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Overall Stance tank build: Works for all your stance tank builds!

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Introduction

This is a standard Stance Tank Build, for Oro farming, FoW, etc. Anyway, suggest anything you want to add or I should remove, but enjoy I guess

Equipment

Max armor, Platemail, knight, or Glads will work just fine, just make sure to have +2 in strength and tactics, with either runes of stacking helms.

Weapon is any axe, it could be crappy, just at least if it's an axe.

Get a good tactics shield, that addes at least 25+ while enchanted or overall.

Attributes



10 in tactics and strength, +2 in both with runes or stacking helms to make both 12. Heal should be around 8 or 9, whatever floats your boat.

Skills



1.Cyclone Axe

2.Bonittes Defense

3.Gladiators Defense

4.Balanced Stance

5.Disiplined Stance

6.Defensive Stance

7.Purge Conditions

8.Mending

Strategy

Okay, first, cast mending. If you have a bonder on your team, or a prot monk, let them cast enchants on you.

Now, Run to a place where a mob is. Aggro them all and DO NOT back up! Backing up might make eniemes aggro others, and you'll bascially be screwed.

Cast Gladiators Stance, and while this is up, use cyclone axe to get adreniline up. Only use this once, and keep attacking one person. It doesn't matter if you do damage or not, only thing that matters here is adreniline.

Once gladiators drys up, use Bonittes defense or only about 5 seconds or until rest or energy is up.

Cast Disiplined stance, and while using it, cast cyclone again to get up bonittes.

Again, cast bonittes till energy is back up.

Use any other stance, and continue to use cyclone, then bonittes. This is keep a good energy flow. Sometimes you won't need to use it between stance changes.

When you get a condition, use glads or disiplined, and then use it. Remember to always have some type of stance up at all times.

When you come upon an enemy that knocks you down alot, such as tundra's, run in, use glads, then right after glads use balanced. If Balanced runs out before they die, which it most likely will, cast defensive stance, and wait for it to recharge again.

Outro

Hope this helps out a few people. Please, in a polite manner, if this is missing anything crucial skills, or anything, tell me.

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  Solicity on 04/15/06 16:05

nice! as a cuggestion/comment, you could use shield stance instead of defensive/disiplined, then use purge conditions - the stance will not end, unlike bonettis or defensive. lasts for a good age, too :)

  Solicity on 04/15/06 16:05

...make that a suggestion...

once again, nice guide

  Kami No Kei on 04/15/06 16:24

Problem with Shield Stance is that it only works when wearing a shield. For many stance tank situations (FoW, Sorrow's, etc) you're holding an object that draws aggro, and thus you can't wear a shield.

  Megengo on 04/15/06 19:24
 
I prefer Dolyak Signet over Balanced Stance, so that you can always avoid being knocked down while in any of the other stances. The added defense is always useful as well. Great guide though.

  .killjoy on 04/15/06 21:55
 
No reason for mend really..

  Iminluvwit2women on 04/15/06 23:00

no reason for mending??? please enlighten why there is no need for mending? I presume that you might not 3-4 man.


  fallen_disciple on 04/16/06 07:44

call me a noob here...because its probably a noob question...but what exactly does "stacking helms" mean?

  Maglor on 04/16/06 07:48

Cyclone axe can be used while holding something??? Nice guide beside the axe thing...I usually use essence bond with only about 3 stances 1 being glads defense with 3 smiting 2 of which are area of effect...When i go with guild mates ill take another stance or smite for fun instead of rez sig since i know we wont die

  Kami No Kei on 04/16/06 08:20

I think cyclone axe is used at the end when you're aggroing everything w/o the Scepter (while the Vizhier summons the boat). And, of course you need mending. There's no way to get by w/o it at the end. I sometimes come close to dying with mending AND a +8 healing breeze.

  Annoy Mous on 04/16/06 08:47

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call me a noob here...because its probably a noob question...but what exactly does "stacking helms" mean?

It means the +1 you get from certain helms to attributes like Tactics or Strength.

  Im Not A Lemon on 04/16/06 10:13

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I think cyclone axe is used at the end when you're aggroing everything w/o the Scepter (while the Vizhier summons the boat). And, of course you need mending. There's no way to get by w/o it at the end. I sometimes come close to dying with mending AND a +8 healing breeze.


What? thats sanctum cay mission??? This is a guide for stance tanking in a farming group, nothing like solo running sanctum cay.

  blazen on 04/16/06 11:26

It's used for overall, and if we're getting into Oro farming, I made it for the beginning before Sorrows to get to sorrows. From there on your party has the choice to have the gear, which is good and bad. Good since it will only aggro you at all times, and bad since you will have one less source of a stance and less energy regen. Anyway, yeah, stacking helms mean such as +1 to strength, you can't have two strength runes STACKING, to make a added result. Only helms can stack, and it has to have a pre effect, meaning you can't put a sup rune on it and it'll stack with all the other pieces of your armor. I hope that answered a few questions. Also, this is nothing about the Solo Sanctum cay mission, I have no idea how you got that idea, and truly, I don't want to. Probally smoking some J's and rollin doobies in a van down by the river. But anyway, more comments are welcome.

  GStricto on 04/16/06 14:54

Using Gladiator's Defense and immediately following it with Balanced Stance as you suggested is a complete waste. You would be instantly canceling the chance to evade just because you don't want to end up on your ass. Bad move for the team. Doylak Signet as someone posted earlier would be the much better choice.

  Phydeaux on 04/16/06 17:07
 
For clarification, Dolyak Signet is a skill, not a stance, which means Dolyak + Evade Stance of Choice works well.

Also, I would not use Essence Bond, use Balthazar's Spirit and throw a few points into smiting so your adrenaline charges a little faster.

  KaiSwiftblade on 04/16/06 18:18

Has anyone taken into consideration using "I Will Survive!" (shout). It adds health regen for those situations when you have Bleeding or some other condition on you, and will negate most of that damage, so your mending is still giving you health. Please let me know if this is a bad idea or whatever else.

  blazen on 04/16/06 18:37

Kai, No, since most of the time a heal monk and mending will keep you good. PhyDeaux, I never said anything about Bathazars or essence. Neither I suggest really, since almost none of your skills take adreniline, and you'll have enough energy with +1 energy regen and 10-17 second stances.

Gstricto, Glads is only for energy, and balanced will, hence the name, keep you balanced mainly until you can use any other stances.


u only got it half-right  balor on 04/23/06 01:46

for most tanking, in which holding an item is common, adrenaline doesn't work well at all, also i would recommend switch these skills:
take out mending, bonetti's, cyclone axe, and balanced stance
next, put in dolyak sig, remove hex, endure pain, and healing sig
then put all your attribute points into strength and tactics

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