long term project: tank

[tekkentroop]

Hi my fellow forumites,

In an attack of altitis I bought a 5th character slot and decided to start a tank. I started as Barb for the past life, but the final build (2nd and maybe a 3rd life) will be a human 12/6/2 stalwart fighter/pal/monk, going THF in dps situations and S/B with chimeras fang in tanking situations. With 17 available feats, there are a lot of choices.

Feats I definitely want:
3x THF
3x Dragonmark
Toughness
IC: Slash
Power Attack
Shield Mastery
Improved Shield Mastery
Improved Sunder
Combat Expertise
PL: Barb

Thats 14, leaving 3 feats for
Moar Tougness
Stunning Blow (low tactics DCs)
Weapon Focus/Weapon Spec
maybe PL: Fighter later

What should I do with the last feats? anything I didnt see?

Also, is there any good "budget" gear I should aim for while accumulating the expensive stuff? I wont have any problems with GS (planning to make trip earth HP and Lit2 Greatsword during barb life) and still have some cove gear, and will definitely farm out the key items (Claw Set, Chimeras Fang, maybe eAGA)

[Blank_Zero]

Hi my fellow forumites,

In an attack of altitis I bought a 5th character slot and decided to start a tank. I started as Barb for the past life, but the final build (2nd and maybe a 3rd life) will be a human 12/6/2 stalwart fighter/pal/monk, going THF in dps situations and S/B with chimeras fang in tanking situations. With 17 available feats, there are a lot of choices.

Feats I definitely want:
3x THF
3x Dragonmark
Toughness
IC: Slash
Power Attack
Shield Mastery
Improved Shield Mastery
Improved Sunder
Combat Expertise
PL: Barb

Thats 14, leaving 3 feats for
Moar Tougness
Stunning Blow (low tactics DCs)
Weapon Focus/Weapon Spec
maybe PL: Fighter later

What should I do with the last feats? anything I didnt see?

Also, is there any good "budget" gear I should aim for while accumulating the expensive stuff? I wont have any problems with GS (planning to make trip earth HP and Lit2 Greatsword during barb life) and still have some cove gear, and will definitely farm out the key items (Claw Set, Chimeras Fang, maybe eAGA)

Look up a couple threads to see a good example of a tank.

[Feithlin]

Depending on your acceptable intensity of grinding, you can look at the Walmart tank I posted today, which requires little hard grinding, or the more intensive Sirgog's Iron Defender or Shade's tank.

There are also a lot of older great tank builds, which would only require some adjustments:
* QuickNdirty
* Cannon Fodder
* Jaerlach, Defender of Siberys
* The Riott, original AC intimitank
* Big Rock Candy the Mountain
* Decimas, TWF Khopesh hate tank
* Tharashk Champion
* and my own tank, Nassim, who has somewhat changed since I posted him.