The Wolverine Tank Build is entirely built around having 2 Logan's Paws and lots and lots of health. With Logan's Paw, health is + Physical damage, so you can specialise in Vitality. Both attack damage per hit and return damage when hit depend almost entirely on your total health.

CONS: + Physical Damage isn't multiplied by anything. This means Might, Crit Damage, Attacks of Opportunity, Counters and + % Physical Damage and + % Damage are all almost useless, since they only act on the base weapon damage. Only enemy debuffs and your own health significantly raise damage.

PROS: Since you don't need to worry about all the above, you can focus on health/vitality buffs, % regen and healing, damage reduction, resistances, the ability to cancel debuffs, and getting extra hits in. As a result, this build can avoid the DOT and %HP reduction problem of other tank builds. This build can solo easily or works great partnered with pure damage builds.

WEAPONS - LOGAN'S PAW X 2 - Since this is an equipment-based build, it is inaccessible until you get the Logan's Paws, which have a 10% drop rate from the Grandmaster. On the bright side, the key feature (+10% of health as physical damage) will be there even with a low-level Mythic, so keep an eye out for the Mythic Merchant in routine gameplay.

CHESTPLATE - GOLDEN VALKYRIE PLATE - The only +% Vitality equipment, this is the second important item to get, and really needs to be high-Tier to be effective. On the bright side, this has a high drop rate from the Valkyrie Commander.

HEADGEAR - There's no standout + Vitality headgear, so there are several options: Plague Mask (Legendary), Adamant Helm, Bladed Great Helm, Slayer Mask, Wolfshead Mask. Any of these will work, so use the highest Tier one you can find.

RING - HEART SIGNET is the best, with a noticeable edge. It is also a rare Global Loot, so good luck. Gamble if you have money to burn. Otherwise, the highest +Vitality ring you can find will have to do.

AMULET - DRAUGHT OF LIFE. Easily the best Amulet, and is dropped by Avatar of Xotec & Medusa.

EQUIPMENT ENCHANTMENTS:

You'll want to put the Immortal prefix on your weapons and armor. They're working on the bug on putting it on Golden Valkyrie Plate as well (where % and + for the same stat can not be on the same item). Also note that putting a +Physical damage prefix on a Logan's Paw is bugged and will overwrite the 10% +Physical damage of the weapon.

One of your equipment needs a single + Return damage (Thorns). Your large + Physical Damage is then added to this for your return damage. If none of your equipment has return damage by default, put it on one of the Logan's Paws. Otherwise, Logan's Paw can get the Of the Master suffix (+% Weapon Damage) to add a few hundred points of damage per turn.

Return damage example:



Go with Of Steel for your Helm and Chestplate suffix. +30% Physical Damage Resistance makes a big difference for a Tank.

Amulet and Ring can only get one enchant, so go for Regeneration. 10% of this health pool is no joke, eventually thousands of points a turn.

ATTRIBUTES:

All Vitality, all the time! The other stats are relatively useless with this build.

SKILLS:

SHADOW - 6 POINTS -
Critical skill: Reaper's Toll. Almost broken with this build, once the build is maxed every Fodder that dies heals you for nearly 10k health (with bonuses).

Thirst I/II give excellent lifeleech with this build. Ghost Armor is great when you're breaking a level 200 exploding barrel with a level 200 enemy standing next to you. Vengeful Shadows is a good option, but the 50% heal received reduction from Curse is better for those pesky healing/regenerating enemies. And the resistance debuff amps your damage about 20%:



LIGHT - 5 POINTS -
Critical skills: Healing Hand and Light's Endurance. Light's Endurance %Vitality bonus is broken with this build, and Healing Hand will eventually give you more than 20k health per use.

Empowered Light I/II don't affect Healing Hand (or Warrior's boon for that matter), but seem to affect your per turn regeneration and Reaper's Toll, so this ends up adding something like 1000 HP to those. Bless is a good alternative to Emp Light II. Seal Of Protection adds important Damage Reduction. (Seal of Might is almost useless with this build).

CRITICAL SKILL - DEALING WITH DEBUFFS - LIGHT OR FIRE - The bane of every Tank is debuffs. You need to be able to clear debuffs at least every other turn. Two options here, LIGHT or FIRE

LIGHT OPTION - 3 POINTS - Purify and The Good Doctor. This lets you Purify every 2 turns, and also gives you the option to Healing Hand every 2 turns. This option is a little mana heavy, but usually enough to deal with debuffs.

FIRE OPTION - 3 POINTS - Cauterize. Yeah it costs you health, but with this build that barely matters, and you can use it EVERY TURN for NO AP. No debuffs for you! Hot Head, Fire Shield or Fire Borne are all very minor but okay for your first 2 picks. I would pick the passives and only pick up Fire Shield if inflicting Heat will help another character.

MONK - 5 POINTS -
Critical skills: Endurance I/II and Willpower. Endurance adds to health pool. Enough said! Willpower is great with Seal of Protection and an enormous health pool. If you're also using the Adamant Helm, you can get to the 50% Damage Reduction cap pretty easily.

Pain Suppression can also help you get there, particularly if you're using Reaper's Shrines for the damage boost or about to tank a major boss ability. Incapacitate is situational but can be useful. Unless you're fighting the Black Dragon and your clone uses it on you...

LIGHTNING - 13 POINTS -
Critical Skill: Conduit. Yes, you're pretty much spending 13 points to be able to get 2 AP and 4 hits a turn. If you want a more pure tank build, you can consider dialing back lightning and putting all those points into Damage Resistance skills. For damage, in theory you could go for a bunch of active skills from Monk or Warrior instead, but this works out at about the same damage with less mana cost and less clicking.

Lightning Shield/Enchant Lightning/Aura of Lightning. Yes, all those Shocks will only add a few hundred points of damage per turn. It's still damage, and will help other character's crits as well. Storm Weathered I/II. Resists for a Tank always helps, you'd probably want to keep those even if you opt out of the rest of the Lightning tree. Storm Bringer I/II / Storm Brewing. Crits don't do a lot with this build but they still help. Teleport Self/Teleport Other. Repositioning is surprisingly useful. Try moving all the barrels into one spot, teleport the annoying regenerating monster you're fighting in the middle, yourself adjacent to a barrel on one side, then Ghost Armor and break the barrel. Great stuff!



Link to the build: https://ianlamb.github.io/stolen-realm-planner/skill-calculator/lightning?build=bj1Xb2x2ZXJpbmUgVGFuaztsPTMwO3M9NjEyNjE1NjI1ODE3NjIxNjM1NjM2ODExODI5ODIxODM2NDE2NDExNDI2NDIxNDM1MTE0MTIxMTI1MTExMTI0MTMyMTE1MTI2MTMxMTM1MTUzMDE1MDE2MDI0

FORTUNES:

Fortitude - For the Vitality!
Gift to the Conquered - Also for the Vitality!
Claw of the Anthulk - builds extra physical damage quickly with 4 hits a turn.
Enchanted Pumpkin - lets you keep up all the enchants and auras. Also helps HP regen. A little.

POTIONS:

Potions pay for themselves in high-level play. Potions of Life for even more health (and damage!) And potions of Rejuvenation/Regeneration give A LOT OF HP in this build.

Sample picture of build (Tier III equipment at 4/6, and using Potion of Life):



And in action farming Tier 3 Medusa drops (Potion of Life + three Lv 160 Vitality rune buffs):



And later with Tier III equipment at 5/6, also with Potion of Life, while in action in Heart of the Realm difficulty at Lv 100:





With this build, eventually the bigger challenge is taking down the enemy health pool (5 million plus in this case), rather than the enemy damage. This battle took 80 turns (Hodr also regens most of his health pool once per battle).