When setting up an optimized Dungeon build for tanking, you have multiple gear set options, each providing similar performance benefits to your group. Choose two sets from the list below based on your group’s needs and ensure they do not conflict with the gear sets of other group members.

1. Turning Tide: An amazing set that provides great Major Vulnerability uptime, available for every add pull and offering a 66% uptime on bosses.
2. Vestment of Olorime: A great damage buff set, best used when your group doesn’t have a Healer.
3. Powerful Assault: Secondary to Olorime for its damage buff, this set is effective but requires a lot of micro-management.
4. Pearlescent Ward: Ideal for progression or pick-up groups, it provides a DPS buff and damage reduction if group members die, allowing you to survive and potentially save the group. No micro-management needed, and it offers a 100% guaranteed uptime.
5. Drake’s Rush: Most useful for organized groups, this set provides a higher DPS percentage than Yolnahkriin and is comparable to Powerful Assault, but only if everyone uses their Ultimates on cooldown.
6. Crimson Oath’s Rive: Quite useful for dungeons as it helps reach the penetration cap. It’s good for beginners who are not optimized and beginner tanks who might forget to apply Crusher to bosses.
7. Lucent Echoes: Almost like a Tank version of Elemental Catalyst, this set will increase group crit damage and healing with minimal effort.
8. Claw of Yolnahkriin: Not as common nowadays and fairly average for dungeons. Other sets outperform it, but it’s still usable. Not useful with Oakensoul damage dealers.
9. Saxhleel Champion: A good defensive set that allows you to use Barrier Ultimates for safety while also providing a group DPS buff. It’s also good for Necromancers using the Colossus Ultimate to provide group Major Force simultaneously.
10. War Machine: Not useful for regular groups, but if your group has very high DPS and can burn bosses quickly, it can be good for burst DPS. Only use this set on boss fights.

By carefully selecting and combining these gear sets, you can maximize your tanking effectiveness and enhance your group’s overall performance in dungeon content.

Next, you have a choice of Monster Set depending on your group situation:

1. Archdruid Devyric: This set provides an easy 100% uptime of Major Vulnerability when used with Turning Tide. While it’s not as effective for add pulls, it’s excellent for bosses.
2. Tremorscale: A useful option for groups using Medium Armor, as they are likely to be under the penetration cap.
3. Nazaray: Very effective when combined with Turning Tide/Major Vulnerability, Minor Vulnerability, and Frost Clench/Minor Brittle, offering huge uptimes when timed accurately.
4. Symphony of Blades: If your group lacks a healer, consider using this to help with group sustain, but you’ll also need an AoE healing skill to make the most of it.
5. Engine Guardian: The best option if you need self-sustain.

All of the main gear options for this build can be used on just one bar, so you have the flexibility to use a weapon set for added benefits:

• Puncturing Remedy (Master’s One Hand and Shield): Ideal for boss fights, this set boosts your resistances and provides a burst heal when using Puncture.
• Void Bash (Vateshran One Hand and Shield): Best in slot for all classes during add pulls. It allows you to stack an entire add pull and debuff them with a single button press. This set is fast, efficient, and boosts sustain compared to spamming skills like Silver Leash and Unrelenting Grip.

Mythic Items can sometimes fit into a build, and these are the best options:

• Spaulder of Ruin & 1 piece Magma Incarnate: The primary Mythic worth using. It’s great for add pulls and effective on bosses, though not as good as Archdruid Devyric or Nazaray, and it doesn’t provide the extra penetration that Tremorscale offers if needed.