I am having some questions about what could be better for a sentinel tank. I would be very appreciated if someone could help me with it.
Forge Guard or Paladin? I tend to use Paladin thanks to the Holy Aura basically cause the huge elemental resistances buff and the block chance nodes on the passive tree.
Which offensive skill can you recommend me? I am thinking about going Vengeance 1h + shield but I think that the damage is gonna be pretty low to deal with some big boys.
The last question⌠I am having troubles understanding when to use âIncreased melee damageâ or âIncrease physical damageâ. Whats the main difference between them?
Yeah, sword unless youâre going bleed (axes) or you want to stun stuff (blunts, though 2-handed would be better for that). If you wanted to go hybrid (melee/caster) you could go with a scepter, but either pure melee or pure caster is probably more effective than hybrid (caster should either go wand/shield for defence or staff for offence).
My favorite class/character/skill is Magnus, my Rive/bleed/Paladin. Iâm a die hard melee player. If you want sword and board (or axe and board in my case) look get a good shield with block chance and effectiveness. Sigils has a great node area that increases both per sigil as well as another that increases damage per sigil. And donât neglect a few points in the first nodes in the Forge Guard tree that give you Block Chance! Also, in the Paladin tree be on the lookout for âOn blockâ skills. My Paladin has a block change in the high 70s to low 80s with sigils up so if effectively block 4 out of 5 blows (stretching my stat knowledge a bit) which means âon blockâ abilities are going off all the time.
EDIT: Meant for OP, not you specifically @Llama8. I wish the reply button was reply/reply to Op because I almost always click the reply under the last post NOT the reply at the bottom of the thread.
Yes, block chance is one of my " go to " stat in this tank build.
Any tip on how to improve the damage being 1h shield?
And HP regeneration is any good?
Attack speed & flat added melee damage are your friend (eg, âMarauderâsâ is flat added phys damage as compared to âRendingâ which is % increased melee damage). Early on, flat added damage is probably more useful to you on gear than % increased, attack speed/cast speed is always useful.
The attack speed implicit on melee weapons is multiplicative whereas all other sources of attack speed are additive (so a weapon with 1.2 attack speed is always 20% faster than a weapon with 1 attack speed, regardless of how much attack speed you have from other sources).
If You go with Vengeance, keep your eyes open for Idols with + Damage to Vengeance and Smite. They icrease the basedamage of the skill and will boost your overall damage a lot.
Iâm not overly fond of health regen as a defensive mechanic but that doesnât mean itâs bad in any way. If youâre going Vengeance/Rive/Smite, thereâs aSentinel passive called Time & Faith that gives you 25 hp & 10 mana when you use either of those skills, thatâll keep you going for quite a while as well as provide you with a lot of extra mana to cast/use more expensive skills.
Well, frak, why the hell did nobody ever tell me that?
EDIT: Okay just tried it. Canât seem to get it to work. I click the pencil icon and it gives me the choice to âreply to myselfâ or to a specific post. I replied to a specific post, scrolled up the top to the OP and hit reply and it just duplicated the old post. Not particularly intuitive.
On this note, health leech is great. Youâre attacking so many times per second it goes a long way with sustain. You can get an easy 5 dots in it from the first level of Void Knight nodes, as well as with Rive there is a node that gives you life leech and several others.
The downside of this is you have to be attacking stuff to suck in the life. Beware of DoTs that you canât attack with nothing else around you.
