You can be the ULTIMATE TANK in Dungeons & Dragons 

Clerics are my favorite tanks, nothing gets the DM to target you faster than being the healer.

It reminds me of my first character. Crystal Dragonborn Sorlockadin. 7 levels of oath of conquest 3 levels of hexblade and 10 into divine soul sorcerer. I wanted some versatility for the party. Plus flame strike on a paladin makes total sense to me

One weird tank build to bring up, and I feel is worth discussion is playing with one level in fighter, 3 in bear totem barbarian, as a Githzerai. Due to the weird wording in the core rulebook, bear totem can wear heavy armor and STILL gain the benefits of raging, barring the damage buff, pair this with battle master (or superior technique) and you could essentially goad people into attacking what may or may not be basically a tarrasque level hit pool, with more maneuverability, and with some spell protection of some form, this becomes "f*** you wizard" the build.

I should probably mention that mark of sentinel gets these two racial features, Guardian's Shield. You can cast the Shield spell with this trait. Once you cast this spell with this trait, you can't cast that spell again until you finish a Long Rest. Wisdom is your Spellcasting Ability for these spells. Vigilant Guardian: Once a creature that you can see within 5ft of you is hit with an attack roll, you can use your reaction to swap places with the creature, and you are hit by the attack instead. Once you use this trait, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest. As long as the starting feat isn’t mandatory you can use these features once a day each.

I chose the Path of the Zealot Barbarian. I really enjoy the Divine Fury. The Radiant and Necrotic damage option on each round is rad. Fanatical Focus is cool but Rage Beyond Death is the coolest feature but you have to wait until 14th level to get it

I can't argue with any of that. When I saw this video title, I immediately though "Paladin" and you didn't disappoint.

"Best to avoid Wizards altogether." Wrong. Abjurer Wizard with 1-2 levels of fighter is the best tank in the game. Hell, it's the best wizard in the game, too.

Another extremely good tank is barbarian and moondruid, you can wild shape then rage so you get a second health pool with resistances. Ancestral guardian if you want to protect allies or bear totem if you want to resist more damage. Also barbarian and battle smith because your steel defender can be another health pool to absorb damage

Defender Armorer Artificer, Warforged, have plate armor and a shield. Take booming blade, sentinel and charger feat. You run in and hit someone for +5 damage from thunder guantlets. This causes them to take disadvantage against anyone but you, furthermore, if they try to hit anyone else, you get an oppurtunity attack. If they try to move, oppurtunity attack. And if you hit that oppurtunity attack, they can't move. Every attack after that, booming blade, so if they move you get another attack and they automatically take damage. Its the ultimate lockdown build.

That's an intresting build. For my tank build I went forge cleric, redemption paladin and battle master with the magic initiate for sorcerer to get shield and blade ward. I had about 36 potential AC with all attacks (even magical) coming with disadvantage. My DM stopped attacking me after some point and was just throwing all kinds of saves, e.x. feeblemind and it was hilarious

Having taunts is nice but I've found that damage works just as well. I'm currently playing a Forge Cleric and using both my spiritual weapon and Toll the Dead are usually enough to keep the attention of anything at range. I can either spread it out or focus down a single target, sometimes I even throw down a Guardian of Faith if I need to lock down an area. And of course Spirit Guardians to keep anything in melee from moving.

One of my favorite tank builds is guardian armor artificer, you get the disadvantage attacking allies/area control spellcasting/and free +1 and +2 shields and armor for dealing with stingy dm’s 😂

DM: That moon druid is just a bear I can avoid it it’s not doing much at 6th level. Moon druid just unlocked CR2 wild shapes, goes Allosaurus on their asses, they either pay attention to the dinosaur rushing them or croak fast.

Hey bud. Good video, I just found your channel and I've enjoyed the presentation. My opinion on this build is, you acquired warlock later in the game, I think maybe pact of the chain may be more beneficial at this point because I imagine at lv 12 you may already have a magic weapon. So the benefit I would go for with pact of the chain is the Pact of the everliving ones, which allows you to regain more hit points. Your build is like this kill box and everyone is trapped inside with you, so I imagine you may end up taking a bit of damage, especially as more and more foes are stuck in you 30ft trap. I think that extra healing could be nice. If you used the other pact of chain invocation you can allow an imp familiar to poison enemies using your spell save DC. So if an enemy is attacking an ally outside your bubble, you can poison them and give them disadvantage on attacks to cover an ally. That's my cup of tea. See ya on the next one.

My favorite tank is a warforged Nature cleric. Through the use of plant growth and spirit guardians you can very easily stop melee enemies in their tracks, and if your DM is cool you can even redirect projectiles to your character with the proper cursed item. You even give yourself or a party member resistance to several damage types at 6th level as a reaction.

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Im playing a cavalier fighter rn and it is in my opinion the best tank subclass. It imposes disadvantage on attacking anybody else. Other than yourself, it increases armor class and gives. You or an ally resistance to damage taken. You get extra attacks based on an ability you get at level 3. Overall in a short summary this subclass makes it to where if the enemy ignores you, they will die really quickly.

Aura of Vitality with fifth level spell slots and Armor of Agathys at fifth level are icing on the cake. Though I think you missed going Chain Warlock for the double healing to you invocation That’s super good on the tank that takes most of the party damage.

My favorite tank I ever built was a fallen Aasimar Oath of Ancients Paladin with the Heavy Armor Master. Misty Step into the middle of a group of enemies and smite the biggest thing on the field to announce yourself as a problem, then cast an AOE spell centered on self due to the spell damage resistance aura. Made for an absolute blast of clearing out swathes of enemies and even going toe to toe one even ground with the big boys. Fallen Aasimar even gave me a great fear aura effect for scattering enemies if the heat got to be too much

cool tank build! i play an oath of the crown paladin. there is no escape!

My second character was a palalock tank but instead of hexblade i went the healing path and then used my summons as one time use meat shields. Also had a habit of casting darkness at my feet and telling my party to just fire into the void when i needed a little more time

Love this video!!! Is it possible to make a Trevor/Richter Castlevania build?

I've built a fairly good Cleric-Monk Tank (AC of 21 from unarmoured fecne+20 dex+18 Wisdom) and the one dnd revisiont to deflect attacks. sure people can attack others but i soak up so much damage and hits and I'm one level off of my 5th cleric level for spirit guardians and Aura of vitality

Great video, I recently discovered this channel and I'm loving your videos. Is it possible to make a build for the character Golden Darkness from To Love-ru?

I probably go oath of redemption 9 + pact of chain warlock 3 for mines of phandelver/shattered obelisk, variant human 16 str 15 con 16 cha dueling style, polearm master, sentinel, resilient +1 con. Gift of Everliving + Eldritch Mind invocations. RP wise he removes the spear tip when fighting humanoids, turning it into a quarterstaff for non-lethal damage, holstering it in his shield hand using his movement or bonus action/reaction while casting somatic or material spells.

so my DM has some homebrew stuff like full plate armor (flat AC of 19 and requires 18Str) as well as tower shields (3AC isntead of 2 but you cannot make opportunity attacks while wielding one) and I'm a warforged forge cleric. We hit lvl 6 not too long ago and my AC is currently 25 before any spell buffs

I believe that the artificer Battlesmith or Armorer makes the best tank. Use enhance defense on a shield, and your armor. At later levels you can get a cloak of protection and a ring of protection. At level 5 the artificer gets the blur spell.

I tried the most appalling multiclass combo for a crazy oneshot. A barbarian/sorcerer with extremely high charisma, who could be the most calm headed spellcaster you've ever seen or just become an absolute monster with rage because of his sheer strength. It was a duality of sorts, the campaign was still hard tho lol

nice, since Halloween is coming soon, how about a dracula castlevania build (main series + the lords of shadow reboot mostly)

Armorer artificer Warforged are ludicrous

Id say the best tanks are ones that disable enemies and support allies. The survivability of a tank is normally a means to making them better at being a problem. A good tank distracts a enemy by forcing them to attack them. A great tank is enough of a roadblock that they don't NEED to force them to.

Luv your vids keep’em coming. Thoughts on a Deadpool build???

For me the best tank, specially against big threats, is an ancestral guardian barbarian, it has the closest thing to a reliable "taunt" in the game

One of my D&D parties doesn't have a tank, we are A DPS heavy party. Thank you.

Bard of whispers is best bard for a murder mystery and if u pair it with a level in ranger for a better understanding of humans then focus on your charisma and stealth

I think I may have created one of the most potent Tank builds achievable in 5e. Loxodon + Totem Warrior Barbarian + Armorer Artificer. Loxodon because you can use your Natural Armor to calculate your AC as 12 + your Con modifier, AND you can use that Natural Armor calculation even if you're wearing other armor. Thanks to this we can dump Dex to focus on Con as our primary, Str as our secondary, and Int as our tertiary (we won't be casting many damaging spells since we'll be Raging anyway). The main concept of combining Armorer Artificer with Totem Warrior Barbarian is to combine Reckless Attack with your Thunder Gauntlets for the ultimate aggro tactic, giving the enemy disadvantage against anyone but you AND giving them advantage on attacks against you. With a shield and Infusions like Enhanced Defense we can get our AC decently high to help combat the fact our enemies will often always have advantage on us, but even when they hit we'll have resistance to all damage thanks to Bear Totem and our eventual Resistant Armor (Psychic) infusion, and a boatload of health thanks to our focus on Con. Mathmatically it may not be the best Tank build, but flavor-wise and from it's ability to draw enemy fire more effectively than any other build I've seen, it's definitely one of the most interesting tank build I've seen. Especially given it's combining two VERY different classes that most people would think are nearly incompatible. And hey, if you aren't too thrilled about having such a low Int as a partial-artificer, if you make it to the higher levels you can grab the Replicate Magic Item infusion once you're an Artificer lvl.10 and grab yourself a Headband of Intellect (If your DM doesn't just give you one earlier on cuz they're cool like that). Also just as a sidenote for anyone who may say "Why not just go Ancestral Guardian Barbarian?", Ancestral Protectors only affects the first target you hit on each turn, whereas the Thunder Gauntlets work on every attack you make with them, meaning you can potentially aggro two, or even three enemies if you pick up the Dual Wielder feat. Get the Mobile feat on top of that and you'll be able to "pull aggro" on multiple enemies even more consistently.

I knew hexblade watlock was going to be in the build somewhere, but this sounds like fun.

Cool. How are you casting spells with a melee and shield without Warcaster?

Not “the best” tank, but a remarkably great one, is the swords bard with a hex blade dip. Plenty of spell slots for casting shield, defensive maneuvers, medium armor and shield proficiency, heavy armor depending on race/feats, while being a full caster with healing options and good mental saves. Easily breaking 25-30 AC every turn if you need to, doing great damage with your charisma scaling and maneuver damage. And since you’re a bard, you also have insane utility and can be face of the party.

I really want to do a Gem Dragonborn (one of only a couple races that allow a raging barbarian to fly) Ancestral G Barbarian. Taking the dragon fear half feat. That way, 1 really strong enemy, hit them with the taunt. Mobs? hit them with the dragon fear, which is imo the best fear effect PCs can get access to. And i think pairing 3 levels of AG barbarian with 5 levels of oath of the crown is just *chef's kiss*. Also, don't sleep on a Guardian Armorer Artificer. Absolutely AC fiends with arguable the best taunt feature in game. And Flash of Genius is great for making those critical saves. Basically, they just need Int and Con and you're golden, only build/class that can legit dump both Str and Dex and not lose much, and that allows some unique multiclassing.

Better tank builds than current Overwatch. Speaking of Overwatch, could we get some character builds from that game? They have some interesting potentials especially if we consider the lore and not just the gameplay.

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I have a few tweaks to this build. Granted, these tweaks kind of depend on your DM and rolls. But instead of custom lineage. I'd suggest either Dragonborn and the 1st feat you pick up is Dragon Hide. Gives a +1 to Con, and gives an unarmored defense AC of 13 + Dex instead of 10 + Dex. Could also just pick the Lizardfolk race. They get the AC boost, but not the +1 to Con. This way with the 1 "free level" Pick up Barbarian. That way, hypothetically if you were able to max Dex and Con, you could have and AC of 25. Also would change Booming Blade to Lightning Leash. This way you still have a way of pulling enemies to you without having to use a spell slot up. Could also change the Evocation to pull instead of push. Thanks to Tosha's book, basicly any race can be a custom lineage as far as ability points go.

Taking sentinel nullifies a little taking protection fightstyle 🤔 and later with the substitute trick is even worst

Celestial warlock, multi class with barbarian, maybe paladin, heal yourself constantly while raging.

Is there overlap between the protection fighting style and the sentinel feat both using your reaction?

I think I would take a single level of warlock *MUCH* earlier, maybe as early as level 2, before continuing with paladin for however many levels I'm going to take. This avoids the problem of a 15 attack attribute (STR) actually making you a fairly ineffective combatant, even early on.

The Kender Long Death Monk with a three level dip into Zelot Barbarian. A Kender 11th+ level Long Death Monk, with _Mastery of Death_ using *Taunt.* Yeah the Red Dragon gets you, but you can walk it off. And being a Monk you could potentially lead an enraged foe on a epic chase as they focus only on you and your superior speed. You could lead them past the Party so everyone else gets advantage attacking from behind. The other part is to be a Kender Zelot Barbarian with Warrior of the Gods. The BBEG squishes you, giving the Parties spellcasters a chance to get off that spell combo. And then it's just "Ok, hey Cleric cast Raise Dead on our trash talker again." Cue argument about gaining XP while dead......

Okay I will be playing this build in a new campaign but the dm just granted everyone and extra feat to start off with... I'm considering: Polearm master and using a spear instead of warhammer. 1d6 instead of a d8 but possible alot of extra attacks and combined with sentinel it'll stop monsters from moving very effectively. Lucky... because it's just good Or Alert... the high roll on my initiative allows for positioning at the start of combat. What would you recommend?

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Going to be honest. Don't sleep on the Bladesinger Wizard as a tank. Casting Blur and then Mirror Image during a Bladesong is INSANE. Blur gives attackers against you disadvantage and mirror image give you 3 illusionary copies which ALSO get the blur effect. Plus the damage you can put out with Spirit Shroud and Booming Blade is nearly what a Paladin can do, to say nothing of of the fact that they can ALSO get Spirit Guardians. Illusion Wizard takes this and runs with it as well, though it take a little longer to come online the level 14 feature says one aspect can become real...surprise! now all my duplicates are REAL and fool things like scent and truesight.

Bear totem barb with caviler fighter. Pretty much the perfect tank.

I'd definitely substitute at least level 2 for 1 warlock dip

I did a Barb/Monk 100% unarmed build. Was not built to be optimal at all, just a fun build. Damage was awful at the start, and although I never came close to being the mvp of dps, around half way through the campaign I was holding my own with damage. But the sheer survivability and movement of that build was kind of insane and accidently made me the party tank. My character was also a warforged (flavored as more of a human/warforged cyborg) who'd overdrive his systems when raging, and his metal parts had steam vents that blow steam like a steam train after completing big movements. Between his flavoring and him just being an unstoppable unit once he got going, he earned the nick name "The Angry Steam Train". Lol. I loved that build, but he was completely an unintentional tank.

Would you be able to go to hex blade while being a paladin? I feel like that would clash with your god.

this build is why 1. campaigns never go to 20 2. dm's dont let us multiclass

Tanks really aren't a thing though because of the human element. The tank role is an MMO thing, because it relies on aggro for an AI opponent. Can you be tough and punch hard? Sure, but you can't force the DM to waste attacks on you over that wizard over there. Spirit Guardians doesn't create difficult terrain, it halves an enemies speed only while within the effect, which means it can stack with difficult terrain and other effects like Spike Growth and Plant Growth respectively. My current 'tank style' Wizard is: Mark of warding Dwarf, 1x Free Mage Armor/day Access to Armor of Agathys. College of Lorehold Background, Spirit Guardians, Take Healing Word, Sacred Flame. Full Abjuration wizard for Arcane Ward, Booming Blade, Shocking grasp, Fire Bolt. Take Mobile at Lv4 to more reliably trigger booming blade. Next one will likely be Life Cleric 1 Necro Wizard X for Spirit Guardian shenanigans.

a paladin sorcerer hexblade warlock can do everything. paladin have hight AC with a heavy armor and shield you can heal himself and sorcerer divine soul allow you to get slot heal and have Spirit guardian be a hexblade allow you to attack with CHA get shield spell and armor of agatys

I recently played in a 20th level One-Shot where every player had to have multiple levels in at least 3 classes, basically removing 9th level spells. I made a tank build that was fantastic. Ancestral Guardian Barbarian 8 Peace Cleric 8 Echo Knight 4

Could i request Wall-E? i was thinking something along side of a warforged nature paladin, but it would be interessting what you can do with it

But if you give someone disadvantage on attacking an ally its still protecting them so it still works somewhat.

For survivability only, I can't find anything better than Shadar Kai, Life Cleric 1, Hexblade (maybe Genie) Warlock 1, Abjuration Wizard the rest of the way. Grab heavy armor, the Armor of Agathys and Shield spells. Then, concentrate on Vampiric Touch. Add Fire Shield when we get it, and Elven Accuracy. Use your familiar to get advantage. You wade in and the enemy hits you and takes Fire Shield damage. Once you're down a bit, cast Armor of Agathys. Now they are taking much more damage per hit, and you have you Abjuration shield up, and can use Blessings of the Raven Queen to get resistance to all damage to keep Armor of Agathys up longer. When it goes down, you're likely healed to full health. As long as you have spells, your enemies won't be able to damage you fast enough to take you out.

I myself find sentinel while usefull quickly looses potency because of midlevel spell vulnerabilities on single monsters... If it doesnt have legendery resistance one of my 2 allied spellcasters simply guts it with a spell similar to hypnotic patern or fear. If it does it gets walled or drowned in summons. While the cool abilities all are save or suck on the crown pally. Its why i when i make tank value that less then lets say A gem dragonborn with the fearbreath feat. A single +1 char while hurtfull to loose will be so much more awsome as flight and aoe fears for single attacks.

How do you get the option oath of the crown?

Can i have some suggesstion on other multiclass coause my master don t accept hexadin...

Alucard build from hellsing ultimate would be cool

Spore druid/barbarian multiclass is super busted for tanking

If you are going to exploit sentinel, then fighter would be a better choice as more attacks per turn.

Did you know that armor of agathys and fire shield aren't concentration and stack?

What do you think of a paladin artificer

Immediately sending this to a friend who loves the Hexadin for pure DPS reasons. Now he can be a tank Hexadin as well. Lol. Thanks, my guy.

Hexblade is taken way to late in this build to keep STR at 15. The game's basically over before you can attack with CHA.

Can you please build either Goblin Slayer from “Goblin Slayer” or Albedo from “Overlord”? I want to see what you come up with.

i would go 14 zealot barbarian / 6 crown paladin

Let's pretend Armorer Artificer doesn't exist. Sure, why not.

it's simply a pure paladin for perhaps half a years worth of a campaign if not more. by the time you reach level 11 guide as well might be in the realm of mysticism, because most people never get there. the entire video could have been 4 minutes instead of 20 and still conveyed as much.

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You sound like Jocat or Tulok the Barbarian. Also, why didn’t you return to paladin? Was there anything worth it?

I think it's better to have 14 in strength for 10 dexterity. It's not very usefull anyway to go in a dongeon in full plate armor.

I feel like johnny cage would be a great fit for dnd.

That’s……… that’s a blender sir

Best Tank in D&D?

Artificer?

Zato 1 build, am I right?

Zealous barbarian level 10 that’s it you don’t die ever

Do black beard please

This is dumb. Obviously it's a warforged, forge cleric using defensive duelist feat or fighting style defense feat. With plate and shield that's 23-26 plus 2 for shield of faith. Usually a good positioning will allow Allies to attack from behind you. If a friend drops low, heal them with healing word, or sanctuary them. You'll already have aggro since you're the healer. Lol

Please do Blackbeard from one piece

This is armorer artificer erasure…

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Many problems with this build but Im gonna fcous on one made super early that just really indicates how this "Best tank" build isnt rly gonna live up to its name. 3 15s, 3 8s for stats... What? This is such a barebones novice idea for "min-maxing". Why are we taking 15 str? At least we got the other two to 16 with racial bonuses. But 15 str is juat a waste of points. You could take 14 str and then you have 2 points you can use to turn one of your 8s (-1 modifier) to a 10. Having a -1 dex save on a tank isnt kinda bad (Think about dragon breath weapons. Massive dmg often dependent on a dex save). +1 to wisdom saves isnt great either bc wisdom is a fairly common save, especially for fear affects. You're not a great tank if you're too busy cowering in a corner. "But AoP!" Yeah, at level 6. Still 5 levels running around with garbage saves in important stats and after thag they just become okay, when they could be great. But you can go even farther. If you didnt wait until double digit levels to take the hexblade dip and took it lvl 2 or maybe even lvl 1 you can have you're attack and dmg scaling off charisma super early and could even straight up dump str and put those points elsewhere. Saves arent the only reasons to want to reduce ur negative modifers as well. Dex affect stealth checks. Wisdom is Perception, a super valuable skill. You dont want 8s in three different stats. Your hamstring your character capabilty is so many areas to become slighty more effective at stuff you couldve still be rly good at anyway. Min-maxing was first explained to me to mean: Minimize weaknesses, maximize strengths. Be good at your main niche yeah, but find ways to shore up the stats the fall short. Whether through spells, features, or feats, and do it fast. Does no good to an adventurer that they "planned" to become better at shaking off magical effects after its already gotten them or their friends maimed or killed. This isn't a terrible build. Its a "tank build" but certainly not the "best tank build"

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Stopped watching when he dismissed rangers

If this is another bear totem build im quitting watching dnd youtube builds forever

The minute you dismissed bladesinger you lost all credibility. Sorry, my guy.

am i the only one whos going to mention this guys liberal use of eyeliner?