Hello. I’m trying to create an Int tank (Ice gauntlet and spear) but I need to choose which gem I´m gonna put in spear, int, or threat gem. If I put int, I can´t make spear skills to taunt enemies. If I put Carnelian gem (threat gem), spear dmg will not scale anymore.
How do I fix that? I really want to go off meta whatever. If I could put a carnelian gem inside my gear and instead of less threat, generate more threat and active taunt skills, I would be glad.
Despised on earrings grants Up to 146% threat and hated on weapons grants another 146% threat.
So technically you could reach about the same threat Level, but without carnelian you wont have taunts.
Spears Vaultkick is propably the worst taunt anyway as its pure single target for 2sec.
Take a look at Rapier, its scaling via INT, Riposte with carnelian gets a 5m 4sec aoe taunt (and a 15-24% rend with sundering riposte) and it also provides movement via Fleche.
So, if a int tanker is doing less dmg, I just need to use more threat items?
Forget about rapier, I don’t want to use other weapon.
I think the only way is use hated/despised perks.
This weapons isnt intended to use for tank (maybe spear as secondary).
My sugestion is to use this combination to a DPS build instead a tank, otherwise u will dont aggro well
Yes you’d want as much threat as possible if you dont want/cant slot carnelians to maintain threat.
But without any taunts (i dont Count Vaultkick as its utterly useless as a taunt) you propably want your group to give you additional time to establish a propper threat-level.
IG doesnt offer any Kind of “tankyness” besides Entombed, no fortify, no weaken, no blocking of projectiles, no additional block stability.
Spear does provide fortify and single target weaken, but thats it.
I guess this could Work somehow for tanking single targets but multiple targets could be problematic.
I’m all for off meta play but IG/spear is not a viable tank setup. Have you tanked in new world before? It’s all about your key taunt abilities: defenders resolve, shockwave, shield bash, etc. In serious pve content (and when others in your party don’t respect taunts) you already have a hard limit on how often you can gather mobs, especially compared to other mmos. Spear is a high dps weapon with great utility (innate rend, weaken and big fortify from gear perks). Yes, it has some carnelian compatibility, but it does not have enough hard taunt to be a main tank weapon on its own.
Int tank with rapier is difficult but doable. Without, its a total nonstarter.
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