The Catalyst. Pure Fighter Epic Tank

[count_spicoli]

Why not use ac for anything under epic tanking? Just gear swap for epic. My stalwart has 92 ac which allows for anything under epic to not even hit me including elite horoth. For a slight decrease in str and con you can get dex raised up for increase in reflex save as well as ac bonus. And I went fvs for buffing. And healing myself as cha is the needed stat for fvs dilly allowing me to dump wisdom as I did not have +3 tome for that.. other than that the build looks real strong for tanking epics.

[count_spicoli]

Also I use the full human verstility line since it gives so many amazing bonus form +30% damage bonus which I use in dps mode to +5 to saves, ac or to hit. Hard for me to live without it.

[Blue_wizards]

STARTING STATS:
Wis :10
Supreme +3 tome used.
20% Half Elf improved recovery (Monk dilettante)

Can you get a feat swap at level 11 when the +3 is applied? because of the required 13 wisdom, just wondering if the wisdom is applied at the feat swap because its a level one feat or w/e.

Yes, you can swap the dilli feat later on after leveling pass 11 or at cap.
Using pally dilli for leveling up is actually pretty nice and then when you cap and get your epic gear you can respec to monk dilli. That's what i did

[Blue_wizards]

Why not use ac for anything under epic tanking? Just gear swap for epic. My stalwart has 92 ac which allows for anything under epic to not even hit me including elite horoth. For a slight decrease in str and con you can get dex raised up for increase in reflex save as well as ac bonus. And I went fvs for buffing. And healing myself as cha is the needed stat for fvs dilly allowing me to dump wisdom as I did not have +3 tome for that.. other than that the build looks real strong for tanking epics.

AC is a lot of fun, some people are addicted to it however it comes at a price. Even though ac comes mostly from gear you still have to spec for it in order to really get the meaninful numbers.

My Idea, and you may or may not like it, is to fully spec for the hardest content meaning epics. Get your toon optimized for any epic (which also requires considerbale str since some epic bosses have very high ac) and rely on a lot of hp, heal amp and threat in order do the job on non epic as well.

Sure it's nice to see the healers sp bars 80%-90% full at the end of the raid when you have an ac tank but if the same healers can still have 70%-80% full sp and only use scrolls to keep you up then that's nearly as good IMO. With over 1k hp, heal scrolls that hit you for over 400 hp, 25% damage mitigation and 27 DR no healer will complain about your performance and you will still enable the epicly geared heavy hitters do their worst.

[count_spicoli]

fair enough blue and your right most healers would not cry about that at all. I do get a kick out of telling healer to blow sp dp'ing blade barriering and if so desired beat on horoth from behind because I won't need you much. But that is great build you have th3ere and will use some of it for my epic tanking. Now if they really are doing something with ac to make ac viable past 20 then I will be very excited but I won't hold my breath.

[Timewaster]

Love the build - have one on Ghallanda (almost fully geared). But the legendary dreadnought ED does not seem the obvious choice for the build. The unyielding sentinel looks like a much better fit, but I am not thrilled about having to progress through 4 levels of grandmaster of flowers to get there. Wondering what others using this build are doing re: EDs.

[Osharan_Tregarth]

Love the build - have one on Ghallanda (almost fully geared). But the legendary dreadnought ED does not seem the obvious choice for the build. The unyielding sentinel looks like a much better fit, but I am not thrilled about having to progress through 4 levels of grandmaster of flowers to get there. Wondering what others using this build are doing re: EDs.

TR'ing into a 6 paladin/6 12 fighter before picking your first destiny, and then getting sentinel.

[Timewaster]

TR'ing into a 6 paladin/6 12 fighter before picking your first destiny, and then getting sentinel.

Thought of that, but need 18 levels of ftr for Stalwart Defender III.

[Dangelus]

I crumbled Levelled 4 of LD, Took GMoF And Keyed to Sentinal lol, Enjoying it much more though.

[Osharan_Tregarth]

Thought of that, but need 18 levels of ftr for Stalwart Defender III.

Ya. For this "plan" to work, you'd need to tr/serial lr back to a fighter again. Before picking your first destiny line.