• Pierce Armor – Our main Taunt which also debuff the enemy with Major & Minor Breach and will heal us via the Master Weapons.
• Lotus Fan – AoE Minor Vulnerability, stacks nicely with Turning Tide to provide more damage for your group.
• Leeching Strikes – This is a sustain and healing skill that requires you to perform Light and Heavy attacks to generate both Health and Stamina. Really helps the Nightblade to sustain and is also slotted on the front bar for the Magicka Flood, Soul Siphoner and Transfer passives.
• Dark Cloak – The Nightblade Tanks main healing skill. This is a strong heal over time that scales with Max Health but it also procs the Major Resolve passive and gives Minor Protection making you take less damage. You gain tons more healing when stood still which will suit a Tank quite well.
• Power Bash – This is used simply to proc the Void Bash set.
• Ultimate: Incapacitating Strike / Barrier – Incap will be a good Ultimate if you are using Leeching Strikes well and Light Attacking often. If you are blocking more and not using Light Attacks then Barrier would be a better replacement.

• Inner Rage – This is needed for range taunting enemies so they are attacking you and can be pulled in by the Swarm Mother set.
• Pulsar – This skill is used to proc the Chilled effect on the enemy, when combined with Elemental Blockade it creates an Immobilisation which is something the Nightblade doesn’t have built in but by doing this it gives great access to a method of crowd control that can be used after proccing the Void Bash pull on enemies. You also get AoEs of Minor Mangle, Minor Breach, Minor Brittle and Minor Protection.
• Elemental Blockade – We use this to proc and maintain our back bar weapon enchant but the Ice Staff is also a useful utility for Tanking.
• Mirage – This skill boosts our resistances with Minor Resolve, but you get reduced AoE damage via Minor Evasion.
• Refreshing Path – Really nice skill to give you and your group a speed boost, a heal and more Stamina and Magicka sustain.
• Ultimate: Aggressive Horn – Our main ultimate and extremely useful group buff which increases our max stats and crit damage for our whole group.

Other Skills to use:

• Silver Leash – Slot this if you need a back up chain skill for when Void Bash misses some enemies.
• Clench – When on bosses, switch Inner Rage to Frost Clench for all the extra benefits including guaranteed Chilled effect, Major and Minor Maim and Minor Brittle all combined with this ranged taunt.
• Mass Hysteria – This is not used for the fear but it’s used for the enemy debuff of Major Cowardice which is still applied even if you don’t fear the enemy. This helps reduce the bosses damage to you and your group.
• Power Extraction – This is used also for reducing the boss damage but this time inflicting Minor Cowardice.