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

Gear Traits:

• Divines: Excellent for most situations due to the increased sustain needed to maintain all uptimes.
• Reinforced: Necessary for hard content where you need to tank enemies.
• Well-Fitted: Useful in trials like vAS+2, where sprinting to stack bosses is essential, or in vCR when tanking Gryphons.

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 Crusher uptime.
• Add Pulls: Consider a Charged Staff with Pulsar to further debuff enemies.

Jewelry Traits:

• Infused: Generally the best option, allowing the Main Tank or Alkosh user to benefit from most synergies.
• Harmony: Useful in high-damage situations, such as Bahsei Hardmode in Rockgrove, where you’ll be in a critical situation and need extra resources. Use Harmony when physically tanking a boss or enemy with high damage; otherwise, use Infused.

Jewellery Enchants:

• Prismatic Cost Reduction: Beneficial for Off Tanks who often maintain more Stamina skills compared to Main Tanks, such as keeping up Powerful Assault with Caltrops or Vigor.
• Magicka Recovery: Usually outperforms other enchants, essential for maintaining buff and debuff uptimes.

• Powerful Assault – This is the most essential Off Tank set, it provides a large group buff but it does require you to cast an Assault skill twice every 15 seconds so it can be quite resource intensive.
• Saxhleel Champion – Very easy set to use that’s good for allowing the Off Tank to use an Ultimate that provides additional benefits or safety 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.
• Pearlescent Ward – Good Off Tank set if it’s not being used by the Main Tank, gives a group DPS buff, gives a group defence buff when people are dead and requires absolutely no micromanagement so it’s just always active even when you die.
• 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.

• 1x Magma Incarnate 1x Spaulder of Ruin – The Spaulder mythic provides a group buff and the 1 piece monster set gives additional recovery to partially counteract the loss from the mythic. Can also use Baron Thirsk in place of Magma
• Archdruid Devyric – If you don’t have enough Necromancer’s or Colossus Ultimates in group then this might be needed to provide Major Vulnerability.
• Encratis’s Behemoth – This is a good group set if your team are using Flame Enchants, Staves and Skills, especially with Dragonknight Damage Dealers in group. It’s also very useful for fights that have a lot of Fire Damage such as Dreadsail Reef 1st boss and vHoF Triplets.
• Nazaray – A good set to use if it’s not being used already, it will extended the duration of negative effects applied to bosses which can be really strong especially when it extends the duration of short duration debuffs such as Minor Brittle or helps to maintain a very high uptime on Major and Minor Vulnerability.
• Nunatak – This can be used when someone in the group is also using Nazaray, when combining the two sets you can get a huge Major Brittle uptime which you should be able to maintain almost 100%. This means you can drop Saxhleel Champion since you can cover the loss of Major Force with this, Major Force is a group buff to Crit where as this works as the opposite where its a enemy debuff effecting increasing Crit received.

• 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 such as PA or Sax.