My templar hit 55 two weeks ago. To get ready for besh I have been getting wrecked in arena of discipline and have the full Tac NCO plate set, shield, and sword. I have fully socketed this with white Hp Stones. I have with chanter buffs about 15,000hp, and slightly less without. I am almost full Empyrean Providence (Need like 50k more AP for EP).
Laksyaka hits like a truck when you are base geared so face tanking is sometimes not possible. There are parts of the fight you cannot facetank. He debuffs you so that healing skills are less effective. You will also want a cleric and a chanter and will want to let them know you are very baseline geared. During the fight he will raise his arms, signaling a coming attack. He will hit you with 3 normal swings, then a powerful forward attack. After that you will want to run out to avoid his doom lure and 3 powerful aoes. Keep up this rhythm until he falls beneath 25% and says "You're pretty good". At this point he will begin using Certain Doom. Without Ironskin this skill WILL KILL YOU. Save your ironskin for this point. If you have good DPS in your group they'll burn him before you die, if not he will cycle through your party Certain Dooming everyone until you wipe. A good cleric can rez chain through this, but don't expect it.
So my takeaway:
Tac gear is fine.
White hp stones are fine.
Both of the above hangs on being full defense spec.
Find a good cleric/chanter combo.
Alternatively, my gladiator is a full anuhart set with no HP slotted. about 12,000 hp with buffs and he can survive up until Certain Doom. Past that it's a DPS race.
I would say shoot for about 13,000 Hp as a safe point because ironskin really does the heavy lifting.
