Fresh 60 Help.

[Seipheris]

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Thanks for the quick reply, good to know i'm already on the right path for rotations, just have to learn when to combo in Royal Authority at 60.

Any recommendations on how to farm gear to stay relevant as a tank?

[Februs]

Thanks for the quick reply, good to know i'm already on the right path for rotations, just have to learn when to combo in Royal Authority at 60.

This widely depends on the circumstances and your gear level. If you're still under-geared, then enmity can be a challenge for Pld, because they have the lowest threat gen out of the three tanks. Once you are geared up, however, you'll find that you can take some more liberties with your combos. They typical opener for a Pld (for bosses) is usually something like this:

(in Shield Oath) Shield Lob > Fight or Flight > Circle of Scorn > Fast Blade > Savage Blade > Rage of Halone > Fast Blade > Riot Blade > Goring Blade > etc

From here, what you do depends on what you need. If you have a sufficient lead on enmity, then you can transfer into Royal Authority combos right away. If not, then you can follow it up with one more RoH combo. When you have a lead on enmity, you'll typically start to rotate 2 RA combos for every 1 GB combo without the need of any additional RoH combos. The only exception is when you know a Tank Buster is coming your way. You may want to apply an extra RoH for the sake of mitigation, but it's usually unnecessary in most casual content, so long as you are using adequate cooldowns.

Any recommendations on how to farm gear to stay relevant as a tank?

The easiest way to gear up is to farm tomestones (end game currencies) and purchase gear. Right now, Lore is the highest level of tomestone available, but it is capped at 2000 a week; so, you can only gear up a little bit at a time. In the meantime, Esoterics can get you at least partially geared (roughly item level 200). You can also gear a little faster if you supplement your tomestone gear with Raid gear. while your collecting Esoteric gear, you can use the Alexander drops to fill in the blanks. Once you start replacing your esoterics gear with Lore gear, you can go into Midas (stage 2 of the Alexander raid) and do the same. It still takes a bit of time, though.

The best thing you can do right now is prep for the grind by unlocking all of your roulettes, because they are the fastest way to farm tomes.