ideas for the defensive thief class.

oriondean

So I heard around the forums that there were two aspects to each archtype. the warrior has the dragonknight aspect, good for tanking and dpsing, and the templar aspect, good for dpsing and healing. the mage has the aspect of the sorcerer good for dpsing and as a pet class, I also hear it can do pretty well as a healer or tank, and the warden, the undisputed champion of tanking and healing for the mage aspect. lastly we have the nightblade. as I understand it it is good at dpsing, somewhat good at healing, and somewhat good at tanking. I was thinking for the alternate aspect of the thief archtype we could have the bard. he could use some magica abilities for healing because bards pick up plenty of skills in their travels, and he is good with a blade because adventuring to come up with material for your songs and poems means you have to get your hands dirty. lastly I wonder if we could make the 2nd thief aspect an evasion tank?

My other thoughts are if we want to go the monk rout we could consider greybeards from high hrothgar to be akin to monks. or we could consider occulus agents to be "defensive thieves" as secret agents to the emperor. what do you guys think?

Oakmontowls_ESO

Well night blades do have access to major evasion as a class skill but short of that, a evasion based tank isn't really something that can be built in this game. Night blades do, however, have sap tank builds where they use skills from the siphoning tree to heal them selves. Unfortunately I'm not sure how they faired with the Morrowind patch since they had their resource return skill gutted in that patch.

Keep_Door

Im not sure were you are hearing this but any class can fill any role. Sure templars make the best healers and DKs make the best tanks but a NB or a sorc could do the job as well.