You will only put 1 point in shield charge but you will max Disruption because it is the best way to kill multiple enemies, at first you stun them and if they are still alive you wipe them =DĬoncussive Blow: This works only with clubs/maces so it will be one of the main skills in end game, but feel free to put some points in it anytime in the game as long as you use a mace that is. Shield Charge & Disruption: Assign this in your right mouse click. A technique that allows shield and weapon to hit simultaneously. They will help you slow and disable your enemy, even deal with multiple enemies (pulverize).
Quick Recovery: The magical skill of this build, this is going to be active at all times in end game, blocking all the incoming damage from mobs and some of the incoming damage from bosses.ĭisable, Pulverise and Shield Smash: Those are trigger skills, they exist in the background and they activate when you attack, as you add more points into those skills, their chance increases as well.
Rally & Synergies: I personally dislike this skill, but it will be one of the main skills for boss runs because of the reflect synergy.Īdrenaline & Synergies: This is gonna be procing all the time in legendary, one of the best skills of Defense definitely, it will help you deal with multiple opponents as well as bosses because it adds damage and speed. Lasts for a short period of time, that’s why you should use it only when needed, mostly for boss runs imo.īattle Awareness & Synergies (Focus,Iron will): Probably your best defensive skill, treasure it! Adds shield block which will be essential for the build as well as some resistances that you dont usually get from items such as freeze resistance or entrapement, very very useful because if you get trapped while fighting multiple opponenes it could be dangerous, even though as i said this build is gonna be super tanky, so no worries. Defense provides so many Trigger skills (skills that activate while you attack or while you are being attacked).Ĭolossus: The boss killer, adds damage and damage absorbtion.
Defense on the other hand is going to make your Guardian hard as a rock while keeping the damage in good levels, even for dealing with multiple opponents, the reflect skill of Guardian will be useful as well. lets also not forget about one of the most powerful debuffs in the game, Plague! And last but not least, the refresh skill which will be useful. Nature will take care of the HP boost with the Heart of Oak, some speed and resistances along with the wolves that will prove a great asset later on in the game. But lets see what these masteries have to provide. Farming should be done slightly in epic and mostly in legendary.īoth masteries provide some good skills so I cannot say with certainty which one of the 2 (Defense/Nature) is the main one, not that it matters though. In normal and epic your main purpose is to familiarize yourself with the skills and the tactics. The build starts to shine later in the game, epic and mostly legendary. If you like playing tanky classes that are extremely hard to take down, then I believe you are going to like this idea. a tank that will not be scared of the rocks of Typhon or the AoE’s of Hades. thus, I will discuss about the making of a powerful tank that has huge and I mean HUGE health (HP) but at the same time has max resistances, a very powerful debuff, reflect, pet buffs, decent damage and a smart tactic along with a brilliant shield method. This forum has some really amazing and well made builds and I have tried some of them out, some builds offer huge damage and some other builds offer “immortality” but as we all know there is no such thing as immortality in Titan Quest, the closest you can get is probably with an immortal haruspex but even that toon has its weakness, dying from AoE attacks or reflect for example, and that’s why I wanted to create a different kind of tank, one that relies on a smarter gameplay that wont get you killed because you received too much reflect or because “dat aoe hit you for 5k damage”. After finishing the whole game with 2 different Guardians without any deaths, some forumers requested me to create a Guardian Guide and seeing as how (surprisingly) this forum has no Guardian guides while there are a lot of people who ask for help with their Guardian, ive decided to create one.