DCUO: Complete Tanks Spec & Guide 2018

[@ObsidianChill]

Intro 0:17 Weapon Choice 1:37 White Mod Choices 2:08 Gear Modding 3:58 Trinkets & Artifacts 4:50 ICE TANK Spec & Loadout 6:28 Ice Tank Rotation 10:17 FIRE TANK Spec & Loadout 11:58 Fire Tank Rotation 15:05 EARTH TANK Spec & Loadout 18:48 Earth Tank Rotation 22:05 RAGE TANK Spec & Loadout 25:34 Rage Tank Rotation 31:37 ATOMIC TANK Spec & Loadout 33:33 Atomic Tank Rotation 38:32

[@ToraAnbu]

ObsidianChillDCUO this is by far the best guide ive found on tanks, if the game was more popular you would have 100x more subs by now

[@ObsidianChill]

thank you for the comment. Yea subs would be nice so I reach a larger audience because I can't post on the dcuo forums but its more myself just wanting to pass down my knowledge to new players who people are quick to call trash because they are doing things wrong but its just because they've never needed to learn because the game has changed so much to make it easier over the years

[@elguud7744]

ObsidianChillDCUO Which tank is best at the time?!? I am playing earth but i want to test something new

[@ObsidianChill]

Elguu :D eh best survivability falls with rage, it’s a double edged sword if you end up rage crashing but rage has some good tools available to it without just simply popping all shields

[@vexmythoclast1422]

ObsidianChillDCUO I got a question for atomic dps should i use Core Strength or Extended Supercharge

[@logical1396]

oh yea thanks to you i will come back to this game.. im CR 163 that was the total back in the years, looks like it is 270 something now. Earth Loadout seem to be the same but the black Shield thats new to me.

[@topflow619]

I can’t wait for your in depth videos on all tanks after you finish healers

[@solareiusdeiu]

Fire Tank is good for Healing youself on Solo, Duo and Alert when there is no healer, you can pretty much survive all the instance without Healer role in group. On Raids, you need healers of course :D

[@mistermisanthrope6398]

Every time I come back it's like a brand new game in that the way you play is different. They've really dumbed it down over the years. I thought the GU36 thing was terrible, and then they did the scaling thing that screwed up soloing old content. It's not quite as stupid now as it was, but they killed precision combo powers, and clipping is still pretty much gutted. The Revengencers, and Squad 11 are gone now too. Sheesh.

[@HydroFlame20]

I main mostly my healer and troll I've been waiting for something like this Thanks allot ☺☺👍👍

[@sammyflarez3119]

Great guides man very legit and professional i dare say. Hey i was wondering if you could do PvP videos. Brings more views and subscribers! Boss

[@danne0075]

Great guide as always. Always fun to watch your videos because they explain pretty much everything worth to know. One thing that I would like to ask though is about hard light shield. I am not 100% sure but I am 99.9% sure that hard light shield does not stack with other shields. Now if you did mention this in your video I must have missed it also from what I know this also counts for shields cast by a healer and not only your own shield.

[@ObsidianChill]

In regards to HLS stacking I can't confirm or deny this I have never tested that specifically I can try that later to find out, I know there is a bug that has a chance to occur with Celestial and HLS. If a celestial heal casts blessing and then you summon HLS, HLS will have zero protection, this could be attributed to your stacking assumption, I have clipped HLS with reflect etc before and not paid any attention to see its strength but as far as I know its only with celestial heals that bug occurs.

[@ObsidianChill]

Just a follow-up one of our league tanks mentioned to me about further clarification with HLS, he said it stacks with tank shields and troll shields but doesn't stack with any healer shield except water. So I will see if I can make a future video about testing it then

[@danne0075]

ObsidianChillDCUO tyvm

[@dcuoffendinghabits7949]

Could you explain how Amazonian reflect works, I know you cast it as any other shield but I'm assuming it makes you block and holds you on position of where you casted the power at?

[@ObsidianChill]

Yes you are locked in position until its duration is done, while you are in amazon deflection you will take no damage and cannot die as its the strongest shield at the moment within the game, that doesn't mean its perfect you can get knocked out of amazon deflection and you can be stunned out, it doesn't happen everytime but its still possible for it to happen. Think of it like "blocking" but you take 0 damage.

[@JikyGang]

missed serums

[@LUISPATD]

Cool vid Obsidian, id appreciate if you can help me out, what do you think its better for ice tank, pop a shield and block or rotating shields and never block? Because when you block you lose the deffense buff. And i did watch the part when you are at area 51 and never blocke...is that also viable for elite raids? I would really appreciate an answer.

[@ObsidianChill]

LUISPATD for ice and running fortified assault in your neck it’s better for an ice tank to never block, your def gets higher and you can more easily go for counters on the npcs, the whole time you need to block is an attack that is blockable to get a counter like say the boss was doing a weapon hold combo on you, you can simply block and get the counter instead of taking that unnecessary damage

[@LUISPATD]

ObsidianChillDCUO thank you for your answer, keep up the good work.

[@vexdread3678]

Thanks for the guide. It really helped with my Rage Tank. Can you do an updated Rage DPS Spec/Loadout/Rotation Guide?

[@ObsidianChill]

Lance Polous I plan on making one for rage and the other tank powersets soon

[@TemplarKnight69]

Could you do a 2019 version of this. I'm an ice tank with only 105cr. Also mentioning how to get the trinkets and artifacts would be great thanks love the vids

[@undefeatedforcertain8457]

I'm having difficulty finding a good dps and troll loadout. Could you please do a video explaining what are the prime powers to use. Thank you.

[@solareiusdeiu]

13:00 i Use to Fire Tank hybrid damaging without blocking and it work on endgame raids too. Its hard, it demands concentration, SP and comitment to it. but it is possible with fire :D

[@Sorapis420]

Awesome guide dude :) thanks for the help

[@EMPJUICE]

how do i switch to a tank though my bros?

[@Maurio1996]

Can you test absorb heat with the empowered channeling mod? It’s probably the best mod for fire because you activate fire soul while using it, gives you an extra 5% Defense, and heals you. Tanked the hive raid yesterday without a healer

[@PersonLabeledN0AH]

What percentage of your health do you get when health is fully spec-ed? If you said it in the video, I didn’t catch it.

[@dcuoffendinghabits7949]

What's a good Dom to have for ice tanks? I'm sitting g at iirc 10.5k at cr240 / 370sp. My tank artifact is still around level 3 though

[@Rukingjay]

Can u make a walk through on atomic tanking an battlefield tanking like maybe in deth.? I'm new to tanking

[@shawntooreal5681]

What about for pvp

[@cazcaz8220]

Excellent video

[@dcuoffendinghabits7949]

I know this is a older video, but could you show each tank in a raid when you have free time please?

[@enuffsaid7310]

Great video!

[@hearthstonellarryog3299]

Great video! Do you know of any videos on mental controllers this well thought out?

[@ObsidianChill]

Yes I have one for mental already kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKapfoiGlLyCi9Um27s

[@hearthstonellarryog3299]

ObsidianChillDCUO Perfect, ty!

[@rainmanmarcus7208]

What's your favorite tank

[@gem4392]

Where can i get that breakout trinket?

[@poweradeking4579]

I’m a little confused on something. So during the 8 seconds of severe punishment, should I use the chain move immediately after I use severe punishment to prevent rage crash or do I use the chain after the 8 seconds?

[@ObsidianChill]

always use severe punishment off cooldown but you want to wait to use chain until about 8 oclock on the cooldown or about 60% ish on the cooldown if you use it there you won't crash. You can also listen to when the heart beat speeds up but you want to wait till just past half the cooldown after using severe punishment to use chain.

[@taitan9599]

Very interesting. good job

[@olivierlamalice9346]

Which type D elite mod do you suggest for tanking? I usually use Sure-Footed but I’m wondering if it works at all. I might try Crippling Stance next.

[@ObsidianChill]

I usually run crippling stance just for the stun, the other option that is good is soul link where if you put a pet out like boo or sidekick or if you are earth etc you will transfer damage to the pet. Its not alot just 2% but it at least helps

[@OptimusHighMegaBong]

can u do a viseo of u doing elite raids with each build?

[@ObsidianChill]

OptimusHighMegaBong when I do my tank I depth guides next I certainly will do elite raid videos for all the tanks

[@OptimusHighMegaBong]

@@ObsidianChill that's awesome man . IL definitely stay tuned :)

[@Sn4pOn]

Reignition use for supercharge. I have hit for 74k + with it.

[@ObsidianChill]

DCUO Snap On 74k+ healing with a supercharge or a shield that absorbs 74k + every 30 seconds is the question :) one is reactionary damage where you’ve already taken the damage and the other is preventative damage where you don’t require the healing

[@DamienGGW]

I spec max power with atomic so i'll never die of running out of power

[@ObsidianChill]

yup and the might will contribute to the battle tanking :)

[@imwetlikechocolatemilkbruh9030]

DvB or you can spec hybrid wit power glitch... not that I use that or anything...

[@aaronaustin9814]

Im Wet Like Chocolate Milk Bruh power glitch is patched now

[@Moonshinne]

I’m an ice tank myself shield strength order is hard , Ward , reflect , and if u use deflection than deflection is king

[@ObsidianChill]

you have hardlightshield ranked first? its not the strongest its behind winterward and reflect. HLS is also bugged where if you have a healer shield like celestials blessing etc and you use HLS it will not even apply the HLS as it won't stack with a healer shield. Reflect was better before the revamp but it lost its buff in the changes so winterward is the strongest ice shield atm.

[@Moonshinne]

When tanking terra when I use reflect and she does her very first attack it goes away but when I use hard or Ward when she does that very first attack both of those shields stay up and in hive elite my reflection doesn’t last like Ward or hard but it might be different on test server

[@Moonshinne]

But I’ll just have to test it out and hard will never stack with a healer shield that’s why when it’s group shielding I don’t pop a shield only shatter restraints so my ice armor is still intact

[@DLiXRe]

Chill I'm returning to the game and starting over as a tank. After watching the video I'm still torn in what tank power to try. Any recommendations? Also I know I will be far behind the skill poi t curve so what are some things I should be doing to catch up?

[@ObsidianChill]

DLiXRe the most skill point friendly tank is ice, so if you are worried you can go ice. For a tank that’s a bit more engaging and still very strong you can go rage.

[@DLiXRe]

ObsidianChillDCUO Thank you, I really appreciate the response. I went ahead and started an ice character. I'll take my time kevelling and try to get as many feats done as possible. I may still have a few friends willing to help me get the feats from lower tier content so I'll be trying all of that stuff as well. Maybe I'll have a decent amount of sp in a few months. I was always really bad about farming those

[@josephhernandez2635]

Would you ever do a healing logout guide?

[@ObsidianChill]

after my gadgets one I am planning on doing a guide like this covering some healer loadouts and spec yes. Just need to put some more work into it as I don't often heal :) I can talk about controlling and tanking just off the top of my head just like in this video but healer I need to think about ^_^

[@Moonshinne]

But keep it up with making good content

[@goodtogrow7774]

what about gail instead of sonic? It's a knock down and a semi pull.

[@ObsidianChill]

I still prefer a stun or the quick knock down from frost slam over gale. Gale will only be good if you are trying to knockdown adds from range since frost slam is close range

[@omargallman5600]

Electric dps loadout?

[@impairsosa2663]

I want 240 sp :'[] lmaooo i wanna learn my second role but cant tank as only at 112 sp :P Hard getting it up Solo.

[@ImDopeAFxTrukfiTShit]

I wonder if u can battle tank with rage like u can with earth

[@aaronaustin9814]

cj gray you can my friend metaltier used to top charts as a rage battle tank

[@novasrain2126]

Which one would you say is best?

[@ObsidianChill]

between ice and rage

[@grimmariachi1722]

Thank you

[@richardwerme4917]

which tank do you say is better then the rest and so? :)

[@jamarij5814]

Richard Werme Rn atomic tank is op, that’s what I heard

[@SpectralGloom]

Why do you go with the heal crit chance and magnitude over attack crit chance /mag for earth? Because of totem?

[@ObsidianChill]

Sun Grave I don’t think like a battle tank I take survivability first so for like earth and atomic I don’t take the dps crits but it’s still perfectly viable to do so, the heal crits for earth aren’t gunna make a ton of difference

[@SpectralGloom]

ObsidianChillDCUO I guess what I was asking more specifically is: what abilities are benefiting from heal crit chance/mag as earth tank?

[@ObsidianChill]

Sun Grave soothing sands which is a common power on the loadout, envelop, I won’t say for certain totem does since it’s usually self heals but I believe it falls under that mechanic

[@SpectralGloom]

Thanks man

[@sethbollins8568]

Whts the best tank for low sp?

[@ObsidianChill]

Seth Bollins Ice is the most forgiving tank in terms of skill points being needed as dom scales well with ice and the new focus for tanks is just rotating shields which ice has plenty of

[@topflow619]

What did they did to fire tanking 😱? That tank got nerfed hard,why?It’s a joke at this point and I love fire out all the other tanks and complaining happens and the devs destroy fire 😭😭😭

[@ArnezExcelsior]

I use every power so thanks

[@aaronaustin9814]

Atomic the best looking power in the game

[@shaunking6401]

With fire tanking ... why you spec more into health first than Dom first ??? Dom be more important for tanking ... so why more health than Dom ???

[@ObsidianChill]

Shaun king dom is not that important for fire or rage, for fire all the dom is helping is your 1 shield unless you run hard light shield. Fire relies on its base health buff in addition to the healing so you want to get you base health as high as possible for fire because it’ll be inefficient to spec primarily into dom just like rage

[@shaunking6401]

ObsidianChillDCUO ok cool thanks mate. Just changed from atomic to fire, wasn’t liking atomic. I’ve been rage and it’s good. I’ve tanking don’t like. What artifact you find good for tanking ..? At the moment I’m using the original tanking artifact (what ever it’s called can’t remember of top of head) & the might one, as I thought the more health you have the more might you and other get at same time...

[@ObsidianChill]

Shaun king yea the refactor the health artifact is really the only good one, there is the legionaries sparring ai that gives you immunity on counters but it’s weak for tanks

[@dcinfamousreturns4454]

I need the move you did @25:25

[@valiantstardust3608]

Jackhammer

[@lancemoodie2438]

Which tanking power is the best overall to you?

[@ObsidianChill]

Lance Moodie currently it’s between rage and earth

[@lancemoodie2438]

ObsidianChillDCUO thanks bro

[@lancemoodie2438]

But be honest what makes earth one of the best choices for tanking?

[@ObsidianChill]

The way this content is setup you have continual damage plus spike damage like Tera in Hive or Hive Master/Npcs in Machine so because of the extra defense of earth you are continually taking less overall damage where as with say ice which is typically one of the better tank powersets you have all the environmental damage eating up your shields and you don't have enough for the spike damage. Rage is also just as good, better for multiple adds. Fire and Ice and somewhat Atomic are just not as suited for this type of content that is currently out. Next dlc that may change.

[@lancemoodie2438]

Thanks I appreciate it

[@notquy5376]

What would you say is better, Earth or Atomic

[@ObsidianChill]

For tanking it would be Earth. Atomic is not bad by any means but Earth is stronger and easier to counter with over atomic.

[@masondaman2340]

OK is it just me, or is earth tanking really hard once you hit tier 1? Like in Ace Chemicals my brick's health dropped in about 3 seconds, and that wasnt even on the first sub boss. It was like the sub boss of the first sub boss. The chemoid-dude-thingy. Usually when I hit 30 for the first time - if I grind correctly- I have at least 38 sp. I spec just like you say with my measly amount of sp. Is earth just not self-sufficient without a healer? Or am I doing something wrong?

[@masondaman2340]

Tier 2, assuming I make it that far without deleting my character, is a different story all together.

[@masondaman2340]

And I'm a altoholic by the way... that's why I'm still doing such low content...

[@ObsidianChill]

I wouldn't say you are doing anything wrong its just at that level Brick itself won't be that strong, its just because of your level and stats aren't high enough yet where you can see a noticeable increase in your survivability. Do you use fortify golem and totem in your loadout or where you just using brick?

[@TheArrivalCyberse]

Too power hungry, choose between Atomic splitter and thermochemical, don't use both.

[@Beytman]

Listen this guy and be op huh 😂 good job Chill 🖒

[@felicelupin]

SECOND!

[@Beytman]

The Fairy Beytman!

[@jymymiller]

Wish ice was a good battle tank

[@ObsidianChill]

Jimmy Miller yea :( ice just basically boils down to weapon mastery attacks only

[@yonig4884]

I've never had to block as a fire tank. I wouldn't play if I did. That'd be pathetic

[@ObsidianChill]

so you're saying you've never block countered a npc before?

[@yonig4884]

I use a shield rotation and mods for defense when I'm not blocking. So I do once in a blue moon block but not in turtle style. Meaning powers then block. I use block as a fast counter, mostly attacking one handed. I do agree most people will have to turtle. I just can't. I've been one shot like 2 times ever. And it was max CR raids. If I would have turtled then I wouldn't have been one shot, but I had more fun. Lol. I just don't like the turtle style. Good video though

[@ObsidianChill]

with fortified assault neck fire is getting defense while not blocking so in the past the turtle build was far better with fire but now with the revamp changes its pushed to play that playstyle which is perfectly fine. The only drawback with fire is you are stuck to the same powers and can not really have any variations besides 1 power really.

[@KingNaMean]

lol people be like your paper for a tank i play rage i kill my self 80% of the time becuz i forget the RC effect and it bumbs me out to the point i dont want to play rage nomore lol

[@DANNY41490]

Hey ty , G Job , like u videos , u see the page in www dcuo bloguide , no say this , but like more u guide , i go make u say to see its ok

[@ObsidianChill]

KAPY- MIGUEL dcuobloguide is rarely if ever updated and it’s just random players making loadouts, especially at revamp their guides weren’t good and had to be all changed. There are much more trustworthy guides or videos on the DCUO forums and KZbin then the website bloguide

[@xin4177]

Munitions dps L/O !!!!!!

[@ObsidianChill]

very soon :)

[@ObsidianChill]

his munitions dps rotation is trash lol, he doesn't even show you a single target rotation and does the same on both. Both of the 10s parsers he showed are complete garbage and won't even come close to the rotations I will reveal in my guide this week so GG

[@ObsidianChill]

Bricks Accomplice LMAO you don’t even have Elite Victory, Anti-Monitor or Maximum Absorption and you wanna talk shit about being elite? You are complete trash lol you don’t even have a right to talk about anything. You wanna sit here and tell me nothing is worth your earth elite loadout when you don’t even have 3 of the past elite feats you are complete garbage

[@aaronaustin9814]

Damn it got serious

[@goodtogrow7774]

I use shrap grenade rocket retreat for damage shield then mini nuke then rail guns chain guns and robot sidekick until biggun is ready. Hope it helps.

[@BorisTratar]

Nero is beast and first

[@felicelupin]

DAM YOU!!! D'x

[@BorisTratar]

lol

[@powertoken1050]

King Nero first in what breaking Block button?

[@powertoken1050]

and since we at mother joke when did they find your mother drunkn in Zoo with few animals?

[@powertoken1050]

King Nero And I saw you Tank b4 in Pano E when it drop and Ultra was giving you a beating since your Dad wasn t around so stick 2 DPS Bitch.

[@ImpaleHer]

Stick to playing dps and controller. Only noobs use brick as an earth tank.

[@ObsidianChill]

lol ok they only say that because they just want to do high damage with their jackhammer spam but the pure aftershocks build isn't the highest for survivability its a brick build. When the new dlc comes out you aint gunna see all those earth tanks using aftershocks on the new raids cause they are going to get their shit pushed in.

[@ImpaleHer]

ObsidianChillDCUO aftershock scales way better with the 50% damage reduction.

[@ObsidianChill]

nah not even, all the math has already been done. forums.daybreakgames.com/dcuo/index.php?threads/tank-vs-tank-revamp-edition.292791/#post-4063143

[@ObsidianChill]

also funny when you say damage reduction when that was taken out at revamp and its just a defense percentage increase. Damage absorption was how aftershocks worked before revamp.

[@ImpaleHer]

ObsidianChillDCUO I guess they ruined the game even more mechanically since I quit lol.

[@vegasbaby3669]

Excellent video