Due to my group having too many aggressive builds, I thought it might help if I instead use a more tanky build that can withstand damage and draw the enemies to me and let them focus on dealing damage. But I am facing a few problems:
- Bosses seems to be immune to taunting, in fact they seemed to attack those that deals more damage resulting in my character being mostly ignored by bosses.
- Potion recharge by killing, my character lacks damage and therefore unable to charge back potions needed.
- Evasion tanking is not reliable at all, regardless which base character I attempt it ends up focusing on armour/energy shield instead.
I have searched around for suggested Tank builds but those builds focus on being able to survive while hitting the boss and not what I have in mind.
Is there any way to build a tanker that can effectively draw attacks(especially from bosses) to let the damage dealers of the party focus more on doing damage?
Best Answer
You are better off not as a tank but rather a support through curse and aura use.
Curses go a long way to reducing boss damage output. Combine enfeeble with temporal chains for example. You can also add in other damage boosting curses like elemental weakness and vulnerability.
Using auras like determination, discipline and grace you can boost the party members defenses. Add in Heralds that party members aren't already using and get all of the aura mana reserved reductions and effect/radius boosts to increase these effects.
Some unique items are tailored towards being a supportive character. The Victario's items come to mind. Victario's Influence boosts auras as well as significantly decreasing their reservation cost. Arguably the most useful unique for a support character. Victario's Charity Allows you to generate charges for allies and boosts aura radius. Lochtonial Caress generates charges and gives you Conduit which shares charges with party members.
Since these items and other abilities usually gives charges on kill you can link a damaging skill to culling strike to get kills without needing much damage. Of course it won't work when your party members are 1-shotting so you are usually better off focusing on cursing and auras.