Every skill in this build is chosen to do more than one job.

Instead of separating tanking, damage, and survival into different abilities, each skill layers multiple effects together meaning you’re always applying pressure while still fulfilling your role as a tank.

With the 1-bar setup, Oakensoul provides most of your core buffs, allowing your skill bar to focus entirely on utility, damage, and control without needing to manage additional buff skills or potion-based damage boosts.

Goading Throw
Your primary taunt and a core part of the build.

• Applies a ranged taunt
• Deals direct damage + damage over time
• Procs your weapon enchant
• Applies Major Maim, reducing enemy damage

This gives you a reliable way to control enemies at range while still contributing meaningful damage.

Burning Embers
Your main healing and sustain tool.

• Strong single-target damage over time
• Provides a direct heal + heal over time
• Activates Combustion passive for resource sustain
• Increases flame damage taken via Traumatic Burns

This skill is doing multiple jobs at once, damage, healing, and sustain making it one of the most important abilities in the build.

Chains of Dominance
One of the most important skills in the entire setup.

• Pulls enemies to you (core tank function)
• Deals flame damage and guarantees Burning status
• Applies Major Cowardice (reduces enemy damage output)
• Taunts untaunted enemies
• Grants Minor Brutality to you and your group

The key interaction here is:
When used on CC-immune targets (like bosses), the Magicka cost is fully refunded.

This turns Chains into a free damage skill, while also restoring resources through Combustion making it incredibly efficient in both solo and group play.

Razor Caltrops
Your main AoE debuff and damage tool.

• Applies Major Breach (essential tank debuff)
• Deals AoE damage over time
• Applies a snare to control enemies
• Activates Powerful Assault

This is a core skill for both group support and increasing your own damage output.

Binding Burst
Your primary crowd control tool.

• AoE immobilise for controlling groups
• Applies Minor Breach
• Adds another layer of AoE damage over time

This helps you maintain control in add-heavy fights while ensuring you’re consistently applying damage and debuffs.

Ultimate: Standard of Might

• Increases your damage done and reduces damage taken
• Provides a group buff to Weapon & Spell Damage
• Offers a powerful synergy for additional group damage

This ultimate reinforces both your personal survivability and your group’s damage output, making it the default choice in most situations.

Alternative Ultimate (Solo Focus)

For solo content, you can switch to: Shooting Star (Mages Guild)

• Higher burst damage
• Access to passives that increase sustain
• A better option when you want to push damage over group utility 

Goading Throw
Ranged taunt that also applies Major Maim and deals solid damage, your primary engage and control tool.

Barbed Trap
Long-duration DoT that grants Minor Force and boosts DPS through Fighters Guild passives and Ultimate generation.

Chains of Dominance
Core utility and damage skill. Pulls enemies, applies Burning and Major Cowardice, and taunts untaunted targets. When used on CC-immune enemies (like bosses), the cost is refunded making it a free damage and sustain tool via Combustion. Also grants Minor Brutality to you and your group.

Resolving Vigor (Replaces Caltrops)
Used when Major Breach is sourced elsewhere. Provides strong healing, Minor Resolve, and procs Powerful Assault. Caltrops can still be used during add pulls for AoE Breach.

Power Slam (Void Bash)
Triggers the AoE pull from Void Bash. More efficient than spamming Chains and helps stack enemies quickly while dealing solid damage.

Barrier (Slotted Ultimate)
Not actively used. Slotted for 10% Magicka Recovery via the Magicka Aid passive, very useful for sustain.

Incinerate
Long-duration AoE damage skill that passively grants Major Prophecy & Savagery. Also supports sustain through consistent Burning procs.

Elemental Susceptibility
Applies Major Breach and constantly procs status effects (Burning, Chilled, Concussion). Enables multiple debuffs (Minor Maim, Brittle, Vulnerability, Off Balance) while also supporting sustain. Causes free damage.

Elemental Blockade
Maintains strong Crusher enchant uptime, reducing enemy resistances. Also applies Minor Breach to chilled enemies and provides group utility.

Shatterspike Mantle
Provides Major Resolve while also dealing damage over time. Improves heavy attack sustain through Mountain’s Blessing passive.

Burning Talons (Flex Slot)
AoE immobilise with fire damage and DoT. Great for add control, less useful in single-target boss fights.

Ultimate Choices

Standard of Might
Primary Ultimate. Boosts your damage, reduces damage taken, and increases group Weapon/Spell Damage. Also provides a strong synergy for additional group damage.

Shooting Star (Alternative)
Better for solo content. Adds burst damage, DoT, and Ultimate generation, along with sustain from Mage’s Guild passives.

Flex Skills

Heart of Flame
Provides healing, resource sustain, and AoE burst damage, useful in tougher fights.

Structured Entropy
Strong DoT with healing over time and additional sustain from Mage’s Guild passives. Great for boss fights.

Spiked Bone Shield
Adds a damage shield and reflects damage back to enemies. Also provides a group synergy for extra protection.

Consuming Trap
DoT that restores Health, Magicka, and Stamina on kill. Best used in add-heavy fights for sustain.