Like the title says. Can any experienced player compile a guide about battle tanks? Skills, techniques, places to lvl and some builds.

I ask for this because everyone talks only about high end builds and that really don't help for those who try to start from lvl 1 .

Ty for your time.

The reason why I didn't really touch on a battle build from Lv1 in my guide is because there really is no trick or strategy to it. It is actually quite similar to playing a Ranger/Assassin without using any skills.

Do the standard physical build of 2 Dex per level and the rest Str and find some yellow mobs

Grinding a battle tank isn't really efficient until at least Lv37.

So, no skills can be used to help? No AoE?

And after lvl 37?

The first AoE you get it Ground Boom. It has a one minute timer, so you can't really AoE with it unless you've got 984755 Str and Ground Boom one hit kills everything.

The next one you get is Silence Blow Lv2 at Lv30. By Lv37, you have a lot more AoEs and grinding gets better. The AoEs still have long recharge times and most likely, not everything will be dead after them. At Lv37, you also get Demon Hushing which is useful for finishing off the last few mobs.

If you're grinding with a battle build, I would suggest to always have strong element in your weapon. Without that, a HM battle build is probably less effective in AoE than a NM Fighter/Warrior.

Other than that, it would be similar to the tank build. Round up the mobs and kill them all with your AoEs. Craft and Life Lapis are always my favorites for DPS class grinding.

Set attack to number 1 on your bar and make sure your 1 key is in working order. At lower levels there's just nothing useful it's pretty much normal attacking everything. Demon hushing eventually shows up and of course you could single target darkness and slow etc. But basically it's just normal attacks until you get your AoEs then it gets really fun, until you reach 50+ then it goes back to pulling less mobs or one at a time if solo because they will beat the crap out of you, despite what people think, you're squishy and poison skills destroy you as do 1-2k crits from 5 mobs at the same time. I had played battle def back in the day. Most recently made a 60 UM on that easy private server but even with uber goddess gear you just get rocked in the new maps solo, had to fight one at a time even with 14K HP. But yeah low level battle def and high level is basically a ranger with more HP and no skill chain. Somewhere in between they feel more like a fighter though with a healer they could maintain that through the end i think.

ok they way you could grind with a battle build from lvl 1 on def/gurard is to heavy swat each single mob when you are rounding them up it wil speed things up a bit

Which weapon power ups (and weapons ofcourse) are worth more for battle def? Heavy weapon, Two handed or Sharpen?

Two handed doesn't look like optimal choice for me because shield looks like really usefull with def bonus and extra slots.

thanks for your answers

blunt weapons are stil best choice better damage skills like darkness blow silent blow and stop blow dont work with 2h axe/swords for now and one hand blunt is better damage then one swords/axes with same attack speed

i like walkin around with a 2hand axe though (personally i like the looks better)
also since ep 4 the animation of 2hand blunt weapons have screwded up so yeah stick with 1hand blunt you get skills like shield upgrade wich are vedry usefull altough it doesnt show on your defence you wil get the bonus from that skill i tested that myself against bosses

Hammer and shield are still best weapons I think, even though its cool that defs can use 2 handed swords now.

Shield provides extra slots/def/hp/enchant and you can use all your good AOEs with a hammer.

That means not only can you maximize your stats better, but its a smarter move anyways, skillwise.

win-win

Thank you guys