The Keeper- Arcanist Tank PVE Build

It’s finally here! The tank you’ve all been waiting for…The KEEPER!

This is an Arcanist tank and are you in for a treat today!

Ever had that one idiot in your group constantly get at you for “your build” (note this is usually a dps player that doesn’t tank) complaining about how you are a “selfish tank” for keeping people alive? Yeah i know, it makes NO sense what so ever, that is flawed logic, because the last time i checked, “saving people” is not selfish. Expecting everyone to do everything FOR you is selfish right?

I digress…The point is, people want to scratch that itch. They want to DO everything because they are told they MUST do everything. Let’s face it, generally speaking it is not possible. There will always be SOMETHING missing on YOUR setup that someone else EXPECTS while never looking at themselves or the other 3-11 people in the room.

It’s all on YOU right? Well while that is technically an incorrect way to look at overall composition, i appreciate people want to cover as many areas as they can. Well this build does SO much all at once…while sacrificing NOTHING!

You can debuff and support buff to your hearts content WITHOUT sacrificing any survival for you or the group what so ever! That’s right, you can do it ALL!

That’s not to say there are not other buffs and bonuses the GROUP cannot bring, but you do have a LOT of the “expected” basics covered and it is incredibly easy to apply! You even have bonuses on tap that people wear entire sets for! Which of course you do not need to. SO we can easily take advantage of other sets, while OTHERS may not be able to.

Example: “That dk tank should be wearing Yolo bro!” (not accurate in the slightest but people DO say it). An entire 5 piece set to give minor courage…yet we have a skill for it! Congratulations, you have 5 slots SPARE while others do not!

We have a LOT of that stuff in this build/class!

This build has a combination of high health and high resistances. This pushes all of it’s health based skills (some skills scale off of higher health much like dps skills off of higher offensive stats) and pushes OVER the resistance cap to apply some much needed debuffing due to scaling of a set!

While your mitigation does NOT improve over the 50% mitigation cap for 33000 resistances, you can go OVER the resistance stat cap in order to boost sets/skills etc if they require it. And we have deliberately done that. Not only is that a major benefit of doing so but if something goes wrong and your forget a buff, it’s not the end of the world for you. All swings and roundabouts but it works! The higher our resistance statistics regardless of mitigation bonuses, the higher the proc from Tremorscale, meaning more resistance debuffing. This has been calculated precisely for the build so the setup variables are important for the sake of optimizing it’s performance. BUT if you have a  couple of off traits or lower qualities, i have allowed for wiggle room!

We can in AOE easily provide Minor Courage, Minor Endurance, Minor Fortitude, Minor Intellect AND a 20second heal from just ONE skill! And that’s without talking about the other 9 with have slotted!

Applying these minor buffs with ONE skill allow for FULL control of Crimson Oath which also (much like tremor scale) removes resistances from targets! Again, calculated carefully for easy application and optimization.

Along side this we have the ability to access our own UNIQUE (first time this has been done outside of Temporary taunts introduced recently for chains) CLASS TAUNT! Yup we can taunt from our own skill line and get loaded passives for doing so! We get to build up the new Arcanist stacking system of power called Crux, and for building it up that helps boost our performance whie we maintain them, at the same time as offering us STRONGER damage shields and heals!

Crux building is basically the ability to utilize skills to stack up 3 ticks so you can then empower a skill or passive to your own benefit. While this takes time generally, and people need to figure it out. This build actually has it on tap by default. I have designed and constructed this setup in such a way that If you TAUNT you get a crux, if you get HIT you get a crux, and due to a buff running if we do DAMAGE (taunt hurts) you get a crux. Basically i can make it so you can build up all 3x max crux in 1 second.

That allows us easy access to stronger skills!

As well as all of the above! We also have the ability to grant ourselves and “OH NO” moment heal! This is a buff that stays with us and if we dip below 50% it will POP and emergency heal us! You can also activate this if it is not present AT low health to take the heal also. BUT during the buff uptime whether you take the heal or not, it provides the group with Minor Resolve! That’s right, YOUR tanky skill, makes OTHERS tanky! No need for Combat Prayer in the group, which means people can utilize other skills (unless they want minor berserk of course).

This setup just with a couple of skills opens up SO many opportunities for composition! All of the basic set in stone expectations of skills and sets are out of the window and choices for YOUR GROUP have been busted wide open!

I haven’t even gotten to the good stuff yet! Did i forget to mention Minor Breach happens for just being hit? Oh well there is that too, technically AOE minor breach is ALSO tied to a 5 piece set normally. We don’t need that!

We give the WHOLE group, Minor Evasion (10% reduction to AOE damage) 24/7 just by applying Arcanist Skills! Our healing skill line buff on our front bar allows for a passive that REDUCES the cost of damage shields and INCREASES their strength…which means?

Our ultimate is both CHEAPER and it is STRONGER! I should probably mention what it does right? Well while you can read it down below for yourself, or infact try it. Basically it is a HUGE damage shield way over 100k for you, which allows you to absorb 60% of all damage. This means that if you get hit for 10k you only take 4k damage…meaning? The damage shield has to take a lot MORE damage before it completely goes away…In the mean time, ANY damage you take IN that shield, throws out a 20-24k damage shield for your group once a second!!! Your group basically cannot die!

But wait there’s more! We are using the Akavari Dragonguard set…so we got the cost down even more!

The build while being able to taunt, chain, immobilize, debuff and all that jazz, can fully protect your entire group! There is a lot more detail and explanation about how it all works effectively IN the video of course, but this is a very exciting time for tanking in the Elder Scrolls Online! Finally something that can quite literally “Do it all!”.

Debuffing, control, buffing, protection!

Here are some important points about the build overall.

• Minor Courage, Minor Intellect, Minor Endurance, Minor Fortitude, Heal over time, from ONE skill!
• Minor Resolve, Minor Protection (for you), Emergency Heal (for you), AOE Immobilize from ONE skill!
• Minor Evasion for the entire group on tap from ANY skill you cast from the Arcanist!
• High health to take advantage of higher performing tanking skills based on stat scaling!
• High resistances (over capped) to have full calculated control over resistance debuffing on target!
• CLASS taunt, allowing for class PASSIVES to contribute towards it!
• Minor Breach for being HIT!
• Massive unmatchable damage shields to the group from a fast building CHEAP ultimate!
• Emergency ultimate on the back bar with the ability to channel heal through it if the group are in trouble!
• While heavy attacking your recovery is REALLY high(not blocking) so your feel like you gain a lot more during those periods for resource management!
• Magicka recovery is insanely high meaning we can utilize our utility skills WAY more often than most!

There is SO much more in the build i could go on about BUT i guess that is what the video is for!
Get hyped and go try it out! You may be surprised!

GOOD LUCK!