Gear Enchants: Prismatic Defense enchants are the best option, boosting Max Magicka, Stamina, and Health, providing over 2000 additional total Max Stats compared to single stat enchants.

Gear Traits:

• Divines: Enhances Magicka Recovery via the Atronach Mundus. Less crucial with Harmony Jewellery due to resource gains from synergies.
• Reinforced: Prioritize this to reach the 33k resistance cap for Main Tanking.
• Sturdy: Useful for beginners sustain but has diminishing returns with excessive block cost reduction.

One-Handed Weapon:

• Traits: Decisive for more Ultimate, Infused to enhance weapon enchant, or Defending for increased resistances.
• Enchants: Absorb Stamina or Magicka for sustain, Hardening for a damage shield, Weakening if not applied by a Healer’s Staff.

Ice Staff:

• Traits: Infused with Crusher enchant is essential. Maintain Frost Blockade to keep 100% Crusher uptime.
• Add Pulls: Consider a Charged Staff with Pulsar to AoE debuff enemies.

Jewellery Traits:

• Harmony: Optimal in trials for significant sustain due to abundant synergies from 11 other players. Ideal for maintaining resources even while blocking.
• Infused: Use in solo tanking scenarios or when synergies are scarce, like Cloudrest Portals or certain phases in Sunspire.

Jewellery Enchants:

• Magicka Recovery: Generally outperforms other enchants, ensuring consistent ability casting.
• Prismatic Cost Reduction: Consider this for Dragonknight Tanks using Stone Giant or classes frequently using Stamina skills with short cooldowns. Don’t use it if you barely use any Stamina costing abilities.

• Turning Tide – Replaces the reliance on having Necromancers using the Colossus Ultimate. When combined with Archdruid or Nazaray monster sets you can keep virtually a 100% Major Vulnerability uptime with one person which is a great group damage boost.
• Pearlescent Ward – Great Main Tank set, gives a group DPS buff, gives a group defense buff when people are dead and requires absolutely no micromanagement so it’s just always active even when you die.
• Claw of Yolnahkriin – Useful when your group is not using an Arcanist with Arcanist’s Domain, otherwise it’s barely useful anymore.
• Crimson Oath’s Rive – Needed for reaching the penetration cap of 18,200. Useful in Medium Armor wearing groups if your group doesn’t have a Damage Dealer using Roar of Alkosh, an Arcanist with Runic Sunder or a Main Tank using Tremorscale.
• Saxhleel Champion – Very easy set to use that’s good for allowing the Main Tank to use a safety Ultimate like Magma Shell or Barrier while still providing the Major Force buff or for extending your Major Force buff duration where you have low uptimes like Asylum Sanctorium.
• Lucent Echoes – Another easy to use set that will provide a good group buff, potentially as a replacement for Elemental Catalyst or used with it in groups who are under the crit cap.

• Archdruid Devyric – Combined with Turning Tide it allows you to reliably solo maintain a 100% uptime of Major Vulnerability.
• Nazaray – Most common Main Tank monster set which increases the duration of debuffs on enemies which is great for long trial boss fights.
• Tremorscale – Only useful if your group are under the penetration cap of 18,200 and are not using the Roar of Alkosh or Crimson Oath’s Rive.

• Puncturing Remedy – Should you have the space to do so, using the Master’s One Hand and Shield can really help with additional survival when you have one gear set that only needs using on one bar.