The Immortal Tank
An endgame tank built around defense-to-attack scaling. The Bull King 4-piece grants Tenacity below half Health so you can melee through boss combos uninterrupted, while the Dark Iron Staff converts your stacked Defense into raw weapon Attack. A layered Damage Reduction stack (Wind Tamer, Laurel Buds, Evil Repelling Medicament, plus the Jade Moon Rabbit + Gold Sun Crow pair) keeps your Health full while you trade hits.
Damage
Dark Iron Staff scales Attack from Defense. With 400+ Defense from the Bull King set, melee output exceeds dodge-focused setups by a wide margin
Survivability
~80%+ stacked DR: Wind Tamer ~48% (active), 3x Laurel Buds in brew (+30% per gourd sip), Evil Repelling Medicament (long buff), Jade Moon Rabbit + Gold Sun Crow pair. Basically unkillable
Boss
Trivializes Gauntlet of Legends and Relic Holders. Builds Focus by tanking instead of dodging
Mythical NG+ staff with the highest base Attack in the game and a unique effect that scales Attack off your Defense stat. With the Bull King set stacking 400+ Defense, the staff translates your tank loadout directly into damage output.
How to Obtain
Mythical headgear. Its unique effect grants moderate Focus every time you take damage, with the Focus gain scaling higher while Tenacity is active. Pairs perfectly with the 4-piece set bonus that grants Tenacity below half Health.
How to Obtain
Two-piece bonus: upon taking damage, temporarily grants moderate Defense. Four-piece bonus: disables Perfect Dodges but grants Tenacity when Health drops below half. The Tenacity is what makes the build's attacks uninterruptible, so you accept the Perfect Dodge tradeoff and play through hits instead of around them.
Epic Curio paired with Gold Sun Crow. Slightly increases Damage Reduction on its own, and the effect is enhanced while Gold Sun Crow is also equipped.
How to Obtain
Mythical gourd with the highest sip count in the game (10 uses). Critical for sustaining the Laurel Buds DR buff and the Jade Essence Health refill cycle through long Gauntlet runs.
How to Obtain
Rare Soak slotted three times into the Supreme Gourd's brew recipe. Each Laurel Bud adds +10% Damage Reduction to the gourd-drink buff, so a fully-brewed gourd with three buds grants +30% DR for ~15 seconds every sip. This is the single biggest layer of the build's DR stack outside of Wind Tamer.
How to Obtain
Legendary Vessel that bursts massive Damage Reduction (~48%) on activation. Combined with the Dragonfly Guai spirit's Qi regeneration, you can re-activate the vessel often enough to keep the DR buff up for most of a fight.
How to Obtain
Combat Strategy
- ▸Drink an Evil Repelling Medicament before the fight starts. The long-duration Damage Reduction buff layers on top of every other DR source.
- ▸Confirm the Bull King set is fully equipped so the 4-piece Tenacity bonus is online once Health drops below half.
- ▸Verify Wind Tamer is in your Vessel slot and Dragonfly Guai is equipped as your spirit for the Qi regeneration cycle.
- ▸Engage in melee range and trade hits with the boss. Bull King's Mask generates Focus every time you take damage, and the 2-piece bonus stacks temporary Defense on hit.
- ▸Once Health drops below half, the 4-piece Tenacity kicks in so your attacks cannot be interrupted. Continue chaining Light and Heavy attacks through enemy combos.
- ▸Use Cloud Step for repositioning when you need to reset distance or trigger an Unveiling Strike on a punishable wind-up.
- ▸Cast Immobilize only as an emergency interrupt against heavy combos when Tenacity isn't online and Health is too low to trade.
- ▸Drink the Supreme Gourd whenever Health drops. With Jade Essence and 3x Laurel Buds in the brew, every sip restores ~55% Max Health and refreshes a +30% Damage Reduction buff that lasts ~15 seconds.
- ▸10 gourd charges means you can effectively reset to full Health several times across a Gauntlet of Legends run.
- ▸If you take a fatal hit in NG+, Life-Saving Strand auto-activates and restores you to full Health (gourd charges do not refill).
- ▸Activate Wind Tamer on cooldown. The ~48% Damage Reduction burst is the single largest DR layer in the build.
- ▸Stay aggressive to feed the Dragonfly Guai Qi-from-hits passive. Higher Qi rate keeps Wind Tamer's uptime as close to permanent as possible.
- ▸Dodge occasionally as a cherry on top to maintain Tenacity-free phases and avoid wasting the 4-piece bonus before you actually need it.
Sources
Verified: 2026-05-20 · All content is original with full credit to original creators.