Getting started with DoA: Tank

Introduction

This guide is meant to help players who are looking to learn tank set their assassin up properly. It includes a lot of optional equipment and covers both MT and TT.

PvE skills and titles

The only PvE skills you will need for tank are:

As always it is vital that you have the correct rank to use these skills, in this case r5 Norn.

When starting MT your Lightbringer rank doesn't matter, but remember to always display it and make sure it shows up in your effects monitor. Always take the bounty if you're not max rank.

Equipment

Before starting, get at least the equipment marked as required to keep your success rate as high as possible.

Armor

Required

Normal blessed set:	Jadoth set:	High health headpiece:
		Very useful in Veil.

Optional

Gloom cave set:	Derv hill set:	Low hp/armour set:	Extra energy pieces:
Useful for staying alive if playing without Dark Escape.	To make use of this you need specific weapons and pcons. See below.	Commonly used as TT during the last wave of 4'th room Foundry to keep aggro of the small Fury Titans.	Can be used to cheat in a couple of extra energy for a cast.

Weapons

Required

Shield set:	Energy hiding weapon:	Staff:	Flatbow:	Vamp daggers:
	Hide energy while tanking Margonites without Balth.

Recommended

High energy staff:	Earth shield:
	Swap to this shield if tanking Rage Titans without prot. Since they aren't demons, your normal shield will be ineffective.

Optional

Derv hill set:	Shield without HP:	Zealous spear:	Zealous daggers:
Use together with Drake Kabob and either Vanguard's or Saboteur's Insignias.	Useful for managing your health at Jadoth.

Consumables

Higher attributes, more health and faster cast time help a lot. Apples can be avoided as MT before City for better health management at Jadoth.

Required	Recommended	Optional
Cupcakes (TT only)	Pumpkin Pies	Lunar Fortunes
Candy Apples*	Throwaway summoning stones (Legio)	Drake Kabobs
Candy Corns	Ghastly Summoning Stones	Skalefin Soups
Golden Eggs	Powerstones/Dragon Seals	Pahnai Salads
War Supplies		Imperial Guards
Res Scrolls
Personal DP removal
Tengu Support Flares

Practice and preparation

The conventional way of preparing for tank roles is to first become proficient in the other roles of the team. This is because the tank roles require broader knowledge and typically set the pace of the run.
Unfortunately the few things that can be practised without a team mostly apply to TT. Before learning this role, get familiar with Gloom cave (see video below) by flagging a team of heroes where the earths spawn. First ball in city can be practised without a conset.