Tanking entire rooms?

mimic57

Anyone know the best ways to aoe tank (which aoe ability's cause the most aggro?).

Thanks!

Noth

I don't think you are meant to tank entire rooms, hence why there is no AoE taunt.

Orchish

You are not really meant to tank the entire room in ESO. Trying to do so will have you running around chasing after every mob. Your job is to aggro the big threat and keep the big guys off your group whilst they focus him down. Most of the trash mobs are of little threat in comparison and can be dealt with by the rest of the group. As a DK tank, i have been using burning talons to lock down larger groups of enemies, whilst taunting the main threats in the room to keep them on me. Been working out well for me thus far.

zydrateanatomy

I have to train myself not to read "Death Knight" and think "Dragon knight". Oof.

Lalai

Coming from the standpoint of a healer, because that's what I play.. I don't want my tanks trying to tank all the things. Us healers would have a hard time keeping you up if you aggro'd everything.. most of our stuff is AOE, and anything burst healy takes a -lot- of mana. In addition, you then wouldn't be able to keep an eye on all the mobs to be able to block all the heavy hitting attacks and whatnot when needed.. which further hurts instead of helps.

It's best to do what Orchish suggested.. get the attention of the big mobs and let the dps take care of the little ones.

nerevarine1138

Noth wrote: »

I don't think you are meant to tank entire rooms, hence why there is no AoE taunt.

The thread can basically end after that post.

There is no AoE taunt. You are not meant to hold an entire room's worth of aggro. Ever.

LIQUID741

zydrateanatomy wrote: »

I have to train myself not to read "Death Knight" and think "Dragon knight". Oof.

Glad I'm not the only one that hasn't thought that...

mimic57

Guys.. chill. Am I the only one that can't pull just one mob? I have yet to be in a Dungeon and be able to pull just one group. The entire room pulls every time. I'm only doing the lvl 15 dung.

nerevarine1138

mimic57 wrote: »

Guys.. chill. Am I the only one that can't pull just one mob? I have yet to be in a Dungeon and be able to pull just one group. The entire room pulls every time. I'm only doing the lvl 15 dung.

Ah, I think that people misunderstood your question.

Of course you're going to pull large groups. But you can't aggro the whole group. You don't have an AoE aggro ability. Your group members will have to learn to focus their damage on the appropriate targets (healers/crowd-controllers are good first targets) and do their own crowd control.

nerevarine1138

Double post.

jesterstear

Just target the most dangerous mob and maybe the guy standing next to him, and assist the group with your secondary skills. DPS, if that's your thing, or debuffs (Dragon Knights rejoice). Personally, as a Templar, I help out with the healing as I tank. My mana won't last long compared to a dedicated healer, but these trashmobs have like 3 hit points anyway, the fight shouldn't last long enough for that to matter.

OZGODUSA

mimic57 wrote: »

Anyone know the best ways to aoe tank (which aoe ability's cause the most aggro?).

Thanks!

There's no AOE tanking in this game. You won't be able to hold aggro with more than one mob at most. Pick the most dangerous one and your teammates will have to ghetto tank the others.

Orchish

mimic57 wrote: »

Guys.. chill. Am I the only one that can't pull just one mob? I have yet to be in a Dungeon and be able to pull just one group. The entire room pulls every time. I'm only doing the lvl 15 dung.

You might want to better explain your OP next time, it's little wonder people are telling you not to tank entire rooms when the OP is asking how to aoe taunt an entire room, yet now you're saying you cannot even pull one mob?

You won't be able to pull just one mob from the same group, once you attack one mob the whole lot will come. Just root them down and taunt the main threat. Let the dps guys kill off the rest.