Guardians of Ember

Guardians of Ember

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FaceTank build Knight/Engineer (How to be IRON HERO)
By DjWiTT
Face Tank Build for Knight
   
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Purpose, strenghts and weaknesses
I`ve made this build for 1 purpose - get to the endgame without my hero dying. Unfortunately I died due to game crash (developers didn`t want to bring my Iron Hero status back :( ). BUT this build and character progression is viable for doing that.

I run through every dungeon same like in videos. On normal of course :P But I didn`t need to worry about dying.

Strong points:
- loads of health, defense, armor, damage reduction,
- no need to worry about stronger mob`s attacks (miasma, martyr, charged etc.)
- on normal difficulty you can stand in almost every boss attack (depends on gear)
- insane aoe dmg
- muchos healing :)
- very fun and different (but viable) way to play

Weak points:
- very low single target dmg - it takes ages to kill bosses (see in video)
- only 1 semi-movement skill - whirlwind to get through monsters, which results in low speed
- no enormous crits popping out when attacking, only many small numbers :(
- well, thats all bad things about it :P


VIDEO:
- part 1 -










- part 2 -
Skills
There are some skills that are essential for this build:

primary attack - Blood Bite - physical dmg + leech + 5 energy recorvery, which helps keep up the spinning from secondary attack. Can be reolaced if you want to.











secondary attack - Bloody Storm - essential early to mid game, and very usefull in late game especialy due to ignoring unit collision. Muchos importante! :P (dont replace)












1st skill - Hurricane Force Field - whirlwind from Engineer`s skill tree. Usefull for dmg and reducing enemy`s armor. Not essiential, can be replaced with some dmg thingy.













2nd skill - Cracked Earthquake Tremor. Low cooldown, low energy cost, nice dmg. But can be replaced if you want.












3rd skill - Unyealding Dedication - low CD, healing skill. Scales up with health pool and block chance.











4th skill - Blade Guard - decreases dmg taken and increase block chance.











Passive 1 - Vengance - main dmg source of this build. Just stay front to the enemy.











Passive 2 - Fearless - HP, armor and healing in one!







Usefull Stuff
This build uses the connection between stats: HP, block chance, defense.

Main stat you want to focus are Health Points, so every node with Health Points Modifier +1% is a must.
Later are nodes with armor +1%.
Third are bonus reistsnce to all +1,5%.
What`s left just punt into block chance

DON`T put too many points in block chance! Basic 15% + 15% from shield, + 4-5% from skill nodes and +6% Blade Guard is enough!

Things that help you get to 60k health:
- treasure cards - early game is almost unnoticeable, but later on every set you find, will help you a lot with your goal.
- runes - of course main focus on HP. Dont throw away useless epic gear - extract runes from it.
- gear with HP enchantment (static stats on gear, not extractable)

- DEF > ATTACK
- The more HP you get the bigger heals you get.
- Remember to upgrade your gear as often as possible - run random dungeon twice or three times to get better gear.
- Don`t rush with progres, try to always be at least same level as zone you are in. If you are too fast just run some dungeons or use Vial of Experience to boost up your levels.
Pictures :)
Don`t Kill me
This is my first attemtp to both writing guides and in recording videos so dont` throw too much hate at me :)

Cheers guys, c ya in game!
3 Comments
reddog000 2 Feb, 2018 @ 1:48am 
Nice Guide. I have been playing for a few months now and my Tank build is totally different than yours. I use a few of the same skills as you but my build is a Knight/Ranger combo. I use a few of the same skills as you but since I am the only Tank in my Guild I had to build for Aggro. I have no card sets or treasure sets yet but that is what I will be doing once I finish the game.

Right now at level 60 I only have 23,000 HP's (not one HP bonus picked in either of my skill trees). I do about the same damage as you but I have %1,100 Aggro, all Resistances between 5,000-6,000, Block Chance at %58.6 and Healing Affinity at 1,500. I die every once in awhile but that is because currently my HP's are too low. By the time I get even half the card and treasure sets I should be pretty much invincible. I was originally going to build my character much like you but when I joined a Guild which had no Tanks my priorities changed :friendship::str:
DjWiTT  [author] 9 Sep, 2017 @ 1:26am 
Hey, stats on this character are very weak, but it was recorded same day I reached max level. After some farming and upgrading gear/runes you will clear really fast. Just pull everything to the boss and turn your face towards enemies :)

Other thing is that this is not a "fastes-build-to-clear-stuff" in the first place, so there are much faster way to farm/clear. But no1 has 100k hp :P
Soldarc 18 Jul, 2017 @ 4:14am 
Ive started out this build but im worried.. isent the damage way to low to do any content in a reasonable time? i get that you wont die.. but my other character has more than 10 times that attack and damage and is "ok" tanky aswell.