PVE Mage Tank

Armor Types

Gear and Item Set Info

You are going to be running 5 heavy, 1 light, and 1 medium armor, and sword and shield on both bars.

*If you dont have undaunted mettle run 7 heavy.*

Armor:

Traits:

Large Pieces- Infused (Chest, Helm, Pants)
Small Pieces- Divines (Boots, Belt, Gloves, Shoulders)
Sword- Defending
Shield- Reinforced (important to improve this for shield expert passive in Champion Points)

Jewelry- Reduce magicka or Reduced block cost

Pre-Vet:

5x Hist bark
4x Seducer

Vet:

5x Hist Bark (20% dodge chance while blocking)

or

5x Armor Master (only use this set if you have less than 32900 spell and physical res) 50% hard cap 

Remaining 4 pieces***

4x Song of Lamae (spell res, physical res, maxium health) ***survivability
4x Seducer (magicka recovery) ***more sustain

2x Blood Spawn ***survivability
2x Engine Guardian ***more sustain
2x Agility Set ***sword and shield

Jewelry-
3x Endurance (Arcane) ***more sustain
3x Endurance (Heathy) ***more survivability

3x Will Power (Arcane) ***more sustain*
3x Will Power (Healthy) ***more survivability

General Info

After searching for months trying find a decent PVE guide, for Templar tanks, I decided I was going to make my own. This is a guide I am using to do Veteran Dungeons, as well as starting to approach trials.

Skills:

Main bar:

Inner Fire - magicka taunt
Blazing Shield - Shield and AOE
Defensive Posture- Block 5% cost of block 5%
Structure Entropy- 5% heath
Channeled Focus- physical and spell resistance and Magicka recovery
Aggressive Horn- DPS kills bosses

Secondary Bar:

Pierce Armor- melee taunt, *or backup if you run out ofmagicka or just want to apply debuff
Purifying Light- use for melee heal and to proc Prism and Illuminate passives
Breath of Life- Heal
Repentance- Free heal, gains stamina no brainer for Trash pulls
Radiant Oppression or Glory: Execute ***Depends on if heals or damage is needed***
Empowering Sweep- Just used for Piercing Spear passive
Solar Prison- 30% reduce damage ***Situational***

This is just a basic load out... always remember tanking is very situational...

Some fights you will have to do damage in that case:

Puncturing sweeps: great heal and melee dps
Dark Flare: Empower buff and Range dps

Alternative Skills:

Aedric Spear: Luminous Shard (AOE resources for group)
Restoring Light: Extended Ritual (purify and cleanse)
One-Hand and Shield: Heroic Slash (ultimate gain)
Light Armor: Harness Magicka (spell shield)
Medium Armor: Elude (gain major evasion) ***no need using hist bark
Heavy Armor Unstoppable (physical and spell resistance)
Mages Guild: Volcanic Rune (CC 3 sec stun)
Undaunted: Bone Surge (health shield)
Assault: Razor Caltrops (snared enemies, AOE DoT)
 

Trash:

I start every fight by casting Channeled Focus and Blazing Shield. Then either Caltrops or Volcanic Rune, if CC is needed. Next use Inner Fire to taunt the greatest threat, then recast Channeled Focus and Blazing Shield.  ***Always trying to keep my shield up. *** Repentance after each 2 or 3 mobs are killed. 

Boss:

Channeled Focus, Blazing Shield, Inner Fire, Purifying Light.  Recast both buffs and taunt with either use Pierce Armor or Inner Fire. *always keeping block up*

***If you are not using dedicated healer, then swap Defensive Posture for Breath of Life ***

Simple but very effective!!!

Champion Point Tips

***Priorities***
Blessed in Mage (healing)
Block Expert in warrior (reduced block cost)
Magician in Tower (reduced magicka cost)

Apprentice:

Blessed 100

Elfborn 20

Tower:

Warlord: 30

Magician: 80

Lover:

Arcanist: 30

Steed:

Block Expertise: 100

Spell Shield: 20

Lord:

Heavy Armor Focus: 20

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