Hey,
So today I decided to try out some tank/dps build variations, in other words, I run a tank build (around 1.6mln) armor, and 13mln shield, that can actually also do a very, VERY decent damage,
here are couple examples of what I've built
All three, are well focused on tanking/dps'ing, all focused on liberty/large shield, and all well suited for all raids/heroic/legendary runs
Mine current 3 builds, first one being bulwark is mainly a tank, that can stand his ground(self heal, revive and deal damage, due to being headshot focused (around 130% hs dmg), mainly good for pure solo, good for team aswell.
Patriot due to patriots buff are more suitably for running in a party, great dmg buff/debuffs for other group members.
3rd one was my 1000 SHD level hunter gear that i used to solo heroic open world with all directives on, back before it wasnt nerfed as it is now, not a tank, but something that aswell stands his ground, and most of the time tops dps chart in the end of heroic mission, can play really aggressive with it, and stay on the frontline most of the time, liberties headshot dmg/healing is great tool for survibality in most situations, my main dps build aswell then it comes to raiding.
So I was thinking is there any other people who enjoys building similar builds that focuses both on dmg/and survibility, and they could share their builds, give suggestions, feedbacks to find that one nice all around good build for raids, or any other endgame content.
There are many, many, many ways to tank. And let me tell you this: Going full tanks (6 armor pieces) its the worst thing you can do. You can easily tank with at least 3 blues (170k armor) and still be able to do something else (eg. do damage).
I have done many legendaries in less than 30 minutes with this build:
---Named murakami knee
---Named RK holster
---Named chest Gila guard (perfect vanguard)
---Fenris with blue mods (if you cant put blue mod the red one is fine)
---Another RK (with armor)
---Another RK
(3 skill tier) (2 blues) (1 red)
Talents: vanguard and Companion (it will be always activate bc of the drone).
Firewall spec with the firewall shield and the healing drone. Weapon: Chamaleon.
Invest in reapair skill and incoming repair (from blue mods). Explosion resist for legendaries. And health is always good. Dont need amor regen since is way better to invest in repair skill. Your heal is much higher than the bleeding from Havies since they nerfed them, so i do not use protection agains status effect.
If you do not have a good RK with armor you can use a second gila guard, becouse Health is really really good for tanks. Also, the extra explosion resist that RK gives is only realy good for legendaries.
With chamaleon you will have a crazy amount of crit chance and crit damage, so with a little invest in those atritbutes you can have 60% crit chance and 100%+ crit damage when the weapon is stacked. This weapon is really good for tanks becouse you need to be in close range and to be shooting all the time (which is exactly what you will be doing.
Your shield will be skill tier 4 so it will last a bit. Of course you cant face take the animies but you can annoy them all the time. If you feel like you are diyng a lot you can put 3 amors piece instead os 2. But i would recomend you to simple get a better positioning.
If you fell like you did a good damage with the build this build that you made imagine with one fenris piece + companion + extra damage from the spec + chamaleon that gives you insane crits. I used to be the main damage in my team. But, of course i only do sustain damage and not burst damage.
This is just an example of how to make a tank build.You can do in many many different ways, but i assure you that going fuill tank is the worst idea, becouse a decoy could be doing much of your work.
Also, you may think that with 2 armor you will die fast...and thats true if you are not using shield. The armor piece is only there to (1) avoid you getting one shot or something like that (2) get few extra seconds to get a good cover before you die (3) increase shield skill tier. There isnt a build that can face tank without a shield.
You can also make a tank build without shield. But you will need extra armor so you can tank from time to time (leadership, protected reload, adrenaline etc). And some sort of healing (skill repair or armor regen). You should be using smg (becouse it needs you 21% crit chance, so you can have a decent crit chance/damage without sacrificing tanks atriubutes and shotguns becouse it has crazy damage without much crit or weapon damage (and becouse the badge tuff set is really good for tanks).
Hope you like it and sorry for the bad english.