i've been playing around with secondary professions and i decided to get the elementalist line a try.
Swordmanship 12 (1 from minor rune)
Tactics 12 (1 from minor rune, 1 from helm)
Earth Magic 10
strength 2 (1 skill point left over and 1 from rune)
skills:
Gladiator's defense
Bonetti's Defence
Sever Artery
Galrath Slash
Ward against Melee
Armor of Earth
Healing signet
Rez Signet
If i'm in a mission where there's a spellcasters, i'd switch our gladiator's defense with shield stance and ward against melee with obsidian flesh.
With the 1.5k armor, the damage is next to nil (unless it's a skill or spell, but even those are lessened with armor of earth).
The only problem with running shield stance + obsidian flesh + armor of earth... you walk damn slow. =)
w/e pve build
byoo511