Tank specialisation · Tier S in PvP, 0.2% of the sample
A complete live guide built from rated Battle.net profiles: bracket-specific talents, PvP talents, gear, gems, enchantments, statistics and importable builds. PvE raid casts are never presented as PvP advice.
Secondary stat split across the 1 best-geared synced characters. Averaged per player, so one heavily geared character cannot define the answer for everyone.
1
Synced RBG players
764
Average rating sampled
764
Highest rating sampled
The three dedicated PvP slots, measured from Battle.net profiles.
All enemies within 8 yards slowly decay, losing up to 3% of their max health every 2 sec. Max 5 stacks. Lasts 6 sec.
1 players
Reduces the cooldown of Dancing Rune Weapon by 50% and its duration by 25%.
1 players
Anti-Magic Shell is now usable on allies and its cooldown is reduced by 10 sec.
1 players
Common high-rated choices grouped by purpose. This is a PvP toolkit, not a fake raid rotation.
Places an Anti-Magic Zone for 6 sec, reducing the magic damage taken by party or raid members by 15%.
While you are within your Death and Decay, your physical damage taken is reduced by 8% and your chance to gain Vampiric Strike is increased by 5%.
Top two choices per slot among the highest-rated hydrated profiles.
Back
Cloak of the Restless Tribes
100% equipped · 308 ilvl
Chest
Baleful Grave-Knight's Breastplate
100% equipped · 298 ilvl
Feet
Spellbreaker's March
100% equipped · 285 ilvl
Only 1 synced character play this specialisation so far, which is too few to report pick rates from.
A percentage drawn from a handful of players is noise wearing the costume of data, and a reader cannot tell the difference. This fills in as the background sync works through the ladder.
Parrying an attack grants you a charge of Bloodied Blade, increasing your Strength by 0.5%, up to 4.0% for 15 sec. At 8 stacks, your next parry consumes all charges to unleash a Heart Strike at 300% effectiveness, and increases your Strength by 10% for 6 sec.
While Blood Shield is active, you deal 8% increased damage and damage taken is reduced by 4%.
Heart Strike has a chance to make your next Blood Boil empowered, dealing 50% increased damage and echoing after 3 sec.
Reduces the cooldown of Anti-Magic Shell by 20 sec and increases its duration and amount absorbed by 40%.
Deals 7,615 Shadow damage and infects all enemies within 10 yds with Blood Plague. Blood Plague A shadowy disease that drains 15,298 health from the target over 24 sec.
When you fall below 30% health you drain 5,548 health from nearby enemies, the damage you take is reduced by 10% and your Death Strike cost is reduced by 10 for 8 sec. Can only occur every 2 min.
Icebound Fortitude reduces all damage you take by up to an additional 20% based on your missing health. Killing an enemy that yields experience or honor reduces the cooldown of Icebound Fortitude by 3 sec.
Focuses dark power into a strike that deals 19,045 Physical damage and heals you for 24.15% of all damage taken in the last 5 sec, minimum 8.5% of maximum health.
Targets in a cone in front of you are blinded, causing them to wander disoriented for 5 sec. Damage may cancel the effect. When Blinding Sleet ends, enemies are slowed by 50% for 6 sec.
Successfully interrupting an enemy with Mind Freeze grants 10 Runic Power and reduces its cooldown by 3 sec.
Shadowy tendrils coil around all enemies within 15 yards of a hostile or friendly target, pulling them to the target's location and Silencing them for 3 sec.
Death and Decay reduces the movement speed of enemies within its area by 90%, decaying by 10% every sec.
Instantly strike the target and 1 other nearby enemy, causing 11,811 Physical damage, and reducing enemies' movement speed by 20% for 8 sec, plus 2 Runic Power per additional enemy struck.
Hands
Baleful Grave-Knight's Deathgrips
100% equipped · 308 ilvl
Head
Pledgebearer's Mask
100% equipped · 295 ilvl
Legs
Legplates of Charged Duality
100% equipped · 292 ilvl
Main Hand
Geti'ikku, Cut of Death
100% equipped · 308 ilvl
Neck
Thalassian Competitor's Amulet
100% equipped · 292 ilvl
Ring 1
Thalassian Competitor's Signet
100% equipped · 292 ilvl
Ring 2
Thalassian Competitor's Signet
100% equipped · 292 ilvl
Shirt
Fashionable Undershirt
100% equipped · 1 ilvl
Shoulders
Pauldrons of the Great Unifier
100% equipped · 295 ilvl
Trinket 1
Merektha's Fang
100% equipped · 311 ilvl
Trinket 2
Blazebinder's Hoof
100% equipped · 311 ilvl
Waist
Sand-Scoured Greatbelt
100% equipped · 298 ilvl
Wrist
Overseer's Vambraces
100% equipped · 298 ilvl