Shield Tank Sorcerer – Magically Immortal

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Shield Tank Sorcerer – Magically Immortal

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Note: This isn’t the best build of this theory type, although it works really well….. a DK doing a similar setup, shield stacking off of max HP is better, but I had this character available already at champion level so I thought I would make him into a tank, since I won’t be using it for DPS.

The Good:

Can do decent DPS
• Can take lots of punishment
• Something a little different to play with
• Almost indefinite sustain

The Bad:

• Your shield HAVE to be up,.. or else you die.
• Quite a busy rotation, need to keep track of lots of dots & shields

Objective:

To create a magicka Sorcerer Tank that can do decent damage, cc mobs, and take some serious punishment.

Theory:

The Idea here is to stack max magicka as much as possible and max out Bastion in our cp tree so that we can maximize Hardened Ward and Dampen Magic shields. Using the Infernal Guardian Set to help with DPS, as well as running 2 powerful dots.

Mundus Stone:

Atronach

Food:

Blue Health & Magicka

Potions:

Magicka Regen Potion which is less costly to brew, but still lasts the full 45sec. If really out of gold, the cheapy magicka ones will work ok as sustain isn’t too much of an issue with this build.

Armor & Jewelry:

1 Heavy, 1 Medium, 5 Light (with Undaunted Passive, otherwise all light armor until you get Undaunted passive)

There is a bit of flexibility here, as many different sets have max magicka as bonuses, but with the two piece Infernal Guardian helm, everything else should be max magicka enchant, max magicka set bonus and all infused. If you can’t find the exact pieces i’m running, mix and match till everything is max magicka set bonus.

Jewelry enchants should be all magicka cost reduction.

This is the armor & jewelry setup i’m running. All Magicka Enchant & all Infused.

2pc Infernal Guardian Monster Set
• 3pc Spell Power Cure – Infused (or anything with 2 max magicka bonus)
• 3pc Shadow Dancer (or anything with 2 max magicka bonus)
• 2pc willpower (1 ring 1infused shield)
• 2pc Destruction Mastery (or anything with max magicka bonus)

Your shield should look like this:

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Skills:

Sword and Board Bar

1: Pierce Armor

2: Bound Aegis

3: Restraining Prison

4: Dampen Magick

5: Hardened Ward

u: Shooting Star

Destruction Fire Staff Bar

1: Bound Aegis

2: Elemental Blockade

3: Liquid Lightning

4: Inner Fire

5: Hardened Ward

u: Shooting Star

Self Buffed Stats:

Note: My regen isn’t very high, but my cost reduction is. In my experience Cost Reduction > Magicka Regen

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Rotation:

Use only Hardened Ward every 6 seconds unless you need the extra damage mitigation from Dampen Magic. If you need extra damage mitigation, every 4 seconds alternate between the two. During this rotation, you need to taunt the boss or as many mobs as possible while keeping liquid lightning and elemental blockade up. It is quite a time filled rotation and there won’t be a moment when “you have nothing to do”,.. you’ll always be doing something. DO NOT BLOCK unless it is to mitigate a heavy attack or something similar. With mobs, use Restaining prison to stop them in their tracks to make it easier for the DPS to melt right through them. When switching to your back bar, you basically have to reapply hardened ward to make it through the 2 dot rotation, then switch back to main bar and continue with shield stacking.

• This topic was modified 2 days, 7 hours ago by  JKith.