, which translates to roughly 6.8% damage increase.

It is never the ideal option, as in dungeons it’s more efficient to have your Damage Dealers alter their builds and bring additional penetration on their own (for example by using more Light Armor pieces to trigger the Concentration passive, using 1-piece Monster sets with penetration such as Valkyn Skoria, or being a class with penetration passives, such as Arcanists with their Splintered Secrets) and in trials it’s better to have a Damage Dealer use the Alkosh item set.

But it’s a great option for random groups, because you can’t guarantee what builds your random teammates are going to use, and armor penetration is extremely potent when there is armor left to be penetrated, which is why using Tremorscale in PUG dungeons and trials can be a great option, unless you know for sure that some Damage Dealer is going to use Alkosh.

Obtained from: Volenfell Dungeon - Base Game

Nazaray causes you to extend Major and Minor debuffs on 6 closest enemies within 12 meters by 1 second for every 20 Ultimate points spent whenever you use an ultimate, which means that with 500 ultimate you’ll extend the debuffs by 25 seconds. This effect can only happen once every 30 seconds per target.

Nazaray is a solid option in basically every environment, be it 4 man content, unoptimized trials or optimized trials, though in optimized trials it’s usually used on healers instead of tanks as they can generate way more ultimate with the Pearls of Ehlnofey mythic. Its main purpose is extending the Major Vulnerability debuff which increases enemies’ damage taken by 10% and comes from Necromancer’s Glacial Colossus ultimate, Turning Tide 5-piece set and Archdruid Devyric monster set. It’ll also extend other important buffs like Minor Brittle or Major Maim, which can be kept up without Nazaray , but extending them with Nazaray will give the tank some free GCDs, but this is a side effect rather than its main purpose.

Another situational use for Nazaray is extending Major Brittle provided by the Nunatak monster set. Nunatak provides Major Brittle which increases Critical Damage taken by 20% so it can be a replacement for Major Force, but on its own it has extremely low uptime. This can be fixed by using Nazaray . It works well in phase-based fights, where you have a period of fighting the boss and then a period where a long mechanic happens during which you can generate enough ultimate for Nazaray to extend Major Brittle throughout the fighting phase when it happens again, such as for example all of the Dragon fights in the Sunspire trial.

Obtained from: Shipwright's Regret Dungeon - Ascending Tide DLC

Nunatak causes you to spawn a 6 meter AoE for 6 seconds whenever you deal Frost damage, with a cooldown of 15 seconds. Enemies damaged 4 or more times get afflicted with Major Brittle for 4 seconds, which increases Critical Damage taken by 20%. Since the AoE ticks 7 times we’ll be getting 7 seconds of Major Brittle out of it per proc, so we can achieve up to 47% uptime, which translates to a roughly 4% damage increase, but keep in mind that with Major Brittle and Major Force at the same time you’ll most likely go over the Crit Damage cap.

Because of this Nunatak isn’t being used on its own. It has to be used in combination with Nazaray in order to be worth it. With that combination Nunatak can replace Saxhleel’s Champion in short or phase-based fights. Nunatak has a wind up, so you’ll still want to use Aggressive Horn at the beginning for its Major Force, but after the 10 second Major Force from Aggressive Horn expires you can use Nunatak’s Major Brittle and extend it with Nazaray instead of using an ultimate with Saxhleel’s Champion.

Obtained from: Nunatak Wandering Boss in Imperial City - Memorial District

Encratis's Behemoth grants you Behemoth’s Aura for 12 seconds after you deal Flame damage, with a cooldown of 15 seconds. Allies within this aura take 5% reduced Flame damage and enemies take 5% increased Flame damage.

Dragonknight Damage Dealers will benefit the most from this set, as the huge majority of their damage is Flame type. Other classes will still benefit from it as they’ll deal some Flame damage with Elemental Blockade and Burning procs, but it’s going to be a very small increase. In trash fights however it can be a massive bonus for any class, as the Elemental Rage ultimate is the best option for quick AoE damage for every class.

Encratis's Behemoth can also be useful defensively for any fight with lots of Flame damage type, such as the Arkasis fight in the Stone Garden dungeon or the Flame-Herald Bahsei fight in Rockgrove trial.

You will need to deal Flame damage to proc it and Scalding Rune is usually the best ability for it that’s available for all classes.

Obtained from: Black Drake Villa Dungeon - Flames of Ambition DLC

Lord Warden grants you a 50% chance to spawn a Shadow Orb for 10 seconds whenever you take damage which increases the armor of you and your allies by 3180. It has a cooldown of 10 seconds, so you can get an uptime very close to 100% if you’re constantly taking damage.

Lord Warden can be a great option for increasing your group’s survivability in fights where you can stand close to your group and there isn’t much movement involved, such as the Ansuul the Tormentor fight in Sanity’s Edge trial. The 3180 armor should provide around 6% damage mitigation to your teammates.

Obtained from: Imperial City Prison Dungeon - Base Game

Roksa the Warped grants you up to 310 Health, Stamina and Magicka Recoveries. Its 1-piece bonus grants 70 of all Recoveries and the 2-piece bonus causes you to gain a stack of Darklight every second while in combat, up to a maximum of 30. Each stack of Darklight grants you 8 of all Recoveries.

Roksa is the best defensive option if you’re struggling with sustain in a fight, although it won’t help with your stamina sustain if you’re permablocking, as the Stamina Recovery is paused while blocking.

Obtained from: Bal Sunnar Dungeon - Scribes of Fate DLC

Spaulder of Ruin allows you to crouch to activate a 12-meter Aura of Pride. Up to 6 allies within this aura gain 260 Weapon and Spell Damage, but your Health, Stamina and Magicka Recoveries are reduced by 70 for each target benefitting from this aura, so you will lose 420 recoveries when using it to its full potential. The 260 Weapon and Spell Damage bonus translates to roughly 3.7% damage increase.

Although Spaulder of Ruin is a Mythic, it’s kind of considered a Monster Set in terms of making gear setups, because it goes on the Shoulder piece so you cannot use Spaulder of Ruin and a Monster Set at the same time.

Obtained by digging up these 5 antiquities in Deadlands

	Lead	Source
	Aureal Armor Glaze	Aurig Mireh - Shivering Shrine World Boss in Stonefalls
	Clannfear Leather Strapping	Any Clannfear
	Petrified Daedroth Horn	Taupezu Azzida - The Abomination Cradle World Boss in Deadlands
	Void Alloy Lame Plates	Leyawiin Safeboxes, Blackwood Safeboxes
	Void Alloy Rivets	Any Dremora

Cryptcanon Vestments turns your ultimate ability into Crypt Transfer, which allows you to transfer your ultimate to all of your teammates within 28 meters, divided equally among them. It also passively grants you Minor Heroism, which grants you 1 Ultimate point every 1.5 second. This Crypt Transfer is not considered an ultimate for the sake of sets like Saxhleel’s Champion or War Machine, they do not work together.

Cryptcanon is extremely good in dungeons when you intend to quickly nuke bosses, but it loses effectiveness in longer fights. Allowing your Damage Dealers to quickly use 2 ultimates is much stronger than any other buffing ultimate you could’ve used otherwise, such as Aggressive Horn, Glacial Colossus or Summon Charged Atronach.

In trials Cryptcanon can be useful in phase based fights and even then it’s only in very specific situations. Take Chimera in Sanity’s Edge for example. With the way everything in this fight lines up, the 45 Ultimate everyone gets from Cryptcanon allows your Dragonknights to get 3 Dragonknight Standards per phase, rather than only 2. If the fighting phase was slightly shorter you wouldn’t be able to get 3 Standards even with Cryptcanon, and if it was slighly longer you would be able to get them without Cryptcanon, so Cryptcanon requires very specific circumstances that are almost impossible to predict.

Obtained by digging up these 5 antiquities in Telvanni Peninsula

	Lead	Source
	Ancestor Samite Sash	Daily Reward Coffer in the Telvanni Peninsula zone
	Ancestor Samite Stole	Uzur the All-Seeing Delve Boss in The Disquiet Study Delve
	Ancestor Samite Undershirt	Bal Sunnar dungeon final boss - Matriarch Lladi Telvanni
	Netchbeak Clasps	Treasure Chests in Telvanni Peninsula
	Scrib Chitin Padding	Corlys the Chainmaker - Clamorclap Bowl World Boss in Telvanni Peninsula

Ring of the Wild Hunt increases your movement speed by 15% which increases to 45% out of combat.

It can be a decent option in trash fights or in fights that involve a lot of movement. In order to fit this Mythic in, you’ll have to use two one-barrable sets, such as for example Saxhleel’s Champion and Powerful Assault. If you front bar Saxhleel’s Champion and backbar Powerful Assault, you’ll have 2 free slots on your body and jewelry, in one of which you can slot the Ring of the Wild Hunt Mythic (and in the other one it’s best to use one piece of Armor of the Trainee for the bonus Max Health).

Obtained by digging up these 5 antiquities

	Lead	Dig Zone	Source
	Band of Water	Glenumbra	Public Dungeon Boss in Bad Man’s Hallow
	Charm of the Shapeless	Murkmire	World Bosses or any Boss in Delves in Murkmire
	Face of the Serpent	Grahtwood	Canonreeve Oraneth - Last Boss in Elden Hollow I Dungeon
	Face of the Wolf Beast	Malabal Tor	Any World Boss in Malabal Tor
	Symbol of Y'ffre	Greenshade	Any World Boss in Greenshade

Markyn Ring of Majesty grants you 100 Weapon and Spell Damage and 1157 Armor for every set you are wearing 3 or more pieces of, so you’ll end up getting 200 Weapon and Spell Damage and 2314 Armor from it.

It can be a decent defensive option, especially if you’re not a Nord so you’re missing out on the armor racial and you’re not at the armor cap. In order to fit this Mythic in, you’ll have to use two one-barrable sets, such as for example Saxhleel’s Champion and Powerful Assault. If you front bar Saxhleel’s Champion and backbar Powerful Assault, you’ll have 2 free slots on your body and jewelry, in one of which you can slot the Markyn Ring of Majesty Mythic (and in the other one it’s best to use one piece of Armor of the Trainee for the bonus Max Health).

Obtained by digging up these 5 antiquities in Deadlands

	Lead	Source
	Firescourge Band	Daily Reward Coffer in the Deadlands zone
	Mindcleaver Loop	The Unmaker - Den of the Unmaker World Boss in Deadlands
	Morpholith Shank	Treasure Chests in Coldharbour
	Ruinblood Coil	Trash mobs in The Banished Cells I and The Banished Cells II
	Searing Gem	Daedrat critters in Deadlands

Death Dealer's Fete grants you 2640 Max Health, Max Stamina and Max Magicka after a 1 minute of ramping up. You gain 1 stack of Escalating Fete every 2 seconds while in combat and you lose 1 every 4 seconds while out of combat. Each stack of Escalating Fete grants you 88 Max Health, Max Stamina and Max Magicka.

Death Dealer's Fete can be a decent defensive option in any fight that does not have any mechanics that scale with Max Health. In order to fit this Mythic in, you’ll have to use two one-barrable sets, such as for example Saxhleel’s Champion and Powerful Assault. If you front bar Saxhleel’s Champion and backbar Powerful Assault, you’ll have 2 free slots on your body and jewelry, in one of which you can slot the Death Dealer's Fete Mythic (and in the other one it’s best to use one piece of Armor of the Trainee for the bonus Max Health).

Obtained by digging up these 5 antiquities in Blackwood

	Lead	Source
	Carved Signet Base	Imperial City Upstairs Bosses
	Sturdy Silver Prongs	Dragonstar Arena Final Chest
	Warm Asymmetrical Ruby	Oblivion Portal Final Chest
	Weighted Spiked Bridge	Rewards for the Worthy Mail (PVP Reward)
	Wide Barbed Shank	Anomalies in Craglorn, Nirncrux Mines

Syrabane's Ward grants you 30% additional block mitigation. While blocking you cannot move but your allies within 12 meters also get 30% increased block mitigation and an additional 950 Health Recovery.

It can be a decent defensive option in fights with lots of direct blockable damage that also don’t require you to move while blocking. In order to fit this Mythic in, you’ll have to use two one-barrable sets, such as for example Saxhleel’s Champion and Powerful Assault. If you front bar Saxhleel’s Champion and backbar Powerful Assault, you’ll have 2 free slots on your body and jewelry, in one of which you can slot the Syrabane's Ward Mythic (and in the other one it’s best to use one piece of Armor of the Trainee for the bonus Max Health).

Obtained by digging up these 5 antiquities in Galen and Y'ffelon

	Lead	Source
	Frog Metal Buckle	Blacksmithing Crate from Blacksmithing Writ Dailies
	Indrik-hide Strap	Caanerin - Indrik Frolic World Boss in Summerset
	Iridescent Pearlwater Wash	Fishing in any water in Galen and High Isle
	Rune-scribed Braces	Captain Numirril - Last Boss of Shipwright's Regret Dungeon
	Silverthread Stitching	High Kinlord Rilis - Last Boss of Banished Cells II Dungeon

Puncturing Remedy causes your Puncture (and its morphs - Pierce Armor and Ransack) to heal you for 14% of you're Max Health and grant you armor equal to the heal value for 5 seconds.

It’s a great set to run whenever one of your 5-piece sets can be back-barred, so you can put Puncturing Remedy on your frontbar. The heal is decent and it’s also tied to an ability you would be using anyway so it’ll passively keep your health up as your doing your job - taunting.

The armor’s duration is too short to rely on it, so you should disregard it and try to reach the armor cap without counting it in, as it’s better than casting Puncture every 5 seconds just to keep up your armor, but it can be useful for boosting the Tremorscale’s value.

Obtained from: Dragonstar Arena - Base Game

Void Bash allows you to pull enemies within 12 meters after a 2 seconds delay after you use Power Bash. Pulled enemies are also afflicted with Major Maim for 10 seconds, which reduces enemies damage done by 10%.

It’s the best set to use in dungeon trash packs as it makes stacking enemies much much faster. In trial trash packs it’s not worth it because most of the adds there are already CC immune and they don’t die as fast as dungeon adds so you’ll have enough time to chain the small adds the traditional way.

Obtained from: Vateshran Arena - Markarth DLC

Combining 1 piece of the Armor of the Trainee set and 1 piece of the Druid's Braid set on your one handed weapon and shield can grant you additional 2660 health on your frontbar, which can be extremely useful if you won’t be using Puncture so won’t be able to utilize the Puncturing Remedy set. It can be very good for fights that do not have any mechanics that scale with your Max Health, and it can boost the value of your Scribing damage shields allowing you to shield your teammates better.

Obtained from:

• Armor of the Trainee - Overland in Bal Foyen, Bethnikh, Bleakrock Isle, Khenarthi's Roost and Stros M'Kai / Can be bought from other players
• Druid's Braid - Crafted in High Isle / Can be bought from other players

Defensive Position grants you 2200 Magicka when you reflect or absorb a projectile with Defensive Posture or when you re-cast it while it’s active. If Defensive Posture expires it instead restores 6600 Magicka instead.

Defensive Position can be great for fights with lots of Damage over Time, since Defensive Posture grants you a damage shield and combined with the Defensive Position set it can allow you to sustain spamming some other Magicka costing damage shield, such as for example Impervious Runeward, allowing you to constantly have some damage shield up.

Obtained from: Asylum Sanctorium Trial - Clockwork City DLC

Crushing Wall increases the damage Wall of Elements deals with each tick by 1250.

Since it’s a flat amount, it doesn’t get bogged down by your tank stats and can be a very decent DPS increase when you have a free slot on your backbar.

Obtained from: Maelstrom Arena - Orsinium DLC