Turtle Shell vs Dryad's Blessing for initial tank skill

Hey, everyone. I am starting a new coop project with a friend who is doing a dual gun Sorceress and will be supplying the vast majority of the dps. I will be in front, taunting as best as I can and keeping stuff off of her. Turtle Shell and Dryad’s Blessing will obviously both be picked up early on, but would one provide more consistent benefit as a first choice? Thanks.

Most likely Turtle Shell. That said, the more DPS both of you do, the less time monsters have to damage you. So Bull Rush might be a pretty good choice too.

Turtle as a first. not because the proc (that can still save you from time to time, however) but because of the stat on the nodes.

Dryad when you hit higher levels (and get the proc itself to maximum level) and have sufficient atk speed and OA to trigger it consistently.

You can also dump Turtle by then.

Dryad’s Blessing synergizes well with Chaos Strike since their cooldowns match and you get healed as soon as you come out of warp into a mob. It works well with Blitz as well but you’ll always need to wait an additional 0.1 to 0.2 second between uses.

Not quite. Dryad will get any CDR you have to drop it’s CD down further, but Chaos strike will not. Blitz will actually get a closer synergy as a result.

I believe this only actually matters with a CT Sorceror, but that’s it.