BiS Gear
The Best in Slot (BiS) Legendary, Weapon and Relics for Tariq are shown below.
The "BIS" gearset is running at least five 35% gem socket 'Essence Bonus' pieces (you want as many as you can get) with the best Stats following the Stat Priority listed below.
Here is an example of a BIS list but as you will end up using whatever 35% 'Essence Bonus' pieces you get, yours will probably look slightly different. Just shoot for as much Crit > Expertise > Spirit=Haste as you can.
- Helmet: Warden's Arcanehelm
- Shoulders: Ruinharrow Shoulder Trappings
- Cloak: Drape Of The Slayer King
- Chest: Ruinharrow Pounded Brigidine
- Legs: Oiled Legplates
- Feet: Cold-Iron Sabatons or Hellforged Boots
- Neck: Mark Of The Beast
- Wrists: Sacrificial Cuffs
- Rings: Polished Seer Horn + Loop Of Woven Wrappings
Relics: See Relic section below, dependent on what your group needs per Dungeon.
Legendaries
Tariq’s best Legendary is his cloak, Drape Of The Slayer King. Enemies that take damage from your Leap Smash take 20% more damage from you for 5 seconds. You can get the cooldown of Leap Smash super low with Haste (and Fateful Basher reduces the cooldown), this is easily your best Legendary and increases your damage a lot.
Weapons
Tariq’s best in slot weapon is Fateful Basher, it's the only weapon you want to run right now.
Fateful Basher provides you with 200% CDR (or cooldown acceleration) and 20% Expertise, perfect for your cooldown windows and even better when you get your legendary cloak Drape Of The Slayer King.
Any weapon you get in the early game while ranking up will do, I wouldn't waste any re-rolls on anything until you get to eternal. You will want as many materials to hunt for your BIS Weapon Traits.
Gear Sets
Set bonuses in Fellowship are either unique to a couple of regular Dungeons or unique to capstone Dungeon. It is possible to have 2 Capstone Dungeon sets and 1 regular Dungeon set in total but this is not optimal. When you reach Eternal and you're on the 330 ilvl grind, I recommend using Draconic Might + Drakheim set, and then get as many socketed pieces around that as possible, gemming into Amethyst first. Once you have enough gemmed pieces, you will revert to using the Drakheim tier set only and the rest 35% essence bonuses to maximize your gem power traits. Listed below are the set bonuses worth farming for on Tariq:
Capstone Dungeon Sets
- Draconic Might (Cithrel's Fall): Crits have a chance to increase Strength by 18% for 15 seconds.
- Drakheim's Absolution (Ransack of Drakheim): Your ultimate increases Strength by 20% for 20 seconds.
For Tariq, the regular dungeon sets are not worth specifically farming for but if you happen to come across either of the following set bonuses it might be worth using them in the early game:
- Eldrin Deceit (Godfall Quarry and Wyrmheart): +3% Crit and -15% Threat Generation
- Death's Grasp (Silken Hollow and Stormwatch): +3% Spirit and +15% damage to low health enemies
Relics
Relics are entirely utility focused in Fellowship and aren't unique to each character.
Relic "BIS" doesn't really exist because in the late game you will just play whatever is needed for the dungeon. However, that being said, 99% of the time you will use Sinbinding Stone, the other slot you will use whatever is needed in the dungeon, whether it be Ancient Poultry Fetish, Orb Of Shadows, or Humming Portalstone. Sometimes you will run Grimoire Of Resurrection because Tariq is the least likely to die in a dungeon out of the non tank roles. If you are looking for the best stats Relics for farming Humming Portalstone and Bloodrite Drums are best because they both provide Crit + Expertise.
I highly recommend obtaining every Relic in the game and levelling them to 330 to be able to play whatever the group needs.
A high level tier-list is given below:
S-Tier Relics
Sinbinding Stone - Grants 15% damage reduction to yourself and nearby allies for 15 seconds on a 3 minute cooldown. This Relic is extremely powerful, particularly on some of the harder bosses in the game.
A-Tier Relics
Grimoire Of Resurrection - A simple combat rez. It has a small cast time with a 5 minute cooldown. Great if your party lacks the ability to rez.
Ancient Wardstone - Instantly dispel all harmful magic effects from yourself and allies on a 2 minute cooldown.
Saltwash Elixir - Instantly heals you for 40% of your max hp on a 2 minute cooldown.
Ancient Poultry Fetish - Turns your target into a chicken. Permanently. This will work on any enemy in the game that isn't a boss. It's important to note that using this item will also remove the kill count contribution from that mob so you will need to take that into account when creating a route with this in mind.
B-Tier Relics
Orb Of Shadows - Party wide invisibility for 15 seconds on a 6 minute cooldown. There aren’t too many notable uses of this but it can be strong if you plan around skipping packs with this.
Bloodrite Drums - A 12 second, 50% movement speed increase for you and your allies. (in terms of utility is why its B-, actually has bis stats for Tariq if you're only after stats.
Humming Portalstone - Opens an interactable portal. You can only have 1 of these active at any time and there is a short cooldown on how often you can take the portal. It has a 2 minute cooldown. With coordinated play it could be useful but for most it’s not a great option. (Only B- in terms of utility, also has bis stats for Tariq. Some routes require portal so you will be using it at times)