Best tank that isn't DK or Warden?

HailSanta28

zvavi

Sorc

My opinion is biased.

Fjorynn

Templar

zvavi wrote: »

My opinion is biased.

Streak tank new meta?

zvavi

Sorc

Fjorynn wrote: »

zvavi wrote: »

My opinion is biased.

Streak tank new meta?

BiS in vMoS hm and carrying noobs in vDoM last boss.

Jaimeh

I'd say Necro, NB, followed by Templar, Sorc. But I have to say, I recently starting dabbling with tanking vet content on my sorc tank, and it's a lot of fun!

gatekeeper13

I wont vote because my 2 tanks are DK and Templar, so I cant speak for the rest of the classes.

If you want my opinion on Templar tanks, they have the best damage shield (Sun Shield/Radiant Ward) which together with the minor protection given by the passive makes you almost immortal, they have Rune Focus which gives back stamina and raises you resistance a lot, a very useful healing ultimate that can save your group from wipe in emergency situations, together with Wardens they are the only class that can apply Major Maim to enemies which raises damage mitigation by a lot (with Nova skill) and also have access to Minor Fracture/Breach, which raises group DPS further than other classes.

Main disadvantage of the Templar tank is that it lacks reliable CC skills. RoR is not enough. You cant immobilize enemy like with DKs talons.

Taleof2Cities

Necro

Necromancer has the best toolkit of the classes mentioned.

1mirg

Necro

Is NB a meme vote?

L_Nici

Necro

Necro tops Warden and DK together still by thousands of percent. Necro are without a doubt the strongest possible tank in game.

Cage_Lizardman

Necro

zvavi wrote: »

Fjorynn wrote: »

zvavi wrote: »

My opinion is biased.

Streak tank new meta?

BiS in vMoS hm and carrying noobs in vDoM last boss.

Necro is far superior at noob carrying thanks to the rez ulti. When the wall kills the noobs, just rez them once they're on the other side, then they rez you.

JanTanhide

Necro

Definitely Necro. They have a lot of skills that work great for Tanking. They make amazing Tanks.

ccfeeling

Sorc

Sorc tank is great, she is my main now.

I played Tava NB tank before, well u know, ZOS finally removed the passive dodge system in the game without asking, I cant find anything special in NB at the end.

NerfBosmer

Nb

Only non-DK/Warden tanks I've run in groups so far are Sorcs, and they're great. That said, my magblade is a soloist/carrier so if I couldn't play DK/Wardens for whatever reason, I'd throw a sword and board on him and roll. I know my magblade way better than most of my other toons though, so that probably has a lot to do with it.

Aznarb

Nb

NB is the meta MT since Elsweyr tbh so.. Insane mitigation, good sustain, ton of ult generation, easy acces to minor vulnerability, major protection if needed, etc..
Lack of decent heal but you've healer for that, not a problem.

Necro is decent but lack of sustain.
Sorc is almost unkillable + infinite ressource but didn't bring anything to the team.
Templar lack of decent heal for tank, more than NB since he don't have the same mitigation. Also, their is lot of templar heal and dps around so the unique buff/debuff it provide are already there.

That said if you don't plan to score or do serious thing just pick what you love.

zvavi

Sorc

Funny how we got a wooping 6% on sorc choice but we are loud in the comments xd

MattT1988

Necro

Nightblade tanks are great, especially for Sunspire. But my personal preference are Necros. I find Necro tanking a lot of fun and very effective for almost all content. Can’t go wrong with either.

ZeroXFF

Nb

When it comes to group utility, necro. The ress ulti and the colossus are great.

But when it comes to survival, NB is better by a large margin. On top of the usual buffs, NBs get minor resist buffs, major evasion, AoE minor maim, minor protection, major protection from ulti, 10% flat damage reduction from grim focus and weapon damage reduction on enemies. They lack a bursty self-heal, but of the classes on the list, only sorc has a better self-heal, and sorcs have way less mitigation except for short bursts.

Hotdog_23

Templar

Necro’s probably but I am biased towards Templar.

zvavi

Sorc

Hotdog_23 wrote: »

Necro’s probably but I am biased towards Templar.

Respect

Shaloknir

zvavi wrote: »

Fjorynn wrote: »

zvavi wrote: »

My opinion is biased.

Streak tank new meta?

BiS in vMoS hm and carrying noobs in vDoM last boss.

@zvavi Why? What makes sorc BiS for those dungeons? Care to explain for the dumb

Nordic__Knights

Templar

only other class ive had as tank so it gets my vote since DK cant be .

zvavi

Sorc

Shaloknir wrote: »

zvavi wrote: »

Fjorynn wrote: »

zvavi wrote: »

My opinion is biased.

Streak tank new meta?

BiS in vMoS hm and carrying noobs in vDoM last boss.

@zvavi Why? What makes sorc BiS for those dungeons? Care to explain for the dumb

Were talking specifically about streak, even if pug group that are mostly dead, and there is wall (vDoM) or hunt phase in vMoS hm, streak lets you res the team and save the day. But it is more of a meme xd. (Tbh if you dont like roll dodging, sorc is one of the best classes to block on thanks to bound aegis)

Septimus_Magna

Sorc

I really like my Breton sorc tank, its probably not the best but the toolkit for tanking is very diverse.

DTStormfox

Templar

Templar is the obvious choice:

Empowering Sweep (Ultimate)
Take reduced damage for each enemy hit.

Spear Wall (Passive Skill)
Increase block amount vs melee attacks while you have a spear ability slotted.

Spear Shards (Active Skill)
For the great resource synergies

Solar Disturbance (Ultimate)
Applies Major Maim

Backlash (Active Skill)
For Minor Fracture and Minor Breach (Power of the Light)
OR: Healing pool around the boss (Purifying Light)

Prism (Passive Skill)
Ultimate generation

Illuminate (Passive Skill)
Minor Sorcery to you and your group.

Radiant Aura (Active Skill)
Minor Magickasteal on targets & Minor Fortitude, Minor Endurance, and Minor Intellect on self

Extended Ritual (Active Skill)
Purge negative effects

Restoring Focus (Active Skill)
Major Resolve and Major Ward, and x amount of stamina restored while inside the area of effect (also whilst blocking).

Light Weaver (Passive Skill)
Ultimate regeneration for group members you heal that are below 60% HP

ESO_Nightingale

Necro

DTStormfox wrote: »

Templar is the obvious choice:

Empowering Sweep (Ultimate)
Take reduced damage for each enemy hit.

Spear Wall (Passive Skill)
Increase block amount vs melee attacks while you have a spear ability slotted.

Spear Shards (Active Skill)
For the great resource synergies

Solar Disturbance (Ultimate)
Applies Major Maim

Backlash (Active Skill)
For Minor Fracture and Minor Breach (Power of the Light)
OR: Healing pool around the boss (Purifying Light)

Prism (Passive Skill)
Ultimate generation

Illuminate (Passive Skill)
Minor Sorcery to you and your group.

Radiant Aura (Active Skill)
Minor Magickasteal on targets & Minor Fortitude, Minor Endurance, and Minor Intellect on self

Extended Ritual (Active Skill)
Purge negative effects

Restoring Focus (Active Skill)
Major Resolve and Major Ward, and x amount of stamina restored while inside the area of effect (also whilst blocking).

Light Weaver (Passive Skill)
Ultimate regeneration for group members you heal that are below 60% HP

doesn't templar lack a crucial tank skill? i dunno it's been a while

ZeroXFF

Nb

ESO_Nightingale wrote: »

DTStormfox wrote: »

Templar is the obvious choice:

Empowering Sweep (Ultimate)
Take reduced damage for each enemy hit.

Spear Wall (Passive Skill)
Increase block amount vs melee attacks while you have a spear ability slotted.

Spear Shards (Active Skill)
For the great resource synergies

Solar Disturbance (Ultimate)
Applies Major Maim

Backlash (Active Skill)
For Minor Fracture and Minor Breach (Power of the Light)
OR: Healing pool around the boss (Purifying Light)

Prism (Passive Skill)
Ultimate generation

Illuminate (Passive Skill)
Minor Sorcery to you and your group.

Radiant Aura (Active Skill)
Minor Magickasteal on targets & Minor Fortitude, Minor Endurance, and Minor Intellect on self

Extended Ritual (Active Skill)
Purge negative effects

Restoring Focus (Active Skill)
Major Resolve and Major Ward, and x amount of stamina restored while inside the area of effect (also whilst blocking).

Light Weaver (Passive Skill)
Ultimate regeneration for group members you heal that are below 60% HP

doesn't templar lack a crucial tank skill? i dunno it's been a while

They do. An HP% based heal. Templars have to choose between worst case survival and being able to heal themselves, while all other classes get both by stacking HP.

TX12001rwb17_ESO

Necro

Necromancer easily, did you forget the Bone Goliath transformation gives 30k health and makes all light and heavy restore health, not to mention Ravenous Goliath Morph surrounds them in an absorption field which drains health from enemies.

Scythe healing also scales off of health and therefor is boosted by the Goliath ultimate.

ZeroXFF

Nb

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Necromancer easily, did you forget the Bone Goliath transformation gives 30k health and makes all light and heavy restore health, not to mention Ravenous Goliath Morph surrounds them in an absorption field which drains health from enemies.

Scythe healing also scales off of health and therefor is boosted by the Goliath ultimate.

Scythe requires multiple targets in melee range to be good. This means you can't heal in situations like for example vAS when the boss is flying and leaving behind the fire AoE.

As for Goliath, compared to NB you got one ulti that has to make up for major protection + 10% flat damage reduction + weapon damage reduction + minor resist buffs + major evasion. Depending on build and situation this can give much more in terms of effective HP and effective incoming healing than Goliath. Not to mention that the major protection from the ulti applies to the whole group rather than just you.

Really, the only argument for Necro over NB is group utility, because in terms of raw survival NB is much better.

Septimus_Magna

Sorc

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Necromancer easily, did you forget the Bone Goliath transformation gives 30k health and makes all light and heavy restore health, not to mention Ravenous Goliath Morph surrounds them in an absorption field which drains health from enemies.

Scythe healing also scales off of health and therefor is boosted by the Goliath ultimate.

Its a great ult for long duration survival but usually you shouldnt need an ult to survive.
Scythe heals decent with multiple enemies but on a single target the heal is rather small.

zvavi

Sorc

Septimus_Magna wrote: »

TX12001rwb17_ESO wrote: »

Necromancer easily, did you forget the Bone Goliath transformation gives 30k health and makes all light and heavy restore health, not to mention Ravenous Goliath Morph surrounds them in an absorption field which drains health from enemies.

Scythe healing also scales off of health and therefor is boosted by the Goliath ultimate.

Its a great ult for long duration survival but usually you shouldnt need an ult to survive.
Scythe heals decent with multiple enemies but on a single target the heal is rather small.

Neh mate even with 1 target the heal is big, 30% of max health? Delicious.

WiseSky

Sorc

You can Streak away if when you team dies because you dont have a taunt, no self-respecting sorc has 1h&B or Frost Staff.