BEGINNER DRAGONKNIGHT TANK GUIDE

ADDITIONAL INFO:

• Use the Taunt, Sage's Remedy and Maim combination on your Shield Throw
• Use Pierce Armor instead of Shield Throw and Destructive Clench instead of Elemental Susceptibility if you don't have access to Scribing
• Stone Giant provides around 4% damage increase but it can be dangerous to use - it has a cast time during which you cannot block and it costs stamina, which might ruin your stamina sustain and prevent you from blocking entirely. It can also be applied by a Dragonknight Damage Dealer instead, in which case you don't need to use it
• If you want safety you can replace Stone Giant with Soul Burst, Defensive Stance or Revealing Flare
• If you end up using Soul Burst you should use the Damage Shield, Crusader's Defiance and Courage combination on it
• Use the Damage Shield, Gladiator's Tenacity and Intellect and Endurance combination on your Ulfsild's Contingency
• Use Defensive Stance, Revealing Flare, Engulfing Flames or Heroic Slash instead of Ulfsild's Contingency if you don't have access to Scribing
• Temporal Guard ultimate isn't meant to be cast, it's there to passively grant you Minor Protection, reducing your damage taken by 5%. Magma Shell makes you almost immortal for 12 seconds and is another great defensive ultimate. They're both defensive ultimates and the choice here is between passively making your survival easier with Temporal Guard's damage reduction or having access to an emergency button with Magma Shell
• Hardened Armor is your source of Major Resolve and a very strong and cheap damage shield. In fights where you don't need damage shields (fights with primarily direct blockable damage and very few or no DoTs) you can use Balance instead to massively improve your magicka sustain
• Use the Pull, Druid's Resurgence and Cowardice combination on your Wield Soul
• Use Unrelenting Grip instead of Wield Soul if you don't have access to Scribing
• You will have to slot Crushing Shock for fights that require ranged interrupts, such as Thurvokun in Fang Lair dungeon or Ansuul in Sanity's Edge trial
• You will have to slot Immovable for fights that require lots of block mitigation, such as Archdruid Devyric in Earthen Root Enclave dungeon or Xalvakka in Rockgrove trial.

Majority of the times you should put all your points into Health. However you need your Max Stamina to be higher than your Max Magicka, because the Combustion synergy restores your dominant resource and you want it to be Stamina. Because of that, you might have to put some attribute points into Stamina if you have passives (such as for example the Gift of Magnus racial) or item set bonuses (such as for example 1-piece bonus of Encratis's Behemoth) that increase your Max Magicka. Put just enough points to make your Max Stamina higher than your Max Magicka, and then put the rest into Health.