Stats, Traits & Gems Tariq Fellowship Hero Guide

The Stat priority for Tariq is as follows:

1. Item level / Strength
2. Crit
3. Expertise
4. Spirit=Haste (I think more spirit over haste is better, but it all depends on what gear you get your 35% bonus on)

Item level is king in Fellowship as main stat has the greatest effect on your damage, healing and survivability.

Haste lets us cast Heavy Strike more often and more consistently proc Blood & Thunder in lightning builds, while also reducing the cooldown of several other key abilities.

Critical Strike has the chance to double the damage of your abilities. It synergizes well with our talent Spit It Out, increasing the power of our Crits further.

Expertise is a simple stat that increases our damage and healing.

Spirit builds your ultimate faster by reducing its cooldown and increases the chance to refund your Fury spenders, letting you cast more Hammer Storm and Skull Crusher in your cooldown windows.

It is incredibly unlikely to randomly loot a weapon with all of your BiS traits on it so this will naturally take some playing around with to get the best results. You are able to reroll the Traits on a weapon so if you happen to come across a weapon with your best Master Trait then it might be worth rerolling the Heroic traits instead of holding on hoping for a better weapon to drop. This could also be worth doing with ideal Heroic traits, however the cost of rerolling the Master Traits is significantly higher both in gold and the Legend's Godstone.

High level Tier List to support this discussion below:

Master Traits

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The best Master Traits are Visions Of Grandeur and Amethyst Splinters. Visions Of Grandeur is your go-to majority of the time, but in massive pull dungeons where there is a very high count of enemies such as silken hollow Amethyst Splinters can be used and perform well. You can opt to play Amethyst Splinters full time if you wish but being able to get +10 Ult charge every use of your Fateful Basher is very nice, and getting a reset when you Ult is also a very large damage gain. Fateful Basher>Ult>Fateful Basher again for an instant 10 spirit whilst in your Ult and getting 2 sets of 20% expertise and cooldown reduction.

Heroic Traits

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So far I believe that the best Heroic Trait is Inspired Allegiance, which gives you and your group Haste and reduces the cooldown of your Weapon Ability, giving you more weapon uses and therefore more Spirit because each weapon usage is +10 Spirit as well as the CDR/Expertise. The other powerful Heroic Trait is Willful Momentum, which gives flat Spirit and when you get a Spirit refund you get a flat % main stat increase. You tend to get a lot of Spirit refunds on Tariq so the uptime of this flat % main stat is pretty high.

Defensive Traits

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King Of The Hill is a must have. Next best Defensive Trait is somewhat flexible and dungeon dependent. First Man Standing is great on top of King Of The Hill for certain dungeons like Sands, each time the last boss orb blows up you proc First Man Standing, Treasure Hunter's Delight is also good situationally specifically on rot damage like the last boss of Stormwatch, the coin boss in Wraithtide etc. Since Tariq's defensive only lasts 4 seconds you can make yourself tankier for your healer with Treasure Hunter's Delight. Latent Resurgence can also be good situationally, the second choice is just dungeon dependent.

The gem system in Fellowship is pretty unique. You socket gems into your gear to gain Gem Power, which then unlocks various Gem Bonuses. Gems come in different sizes, and bigger gems provide more Gem Power.

You can upgrade gems using Gem Fusion at Master Craftsman Braggi, fusing 3 of the same gem type and size will create the next size up.

Some socketed items can also drop with increased gem power on the socket itself, 35% on regular items and 100% on Legendaries. Because of that, you’ll want to prioritize putting your higher-quality and larger gems into those boosted sockets. For example, a Legendary with a 100% increased gem power socket is the perfect spot for one of your biggest gems.

There is also a hard cap on how many gems you can hold, once you reach 92 total gems, you’ll stop looting new ones.

Gem Types & Bonuses

The Gem types each follow a pattern of the type of bonus they provide, a simplification of the Gems is shown in the table below.

Tariq Gem Priority & Ideal Setup

Ruby

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Amethyst

0

Topaz

0

Emerald

0

Sapphire

0

Diamond

0

Gem Cost: 0 / 92

100%

35%

100%

35%

100%

35%

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35%

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100%

35%

Our early-game gem priority for Tariq is: Amethyst > Sapphire > Ruby > Emerald > Diamond > Topaz.

In the end game, your goal is to max out the Amethyst tree first, since Amethyst not only boosts your Crit chance but also Crit damage, massively amplifying the value of effects like Spit It Out and Crack The Sky.

After that, invest into Sapphire until you reach Mystic's Intuition - II, giving your Ultimate a strong throughput boost and some extra Spirit to help you build it faster. As well as increasing the duration of Spirit of Heroism by 6 seconds, giving you 6 seconds of +30% haste when going into your Thunder Call directly after your Raging Tempest. With the 24% Strength increase from Ancestral Surge - II and the 20% Strength you get in your Ultimate from the Drakheim's Absolution set you will end up with at least 44% bonus Strength when in your Ultimate.

Finally, use your remaining slot for a Ruby, which adds 3% primary stat.

There is some personal preference here, instead of going into Mystic's Intuition - II, you can use a Flawless Amethyst to get some extra main stat % and health, opt for 8 strength and 140 stamina in the ruby tree, or keep the extra 300 Stamina 300 Spirit in blue.