since s/s guard has agro ability's as their main agro, lacking a shield is not crucial ^^
but if you want gear for polearm tank, i suggest you pick LL helm + pants and tiger chest. or fort helm
Ye, BD hands and head (for magical/hybrid bosses) are very good for poletanking, Combined with tiger chest, LL hate legs, LL hate head/Ardashir one (if you don't need prot) as has been said before.
Expert Shield of the Risen opener.
Don't get khitai stuff for a guard.critigation is so overrated I honestly don't feel any difference whatsoever in my full khitai LL hate purps and my full tier 3... in fact I prefer my full tier 3.
Only works on full khit purps with a crafted t3 pole and above, anything below...and s&s affords better miti and aggro.
Are you talking about tanking Khitai dungeons - and specifically Den of Crowmen and Paikang? If not ... then you are right and Khitai gear is pointless for Guards.
I use T1 chest and Polearm (smalls T3, rest t2) and tanked T3 last night with uber geared mega tanks ... and had ZERO problems getting or keeping aggro or survival for that matter. + I play my Guard so rarely now, really ought to suck at it.
Last edited by Invino; 8th April 2013 at 15:02.
Just checked the pics I've made for Black Dragons progress and on all T3,5+ bosses we killed (Archfiend, Zaal, Sheng, Basilisk and Imp) the main tank was poleguard.
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