Blue Beorning

Blue Beorning Tank Build

By Araphorn – Updated for Yondershire, U33

*Note: Finesse and Trigger Essences for Tanks are optional/situational. Use only if you have room for them, although the Tank Trigger essences can be quite nice for harder group content.

Trait Trees

There are two different ways to build a Beorning Tank tree. One way is for when there is no Beorning healer in group and one is when there is a Beorning healer present in group. This is because, if there is a Beorning healer present, then there is no need to trait for Bees from Yellow Line and you can just build for Composure from Red Line. But, if there is not a Beorning healer present, then it’s important to trait for Bees from Yellow line.

This is my first tree, I use this if there is no Beorning healer in group:

This is my most perfect setup. I have the fellowship-wide Rush, which is great, I have the 30% Shake Free Morale Bubble, I have maxed out Bees (with Armour Crush) and some healing potential via maxed out Nature’s Mend. If I find myself in a good position and my group mates not so, I switch into Man Form and toss them a few heals with Nature’s Mend and Hearten.

Next is my Tree when there is a Beorning in group, so I can trait differently to get Composure from Red Line:

This tree includes same traits from Blue as from the previous one, but I’m traited for Composure here instead, which has a decent self-heal capacity.

35 Trait Point Build for Legendary Servers

60 Trait Point Build for Beginners

Virtues

These are the virtues I use to reach the Stat Goals. I use these 5 virtues on all my tanks as I find these exact ones to be the best for tanks.

Here are the Virtues which go along with the Stat Goals:

1. Loyalty (Great for Vitality)
2. Fidelity (Great for Vitality + Tactical Mit)
3. Charity (Gives great amount of Resistance, decent Vitality and Physical Mit)
4. Tolerance (Gives great amount of Tactical Mit, decent Physical Mit and Resistance)
5. Innocence (Gives great amount of Physical Mit, decent Tactical Mit Mit and Resistance)
   • If you are over Physical Mitigation cap, swap Innocence with Honour

If you don’t have these virtues, here are some alternatives:

• Honour (Gives decent Tactical Mit, Morale and Critical Defence)
• Fortitude (Gives decent Morale, Resistance and Critical Defence)
• Compassion (Gives great Physical Mit, decent Tactical Mit and Armour Value)

Legendary Items

These are the LIs and their Traceries for Tanking Beornings. It’s better to Dual Wield as a tanking Beorning, for extra Stats.

*Note: Please use Word of Craft Traceries as per Stat Goals.

1-hander Axe

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Ox
Word of Power	Base Morale Multiplier
Word of Power	Incoming Heal Bonus
Word of Mastery	Bear Form Damage
Word of Mastery	Bee Swarm Critical Defense Debuff
Word of Mastery	Counter Dodge & Counterattack Damage
Word of Mastery	Relentless Maul Damage
Word of Mastery	Roar Damage
Word of Mastery	Wrath Refund Chance
Word of Craft	Grand Willpower
Word of Craft	Grand Willpower

Beorning Carving (Class Item)

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Ox
Word of Power	Area Effect Target Count
Word of Power	Incoming Damage Reduction (Physical)
Word of Power	Incoming Damage Reduction (Tactical)
Word of Mastery	Hearten Heal Strength
Word of Mastery	Recuperate Heal Pulses
Word of Mastery	Rush Evasion Bonus & Duration
Word of Mastery	Thickened Hide Duration & Tactical Damage Reduction
Word of Mastery	Thunderous Roar Cooldown
Word of Mastery	Vigilant Roar Incoming Healing
Word of Craft	Grand Armour
Word of Craft	Grand Armour

Rotation

Here is what I do on Beorning Tank.

For AoE aggro control:

1. To begin with, always start the fight with max Wrath. You can use Biting Edge, Hearten and Ferocious Roar to fill up your Wrath pre-fight.
2. Go in Bear Form and round/gather up all trash mobs in one place (to your group’s best capability). When you start running, use Vigilant Roar on the first mob you see, then start rounding them up. This makes you reflect threat when mobs hit your Bear. You can also use Claw Swipes and Thrash on mobs while you are gathering them up.
3. When they are all gathered up, use Vigilant Roar once again if up on the nearest mob and hit Claw Swipe.
4. Wait a few seconds and let your DPS players hit mobs, take a morale pot if you are going down, or if you are going down way too fast, use Thickened Hide (swap LI if you have the legacy).
5. Now that you have allowed your DPS guys to do some damage (usually not more than 3-4s), now it is time for Relentless Maul. That skill will pick every mobs attention. Make sure you hit that skill in a central arc so it picks everyone.
6. After Relentless Maul is down, then it is just Thrash – Claw Swipes. You can put Bees and Armour Crush on high morale targets.
7. You also have a 3rd taunt, called Thunderous Roar, I usually save this one unless I really need it, if I messed something up for example, so if my taunt missed on something, then only I use Thunderous Roar.
8. If you are running low on Wrath, quickly switch to Man Form, use Biting Edge – Hearten – Ferocious Roar. After that switch back into Bear Form, you don’t want to be in Man Form for long while tanking.
9. Always try to keep Thrash on cooldown, its your best Wrath generating skill while tanking.

For Single-target aggro control:

1. To begin with, always start the fight with max Wrath. You can use Biting Edge, Hearten and Ferocious Roar to fill up your Wrath pre-fight.
2. Start the boss with Vigilant Roar taunt.
3. Then apply your debuffs right away, Bees first (don’t forget to swap to unimbued weapon if you have, for the debuff duration). Then use your Armour Crush.
4. After those 2 debuffs are on, you will lose aggro soon if you have a good DPS player in group, so either do Relentless Maul or Thunderous Roar.
5. After your second taunt is done, boss is generally yours till it dies, but its good practice to keep taunt on cooldown. Besides, Beorning taunt offer a good reflect and incoming healing as an added bonus, so always keep Vigilant Roar on cooldown.
6. Now that you have established aggro, just keep your Bees and Armour Crush debuff on cooldown and manage your wrath.
7. From time to time you might lose all your Wrath, so try to keep Thrash on cooldown and switch into Man Form and use Biting Edge – Hearten – Ferocious Roar and switch back to Bear Form.

Consumables

There are the consumables I use on Beorning:

Updated as of U33.

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