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Storm Paladin Tank Build

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Skills

  • Electrocute Arc Lightning
  • Ray of Frost Sleet Storm
  • Black Hole Supermassive
  • Diamond Skin Enduring Skin
  • Blizzard Frozen Solid
  • Ice Armor Frozen Storm
  • Astral Presence
  • Dominance
  • Unstable Anomaly
  • Blur

Items

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  • Legendary Gems

    • Bane of the Trapped
    • Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard
    • Moratorium

Kanai's Cube

  • Eun-jang-do
  • Depth Diggers
  • Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac

As can clearly be seen, this item set up is mostly incomplete, but even so this build works wonders on torment VIII+. one of the key pieces of this set up is Obsidian Ring of the Zodiac, as it allows you to keep your diamond skin up almost constantly. The only downside to this seemingly omnipotent skill is that more difficult mobs occasionally break through it, thus the mass of cc which not only helps keep you alive but allows you to keep aggro from your allies by controlling the battlefield. Moratorium is another key piece of this build as when your diamond skin does come down, it staggers the damage over increments instead of taking it all at once. this allows for your increased sustain from Molten Wildebeest's Gizzard to quickly bring up your health to full again. Ice Climbers are another vital piece to this set as it make sure your are not interrupted, as your skill rotation is very important in making this build effective. Freeze of Deflection adds another layer of cc to the already formidable arsenal, as well as the added defense of having a shield equipped. The Shame of Delsere Allows you to more quickly recover arcane power, so as not to stall your rotation if you run out of primary resource.

Paragon Priorities

Core

Vitality
Primary Stat
Maximum Resource
Movement Speed

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Attack Speed
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage

Defense

Life Regeneration
Life
Armor
Resist All

Utility

Life on Hit
Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Gold Find

As this build is not made to be a DPS, having high vitality to boost your armor and defenses is of paramount importance over damage. If you have enough paragon points to max out resource and movement speed, fill those and the rest can go into vitality. otherwise prioritize vitality above others. Other paragon trees should be followed as indicated above.

Build Guide

As previously stated, skill rotation is what makes this build run. Before Combat even begins, make sure you activate Ice armor and diamond skin, for added defense. When approaching a group of mobs, the first skill used should be black hole. this brings them all in a tight nit bunch to allow your AOE attacks to make short work of them. Next activate blizzard, freezing the whole cluster and adding to the DOT of Ice Armor. Next Use electrocute, until your Diamond skin is near halfway to coming down. then use ray of frost to remove the cool down, activate diamond skin, black hole, blizzard, electrocute, ray of frost, rinse and repeat.


For those of you on ps4, i recommend this skill layout so that when remote playing with the vita, combat is almost exactly the same despite the akwardness of a few buttons.


X-Electrocute

Square- Black Hole

Triangle-Diamond Skin

Circle- Blizzard

R1- Ray of frost

R2- Ice Armor