@Tenryu said:
If you're looking into a serious tank build you really want to pick up the Great Shield of Artorias. It's so ridiculously good it's beyond words. For straight tanking physical damage it beats out Havel's no contest. 88 stability on it so regular mobs barely register stamina drain, and then on top of that it blocks status effects on any hit that you block. Plus it's only 34 strength so unless you really want an all around general use shield, it's really worth picking up. That and 16 weight vs Havel's 26, so damn good >_<!
I swear by the paladin set for armor if you got 40 twinkling titanite laying around or if you're a hardcore farmer. The total defense on it is 410 at a full +5, so Giant' s +5 only beats it out in terms of pure physical defense by a rather small margin, I'll have to check later >_<! Giant's is quite ridiculous for fire defense though so it's a bit of a toss up. Mainly you're going to have to have multiple armor sets if you want to maximize your tanking ability since some of them have different specialties, much like all the shields you'll want to carry around as well for differing situations ^__^! The main problem you'll run into is if you use a great sword level weapons with a great shield, is well stamina drain >_>... I'd recommend a faster weapon or one with a status effect like an uchi/washing pole. Loving the washing pole for the range, it's really quite nice for dropping some bleed fast.
To answer Sorrowsan's question, the black knight great axe is one of the best strength scaling weapons in the game, definitely worth picking up if you can grab it.
The BKGA is by far my favorite weapon so far since I am a dex / str build. Also, Havels shield beats Artorias by the fact that its effect is like iron flesh AND it has the highest overall status defense. It may not be the best for everyone but if you can get the str to hold it, it will not let you down. The paladins weight is 33.1 vs smoughs 45.1 which can seem like alot but for a tank, your endurance needs to be high anyways which would equate to you holding either havels ring or ring of favor since it adds to health, stamina and equip weight. And in regards to physical defense, smoughs its top in all vs paladins AND for elemental. The only thing smoughs is lacking is curse defense which if you dont stand in one spot during fights, should never be a problem. The only down side to having smoughs armor + havels though is that if you use anything that is a great (level) of weapon, you will never have the quick roll but be stuck with the medium roll / run. If you weild something like queelags fury sword or a lightning spear it will be fine but to have something like a black knight great axe, you will be slowed down. It hasn't crippled me in any of my pvp fights but it does make chasing people a little tiring as most of the time I just stop and let them run off to go use heal and ill wait and heal myself if needed. Also since you would have havels shield, bosses spells and User spells (pvp) will do practically no damage since the resistances on it are some of the highest in the game, not to mention your armor also has Extremely high elemental defense.
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