Strongest tank in the game 3.4

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xMustard wrote:

personally, the "tankiest" i've felt when playing any build i've tried, is a raider.
i highly prefer damage avoidance over damage mitigation. you can also get as much mitigation as you want while stacking damage avoidance.

damage avoidance being evasion, dodge, block, spell block, spell dodge. this has significant benefits. you will not be effected by on-hit effects, such as stun, bleed, poison, elemental ailments and the like. you will not take those bunch of hits in a row which is commonly known as being "one-shot" (but isn't actually just one hit). you'll have time to regen, pot, leech your way back up to full life in between hits.

so raider is easily the best for this because of avatar of the chase, which gives you 25% more evasion vs attacks and projectiles.
i like to play a molten strike raider, because molten strike is very powerful. ngamahu's is the ez cheap weapon of choice, but you can do w/e you want (including crit variants).

i know you're SSF, and honestly a weapon doesn't matter, but if you do get a ngamahu's its really beneficial because you can socket support gems for your molten burst, such as combustion (-19% fire res for your molten strike), blind, maim, culling, etc.

anyway the build is essentially go molten strike and use an elder helmet for a 6L. this frees up your chest slot so you can use a kaom's for pushing hard content or QoTF for zoom zoom mapping. thats essentially it.

requirements for this is to use grace aura and run a jade flask of reflexes. everything else is flexible. what skill you want to use, what weapons you want to use, w/e. you can do it as a bow char, melee char, w/e you want.

i personally like molten strike because with ngamahus i can pretty easily get 3m shaper dps while having such high attack avoidance and decent spell avoidance. i do usually like to use atziri's step for more spell avoidance, as its decent life and movement speed, and cheap and easy to get.
since you need to run grace for base evasion, you also might as well run vaal grace to cap out that dodge in dire times.

in incursion my build had 7200 life. so i had 7200 life, 80% evasion, 75% dodge, 75% spell dodge, and perma blind. i was pretty tanky, as in not dying. even if i took a hit i wouldn't actually be one-hit, so i'd leech/regen/pot back to full with no issues.
the biggest thing is your nerves. you need to not really be phased by taking half your hp damage in one hit.

if you play melee you can easily have 100% uptime on fortify, and now with instant warcries its pretty easy to have full endurance charges as well. you can add any other damage mitigation you want too, especially tailored to any fight you specifically want.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Darkness stacks... so you can't just sit in it no matter how much regen you have.

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Hiryuu42 wrote:

I'm running a LGOH Molten Strike Jugg this season, currently running around with a Great White Claw. Easily my best and favorite melee character yet.

Jugg can't be stunned or slowed. LGOH isn't impacted by map mods or damage dealt and has no cap or delay. Molten Strike (plus Ancestral Call) hits lots of enemies.

It doesn't just allow you to dive into a pile of enemies; it demands it. As long as there's stuff to hit, any damage that doesn't one-shot you is immediately erased.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Darkness stacks... so you can't just sit in it no matter how much regen you have.