Talking about the best tanking build you need first to define the most important qualities:
1. Staying alive longer
2. Holding aggro and keeping it away from nukers\healers
Damage would not be important for a tank at all. You have nukers for that.
1. Means Heavy armor maxed on HP, Stam and Parry and a large shield with similar stats (shield means no 2h weapon)
2. Means fast attack - as fast as possible in fact and that would be 1h spear. It beats 1h sword any day in speed. The stanza should be: ignore armor and high accuracy. No need for increased damage as it would simply eat away your stamina.
Tanks are used most often in Boss hunts.
However for PvP (melee rush) you would need a different sort of build - not a classical tank at all...
1. Staying alive longer
2. Holding aggro and keeping it away from nukers\healers
Damage would not be important for a tank at all. You have nukers for that.
1. Means Heavy armor maxed on HP, Stam and Parry and a large shield with similar stats (shield means no 2h weapon)
2. Means fast attack - as fast as possible in fact and that would be 1h spear. It beats 1h sword any day in speed. The stanza should be: ignore armor and high accuracy. No need for increased damage as it would simply eat away your stamina.
Tanks are used most often in Boss hunts.
However for PvP (melee rush) you would need a different sort of build - not a classical tank at all...