[evhallion]

Tank Pet (Solo) Build

Order to Obtain Starting at 0 AA

• Enhance: Warrior Pet - 5
• Posses Minion – 1
• Perceptor's Stamina - 4
• Shockwave - 4
• Perceptor's Bodyguard - 4
• Perceptor's Command - 2

When you get your 21st AA RESPEC to:

Manipulations - 21

• Enhance: Chain - 5
• Enhance: Dispel Magic - 3
• Enhance: Grasp - 5
• Enhance: Fear - 3
• Enhance: Grisly Mark - 5
• Tainted Heals - 1

Then go:

• Enhance: Warrior Pet - 5 (Beef up Tank)
• Posses Minion – 1

STA - 23

• Perceptor's Stamina - 4
• Shockwave - 4
• Perceptor's Bodyguard - 4
• Perceptor's Command – 8
• Perceptor's Bodyguard - 3

(Note: You are now at 50 points spent and can now start working down TSO trees, sadly you will have to waste 10 points in the general tree to get to the mage enhancements to your Solo ability)

TSO GENERAL – 10

(Note: none of these will help you from a Solo/Survivability point of view but 10 points must be spent to get to the next tree. As a suggestion extra power is always good for a mage and extra health is good for your Lifeburn.)

• Any ability – 5
• Any Ability - 5

TSO MAGE – 11

• Root Mastery - 5
• Runic Protection – 5
• Bewilderment - 1

(OK with that done back to our regular trees)

STA - 5

• Perceptor's Bodyguard - 1
• Shockwave - 4

Rotting - 21 (Increase Personal Damage)

• Enhance: Rot - 5
• Enhance: Coil - 5
• Enhance: Locusts - 5
• Enhance: Bleeding Ritual - 5
• Lifeburn - 1

WIS - 23 (Increase Tank Pet Damage Absorbtion & Damage Output for hate gain)

• Animist's Wisdom - 4
• Animist's Transference - 4
• Minion's Barrier - 7
• Minion's Uproar - 8

(We are now at 120 points and can now put points into the TSO Summoner Tree)

TSO SUMMONER – 11

• Minion's Constitution – 5
• Summoner's Soothing– 5
• Minion’s Mark - 1

(OK with that done back to our regular trees)

WIS - 1

• Minion's Barrier - 1

STR – 17 (Increase Personal Damage Output)

• Theurgist's Strength - 4
• Animated Dagger - 4
• Parrying - 4
• Wild Channeling - 5

Pacts - 10 (Extra Healing & Pet Damage)

• Enhance: Heal Minion - 5
• Enhance: Consumption - 5

Gravecalling - 10 (Ability to use Scout, Fast Summoning for emergency or pet OOP)

• Enhance: Shadow Pet - 5
• Enhance: Summoning – 5

(You now have 169 points spent save up 3 more to get undead tide and can now put points into the TSO Necromancer Tree)

• Enhance: Undead Tide - 3

TSO NECROMANCER – 14

• Archlich's Lifetap – 5
• Shield of Bones – 5
• Disease Mastery – 2
• Wrath of the Undead Servant – 2

(You now have 186 points spent. 70 in Summoner, 70 in Necromancer, and 46 in the TSO trees. You have a total of 14 points left over to be spent in TSO trees. Nothing else helps you much from a Survivability point of view but here are some recommendations on how to spend them)

• Minion's Pact – 5 (extra debuffing)
• Macabre – 3 (Shorten timer on Feign Death)
• Noxious Clensing – 1 (Self Nox Cure)
• Pet Weapon Mastery – 5 (Extra Damage)