
Full heavy and sturdy will give you the best sustain and survivability, but 5-1-1 and infused on big pieces is still fine as well. With the armor changes this patch and the CP changes, 5-1-1 and infused on the big pieces lost some value.
Weapons: Absorb Stam front, Crusher back. Jewelry & Weapons (SnB/ice staff) : Akaviri Dragonguard. You can play just fine with the default traits or with a different setup.
NOTE ON JEWELRY TRAITS: These are what work for me. Just throw on a flame glyph, flame skill, or inferno staff.
Encratis’s Behemoth – Great set for magicka groups and easy to proc. Vykosa – Good set to use if you need to temporarily reduce the incoming damage of a boss, such as the breath in vSS or Olms jumping/sending out storms in vAS. Tremorscale – Necessary for stamina-heavy groups due to the powerful penetration debuff it gives. The Major Maim *can* be nice if you time it correctly, but the uptime on the debuff is very short and the cooldown for being affected by it is very long. Lady Thorn – Mainly used as a self-synergy for Alkosh. Really good in situations where you need to block a lot. Best used on a healer now that Blood Altar no longer procs it, but you can still use it as long as you can actively keep up other skills, such as Energy Orb. Symphony of Blades – Great set to help allies’ sustain if you swap in a skill that can heal others. Bloodspawn – Good for ultimate generation and for keeping resistances up.
Morag Tong – Great support set if you have lots of stamina DPS. Worm’s Raiment – Great if you have magicka DPS and/or healers that need help with sustain. Ebon – Great set for supporting your allies, but may not be necessary with how high health is this patch. A little unreliable in specific scenarios but gives great sustain in the long run. Perfected would obviously be best, but non-perfected is just fine. Only source with 100% uptime of Minor Courage (as well as the only source that’s able to proc on a full trial group at once), really easy to proc as a tank, and a really nice spread of stats. With the changes to Alkosh, this will generally be better on a typical tank build if your group needs the penetration. Powerful Assault can be one barred if you’re comfortable keeping it up that way, so this is basically just free healing. A very powerful buff set that’s easy to use and gives you great stats as well. Allows for a longer burst phase from warhorns as well as still giving offensive buffs when you use a defensive ultimate. Gives the same buff as Yolnahkriin at a good enough uptime that allows us to free up that 5 slot set. Necromancer Tank PvE Build – Dungeon Gear