Honestly love seeing things like this. Gems are wild.
I’ve wondered: if I have +threat on a life staff, what kind of threat holding potential do I have?
I made a very Successful INT Tank build - Void Gauntlet Too! (makes tanking REALLY fun and engaging)
Glad you enjoyed it. Let me know if you use it! 
I found the damage you lose is not worth it. I just stay in the ice for the duration 
But yes this will work!
Glad you liked it!
Doesn’t do anything useful unless there is a perk for it. May impact slightly but not enough as pure damage.
great video game defiantly needs more tanks, I’m just wondering if con is to low for like elite bosses out on those chests runs? and if a tank doesn’t need 300 con in some situations?
haven’t reached 60 yet myself but saw a video of giant player trains getting 1 hit
You do not, I explain it in the video too anyone who says you MUST HAVE 300 con is usually not playing optimally with skill but just face rolling keys haha. I run the myrk runs a lot and no issues tanking Hope that helps!
thanks for the answer must have been the chips I was eating and totally missed that part in the video
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Hammer is basically the best as a secondary. It has 3 CC utilities and a heal proc on each skill use (with a perk).
This is basically sword and board build. And you can pretty much add any secondary - dex - str - int - focus as a secondary. For example, light staff with threat + and a/e heals, gulp musket build with traps. CC utilities with a spear build…
For some dungeons absolutely. For others not so much. I carry a mixture of weapons as a tank for situational awareness
Again, “best” is subjective.
well the nice thing about nw is player skill can get more out of a build then what the numbers claim. the hps of that build are a little low for my tastes, and i like tanking with lower then normal hps for the tanker, still tanking in this game is more about timing blocks, generating agro and managing your stamina, so if you do it right, you don’t need 15k hps
looks like a fun build.
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Im actually a healer. When I started out I was trying to figure out which secondary weapon would best suit me since I wanted to be purely support and fell in love with the sword and shield
I began using light armor but switched over to medium. I might switch back to light if they improve the passives on it, unless they give medium stamina regen… Fuck that would be awesome
And you’re not level 60? I’m nearing 600 hours.
Tank with less than 10k hp and talking that he can face tank everything with block (not even a tower shield btw). And you talk about wars? On which planet would anyone pick you for war with this useless build?
Nope, just enjoying the game and not wasting my time on town boards and faction missions and haven’t done depths mission yet.
Just dinged 54 this morning . I got sword up to 19 I’ll probably go hatchet and lifestaff once that is maxed .
Just finished 2 of the three epic armor lines. Might run down to first light and do those quest lines as I have completed all the other City quest but soloing ebonscale has been fun so I’ll go back there once I get my great cleaves quest done there shouldn’t be too many pre 55 quest left
It is actually a tower shield the 580 tower shield looks like a kite shield. And if you watched the video I explain why the health does not matter as much if you know what you are doing.
I get it, other games have conditioned many into thinking “low HP BAD” but in New World you can do a whole lot without needing to sacrifice your DPS by pouring it into CON. Will it be EASIER? NOPE. But if you have the skills to back it up, you can do very well. If however you wanna sit back and just sponge up damage, CON can allow that better. But still not that much for many end game boss fights. And DEF not for PvP.
Most importantly though, why are you so angry?
End game boss fights? Yeah for PvE this is more than enough, PvE is a joke in this game and by no means it is a measuring factor for any build.
The worst part is that anyone here is actually believing this is a real tank build. This is why ruling companies don’t take randoms into invasion and war rosters. Because you come up with useless builds like this one.
And yes, low hp is bad, VERY BAD. 200 CONST perk is the most op perk in const tree and you don’t even take it on a tank. This is riddiculous
If anyone has made any adjustments to this let me know! Always interesting in improving builds
Or just let us know how it went in dungeons.
Should be interesting to see how Void Gauntlet effects this. I feel like it is better in the hands of a healer during all pve scenarios for sure, but it could be useful in wars. It also could make the STR build much more useful with that buff to sword damage. Interesting change up. What do you all think? Would you equip void with your sword and shield or do you think you lose versatility? Maybe good DPS burst? Helps the DPS next to you as well?
Whoa whoa whoa, you have used more than your allotted brain cells while playing this game!
Get back in line and stop being creative!
(Great job, love to see it!)
My mistake. Back to great ax 
Have you made any healing builds since beta?
Jorry good job smart beefy guy