I was the first person to clear an m10 as a 5 con light tank. I was doing it back when people didn’t think you could tank in light, let alone with no con, and sharing full videos of it.
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Tanking is not about having high health. Your health doesn’t really matter, unless you’re making mistakes and eating damage. Having high health is great in two scenarios only:
- War, and you’re a point tank, so you’re running 500 con.
- PvE content, and you’re new to tanking or the current dungeon, and you’re learning it, so you may need the extra health to survive the technical failures you’re making.
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Eating damage doesn’t generate threat.
Blocking attacks and hurting enemies generates threat.
If your con is too high, your ability to generate threat through attacks is greatly-diminished, and you are forced to rely on taunts and blocking.
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If you’ve mastered the content or can simply play masterfully, that extra con isn’t necessary; if you dodge at the right times, block at the right times, and attack at the right times, you can tank with no con, at any armor level.
A tank is simply the person who holds threat and absorbs the damage. Run only as much health as you need to; the less con you have, the easier it will be for the healer to top you off and the less work maintaining your lividity it will be for the healer.
In PvE, you want to be able to assign as much attribute points to non con as you can, to min max your runs.
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When I run anti-Paladin Tank, I role with SnS/VG, with 300 str, 150 dex, 50 int, 5 con in light. If I’m a dps, I do 250 str and 200 dex, instead.
Fortifying shield rush on the shield for 33%.
Defiant Stance (or Leaping if DPS)
Reverse Stab, Shield Rush
The only thing to remember if you are trying low con is that some ultimate attacks when not dodged will one shot you if you have no fortify active.
You can see my informative build videos and some of the runs at twitch.tv/exskyelighter