Blue Line Champion Martial Build

By Araphorn – Updated for Yondershire, U33

Trait Trees

This is the tree I use for Blue Champ. It gives me the best mix from all lines. I get the best stuff needed from Blue Line. 5% Crit and 10% attack duration (both necessary for aggro control) from Red Line, and AoE Targets, max Frenzy, and Might + Finesse rating from Yellow Line. Might rating helps with Physical Mitigation, Critical and extra Parry/Evade and Mastery. Finesse helps also as tank gear doesn’t give enough. I get almost 55k finesse from trait, which is a huge help, especially for interrupts.

35 Trait Points Build for Legendary Servers

60 Trait Points 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

LIs for Blue Champs are pretty straight forward. You need an exclusive Blue Rune and a Blue 2-Hander Weapon, which has all the key Traceries needed for Blue Champ. A 2-Hander also allows a Champ to block in Blue Line, which it can’t in Dual-Wield.

2-Hander Weapon

Type	Sockets
Heraldic Tracery	Heraldry of the Ox
Word of Power	Base Morale Multiplier
Word of Power	Incoming Heal Bonus
Word of Mastery	Battle Frenzy Cooldown
Word of Mastery	Blade Wall Damage
Word of Mastery	Horn of Gondor Damage & Mitigation Debuff
Word of Mastery	Riposte Damage
Word of Mastery	Sprint Duration & Evasion Chance
Word of Mastery	Wild Attack Damage
Word of Craft	Grand Willpower
Word of Craft	Grand Willpower

Champion’s Rune (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	Adamant/Invincible Duration
Word of Mastery	Bracing Attack Heal
Word of Mastery	Dire Need Cooldown & Power Cost
Word of Mastery	Fear Nothing Cooldown & Incoming Healing
Word of Mastery	Swift Strike/Blade Damage & Power Cost
Word of Mastery	Sudden Defence Cooldown & Bubble Magnitude
Word of Craft	Grand Armour
Word of Craft	Grand Armour

Rotation

Here is what I do on Blue Champ.

For AoE Aggro control:

1. To begin with, you have to bunch all the mobs together. You cannot pick 1 mob, wait and go to next one, you have to run really fast and grab all your group is capable of, and hold them in 1 place.
2. While you are running to grab the adds, make sure there are no hots on you from the healer (you can tell them not to heal you while you are grabbing adds). Your passive reflect from Blue Line will also help you a bit while you are running to grab mobs. You can also use Horn of Champions while running for a ranged skill taunt, if there are lots of mobs stacked together.
3. Now that you have all the mobs stacked up in one place, stun them all from your Champ horn of Gondor and then use Battle Frenzy, then Raging Blades. Let your DPS people in your group get some nice hits on them. After you see your group has done some damage on them, (usually 2-3 seconds) – do Blade Wall.
4. Now depending on your group’s DPS, some mobs maybe are on them, some not. You have to check that yourself, if lots of mobs are on your DPS guys, the only way you can get them off is from True Heroics, that’s your AoE taunt, but it has a large coolown, so use it wisely. If your Horn of Champions is available, use it also.
5. Usually you can hold AoE aggro just from consistent Raging Blades – Blade Walls – Swift Blades, and well timed AoE horns, so you can get a nice burst of those AoE skills. But if your group’s AoE dps is too strong, then use True Heroics to grab all the mobs. This is why point 1 and 2 are important, try to grab all the mobs possible (to the capabilities of your group), bunch them up, and use Heroics when needed.

For single-target aggro control:

1. This aggro control is generally easy, but with a strong DPSer in your group (such as Red Burg), it can get messy.
2. You want to start the boss fight with Max Fervour (use Battle Frenzy pre-fight).
3. Start with Brutal Strikes – Clobber – Swift Blade – Wild Attack – Champion Challenge (taunt) – Battle Frenzy – Raging Blades.
4. ^ That’s your standard opening rotation for Bossses. Eventually you will lose aggro, so don’t forget to re-taunt when Champion Challenge comes off cooldown.
5. If your group’s DPS is too strong, and you lose aggro after your 1st taunt goes off, use True Heroics.
6. After 30s, when you see your aggro is set for the remainder of the fight, keep an eye for mechanics and use Cooldowns as necessary.
7. Sudden Defence and Adamant are your biggest and most reliable cooldowns, use them as required, if you get big hits, use Sudden Defence first, and if you are still taking a beating after that and your healer can’t keep up, use Adamant.
8. Always try to keep Bracing Attack on cooldown, it gives a nice buff of 15% incoming healing, which will help your healer.
9. Dire Need and Fight On are not effective cooldowns, but you can use them if you have nothing else left.
10. Try to keep Blade Wall and Horn of Champions as much as possible on cooldown also, it debuffs your target(s), which will help.
11. As for Unbreakable (the capstone trait of Blue Line) is just oddly designed, I find no practical use for it. I mostly just use it as a pre-fight buffing skill and use it when I’m starting a fight, and after that, just use on Cooldown.
12. Try to keep your Clobbers available for interrupts, we usually assign our tanks to be the first person to interrupt, for best practice.

Consumables

There are the consumables to use on Blue Champ:

1. Crafted 10s Horn. These are invaluable for Instances/Raids, your group will always ask for these, so keep them with you. (You can only use ones which say ‘Most effective against targets of your level or lower.’)
2. Fervour pots. These are great for the instant 5 Fervour and Dev Magnitude for big hits. I typically don’t use them very much while Tanking.

This is the Food to use:

Updated as of U33.

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