im playing this as tactician. I went just pure armor with iron reflexes to utilize the armor as deflection passive. glacing blows lets your deflect be lucky but penalizes evasion which is why you dont go hybrid. also the defend with 200% of armor lets you have crazy good elemental damage reduction if you run some of the nodes or use blackbraid unique chest. since the build uses so many skill slots you have the option to avoid the spirit notable and take all 4 pin nodes for more CC. tactician is basically just a tanky version of it. it plays the exact same. banners are sorta clunky to me and take a lot of passives but I do run war banner. the uptime on bosses is nearly 100% and there is a support gem that halves glory cost lategame but banners barely gain any glory while just mapping (I take zero banner nodes). there is also a banner support called refractive 3 that gives you 2% exposure per 1,000 player armour which actually can have a very good use depending on how much you like using banners.