Favorite Tank Class

dustin61

What class is your favorite tank? Whether you're a tank yourself or a DPS/healer what do you like to see? Vote and describe the build of your chosen class.

code65536

Nightblade

For dungeons, nothing beats a nightblade saptank.
For vet trials, nothing beats a DK.

Since the first tank I ever played in this game is my magblade main, I'll vote nightblade, even though most of my tanking these days is on my magdk.

DocFrost72

Sorcerer

Strictly speaking of PvE, Magicka sorc tanking is by far one of the most fun tanking experiences I've had. A great damage shield, a linear AoE root, excellent stamina management, easy access to major and minor armor buffs, movement speed increase, an ultimate that is an AoE stun.

Been tons of fun, and looking forward to swapping out Malubeth helm for Maw of the infernal or two health bonuses, for funsies.

subtlezeroub17_ESO

Dragonknight

How do NB even tank anyway? I feel like it would be more trouble than it is worth.

Liofa

Dragonknight

Even though I really want to run a Ultigen NB , I know that those damn axes will give me a hard time . Sometimes , you just need to permablock . Not even a single light attack is acceptable . So , I will stick with my Ultigen DK . Nothing beats Battle Roar overall .

Lucius_Aelius

Dragonknight

My DK for sure, I like all my Tanks but he is my favorite to play. With Ferocious Leap and Brawler I can do a lot of DPS and be Shielded at the same time, and with Dragon Blood and Magma Shell thrown in he just can't be matched in survivability. I don't use chains so that's not a part of my consideration, the only important things he has that my others don't are what I've listed.

My exact build lately for Dungeons and Trials:

Two-Handed Sword
Spiked Armor
Mystic Guard
Brawler
Vigor
Rally
Ferocious Leap (Warhorn for Trials)

One-handed Sword and Shield
Coagulating Blood
Mystic Guard
Igneous Shield
Pierce Armor
Shielded Assault
Magma Shell

For Dungeons I run Whitestrake's on all but my Templar who will run Pelinal's as soon as I get a Heavy set of it crafted for me (I've been working on my other characters lately before getting around to him), and for Trials I have the Ebon set that I gear-swap between characters as needed. All my characters run with Engine Guardian and either Endurance/Agility Weapons and Jewelry if Stamina or Endurance/Willpower if Magicka.

All my characters are in all Heavy, the Magicka characters have all Spell Damage glyphs on their weapons and Jewelry and the Stamina characters have Weapon Damage (my Templar goes full Weapon Damage to go with Pelinal's when I get it so that he'll have decent heals in PvE and PvP). I just like being able to do some decent Damage while Tanking, which is especially important in solo content.

And my Signature is out of date, I just respecced my Nightblade to Magicka and am thinking of doing the same to my Sorcerer. They didn't have good enough self healing with my old builds and I'm trying out using a Resto Staff instead of Two-Hander on those ones to compensate.

All in all I love all my characters, but my DK just holds his own the best.

Woeler

Dragonknight

Surprise

nine9six

Dragonknight

DK

CP5

Sorcerer

DK was my first tank, and by far the most boring. My NB tank offers mush more engaging gameplay, my templar is interesting to play as well, but sorcs are both fun and effective. No need to permablock save for the most demanding situations in game, a pocket full heal, insane implosions, and some of the best control utility of all the classes. After running a sorc tank for so long, dk's are just so dull.

Travy_2Hype

Dragonknight

Hands down, love my DK!

bebynnag

Templar

only ever tanked on a templar so am in no position to compare!

paulsimonps

Dragonknight

DK is the most versatile of all classes for Tanks. Chains, Talons, Igneous Shield, Igneous Weapons, Mountains Blessing, Helping Hand, Battle Roar and much much more. They are awesome.

Unsent.Soul

Templar

puffytheslayer wrote: »

only ever tanked on a templar so am in no position to compare!

Same here, my first character on xbox release was an imperial templar that tanked for the guild.

Now I tank for pve and pvp. Just always trying to get more out of my templar.

ajwest927

Dragonknight

This is is very pointless poll cause the majority of people going vote DK cause they are designed for tanking

SublimeSparo

Dragonknight

NB's generally more fun to tank on, but for trials you just can't beat a dk.
I have tanked the axes before the update on a saptank and damn was it hard, was a cakewalk on dk.
Tanking the axes and the warrior on the updated trials is pretty brutal even on dk, wouldn't even like to try on NB.
As for Sanctum, NB tank is good fun until you get to the serpent, then a magic bomb can really **** your day up.
Empowering Sweep, bolstering darkness and negate are decent but you really can't beat magma shell for those oh crap moments when the healers are dead and 5 axes are beating on you or the warrior is channeling his death flurry at you

Burning_Talons

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Wolfchild07

Can't really vote. As much as I love DK's, I find it easier with sorc.

Dragon Blood - Only gives you a small amount of health, plus not much else.

Dark Deal - Gives you a chunk of health, plus stamina.

Fix Dragon Blood, it's inferior.

Darius771

Sorcerer

many people still think the only tanker class in the game is DK. I dont have problem in any vet dungeon/trial with any of my five tankers, one or two per class, I like all of them.

Destruent

Dragonknight

Darius771 wrote: »

many people still think the only tanker class in the game is DK. I dont have problem in any vet dungeon/trial with any of my five tankers, one or two per class, I like all of them.

i don't think so, but the class which provides the best support/mitigation for a group as tank is the DK. NB-tanks are great, too, so can be templars and sorcs. But nothing beats a Stam-DK-tank if you want to do raids, the only content where it really matters...

ZoM_Head

Dragonknight

DK first choice

Templar not far behind.

Argue as much as you wish, that instant heal and passive class blocking works on DKs and Templars.

DKs have a massive advantage with CC, Chains, Magma/Corrosive.

Templars are basically paladins, more focused on group support such as shards, cleansing and off heals.

End game, vMOL, vAA and vHRC HMs you want the Dks, every other class is fine for dungeons though.

Bigevilpeter

Templar

Templar has repentance self heal and stamina, has blazing shield as a percentage of health which adds up with multiple mobs, has a 75 ultimate huge damage mitigation ulti and has a 8% damage reduction/8% healing recievd/Major manding/Major resolve/Major ward, just by standing he his circle(cant remember the name) has also magika heals if needed and has nova, though Dk standard is better in that case.

Still overall I barely need to block in the most difficult content, just block at the right moment and the rest is covered with shields and repentance, and im an imperial so red diamond with jabs gives me some good heals.

I also use knightmare set which procs almost 100% of the time with jabs, so all mobs around me have 15% damage reduction and ebon for my party and engine guardian for sustain

actosh

Nightblade

Destruent wrote: »

Darius771 wrote: »

many people still think the only tanker class in the game is DK. I dont have problem in any vet dungeon/trial with any of my five tankers, one or two per class, I like all of them.

i don't think so, but the class which provides the best support/mitigation for a group as tank is the DK. NB-tanks are great, too, so can be templars and sorcs. But nothing beats a Stam-DK-tank if you want to do raids, the only content where it really matters...

Besides Minor Brutality i dont see any real Group Support in the Dk´s toolkit. Dont try to name the dumb shield in here ^^

Chains are situational but ok.
Dragonblood......nvm......
The passive that gives u 12% healing increased is nice and the block mitigation. But it is boring as fuuuuuck ^^

Destruent

Dragonknight

actosh wrote: »

Destruent wrote: »

Darius771 wrote: »

many people still think the only tanker class in the game is DK. I dont have problem in any vet dungeon/trial with any of my five tankers, one or two per class, I like all of them.

i don't think so, but the class which provides the best support/mitigation for a group as tank is the DK. NB-tanks are great, too, so can be templars and sorcs. But nothing beats a Stam-DK-tank if you want to do raids, the only content where it really matters...

Besides Minor Brutality i dont see any real Group Support in the Dk´s toolkit. Dont try to name the dumb shield in here ^^

Don't forget about chains. Sooooo helpfull

HaldaAinur

My first choice for a tank would be either DK or Templar, for their respective buffs and self heals.

But, I do want to try out a sorc tank when I get the choice, and I use a shield on my non tank NB simply for the 'tankier' buffs, which for the squishy NB, is useful to have.

Speaking of sorc tanks; for a magicka sorc tank, what's a good set-up? I'm thinking Shield and sword 1st bar, 2nd bar destro staff.

code65536

Nightblade

actosh wrote: »

Chains are situational but ok.

The new dungeons, sadly, are very DK-centric. I've tanked them on both a nightblade and a DK, and while I still love the amount of damage that a nightblade saptank can do, the lack of chains is really painful. In the vCoS spider caves, in particular. On Dranos, it's much easier to chain each of his shades in for him to reabsorb than to kite him to each shade to reabsorb (that particular strategy for beating the boss is easier because he doesn't do two of his punishment mechanics if you don't absorb any orbs... and, as a bonus, there's an achievement for doing it this way).

In vRoM, getting Obedience Training on Xal-Nur is so much easier if you can chain everything in. And chains help with all the archer adds on Chudan.

Destruent wrote: »

But nothing beats a Stam-DK-tank if you want to do raids

My trials tank is a magdk, and IMHO, it's far better than a stamdk. I still have a lot of stam on my magdk tank: almost 20K stamina. But a large 28K magicka pool and my green points spec'ed into magicka cost and regen is the best setup. The only things you use stamina for is melee taunt, low-slashing, blocking, and evading. It's really not that much that you do with your stam. But your range taunt, chains, Hardened Armor, Igneous, talons, and AoE interrupt are all magicka. For self-healing, a magdk's Embers spam is very cheap and very powerful (I've hit 6K HPS with it before as a tank) and I personally prefer it over Vigor. And thanks to Helping Hands, if I ever do run low on stam, I can just keep stomping my foot to convert some of my magicka into stam.

Oh, and for fun, on the wisp mother boss in vAA, I can afford to keep almost 100% uptime on my wings on my magdk tank and do over 2M reflect damage on the boss over the entire fight.

bertenburnyb16_ESO

Templar

DK is greath though, done everything with him tanking
but Temp is maybe even better, lots of utility skills and ofc a whole healing skill line

CP5

Sorcerer

HaldaAinur wrote: »

My first choice for a tank would be either DK or Templar, for their respective buffs and self heals.

But, I do want to try out a sorc tank when I get the choice, and I use a shield on my non tank NB simply for the 'tankier' buffs, which for the squishy NB, is useful to have.

Speaking of sorc tanks; for a magicka sorc tank, what's a good set-up? I'm thinking Shield and sword 1st bar, 2nd bar destro staff.

I've gotten ok heals on my dk and templar tanks, my nb's built for it so i get good ones there, but the only place i've seen consistent 30k self heals (peaking up to 46.4k if memory serves) is on my sorc.

lolo_01b16_ESO

Dragonknight

Chains > everything

I still have hope they change silver leash to make it a chain alternative again. I really liked that skill even though it had to be activated twice and only worked on deadra.

UrQuan

Dragonknight

Most of my tanking has been on a Templar, I've dabbled with tanking on a Sorcerer, and I'm planning on doing a Nightblade sap-tank (which I think will be really fun), but I have to go with a Dragonknight. Specifically a dunmer vampire Dragonknight using Bloodspawn and Tava's Blessing gear to generate ultimate as quickly as possible, allowing me to pop the Devouring Swarm ultimate as frequently as possible (more frequently thanks to being at stage 4 vampirism), and restoring resources in the process. I've got other DK tanks, but that one is the most fun.

DocFrost72

Sorcerer

UrQuan wrote: »

Most of my tanking has been on a Templar, I've dabbled with tanking on a Sorcerer, and I'm planning on doing a Nightblade sap-tank (which I think will be really fun), but I have to go with a Dragonknight. Specifically a dunmer vampire Dragonknight using Bloodspawn and Tava's Blessing gear to generate ultimate as quickly as possible, allowing me to pop the Devouring Swarm ultimate as frequently as possible (more frequently thanks to being at stage 4 vampirism), and restoring resources in the process. I've got other DK tanks, but that one is the most fun.

Bat swarm is always a crowd pleaser, especially devouring =D