Best race for a magic DK Tank

Tiitus · July 2016

As the title says...

pretending to be a min/maxer, was an argonion but since they keep playing with the passives id rather choose a class that is solid.

AverageJo3Gam3r · July 2016

Argonian is actually perfect for a tank. Max health, healing received, and in next update max magicka. Potion passive is great too to get back stam. The max magicka is well worth the 4% loss to healing received.

mistermutiny89 · July 2016

Breton is the next dk I'm rolling. More magicka, cost reduction for all those super expensive dk skills and extra spell resistance to stack in case you go vamp.

Dunmer is also a nice choice from a dps perspective. But although giving fire resistance at a flat rate it still equals less than Bretons, plus dunmers are ugly. Haha.

Tiitus · July 2016

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

Argonian is actually perfect for a tank. Max health, healing received, and in next update max magicka. Potion passive is great too to get back stam. The max magicka is well worth the 4% loss to healing received.

The passive were changed again

Quick to Mend: This passive now grants a 1/3/5% bonus to both healing done and healing received, instead of a 3/6/9% bonus to only healing done.

and max magicka is only 3% (this took away the max health passive) and the potion passive garbage, lol im required to spend money for what other classes get by default and its on a 45 CD

Argonians are in a bad place jack-of-none..

AverageJo3Gam3r · July 2016

@Tiitus take a look again. Max magicka is being added. Argonians keep max health passive.

Personofsecrets · July 2016

Imperial

ListerJMC · July 2016

My magicka DK tank is an Altmer and I love it! Awesome regen and a nice big magicka pool.

If I was min-maxing though I feel like Dunmer would be a better choice since they get a stamina bonus as well as a magicka one, and their bonus fire damage works well with the class skills.

M_TeK_9 · July 2016

I don't think there is such thing as a magic based dk tank. Or even a pure magic tank period. In all cases of tanking you will be the center of enemy attacks. This means stuns, knock backs, roots, fears, knock downs, and some aoe attacks all require a level of stamina to break free or roll out of. Not to mention blocking, Dodge rolling, running and sneaking use up stamina too.

If you want to try and be magic based your best option is a dark elf. You get max magic, magic Regen, and a max stamina bonus which is vital of you plan on tanking trials. You also get a minor fire resistance bonus and if you've played eso you know the majority of pve dungeons are fire heavy.

Just my opinion. Good luck

Brrrofski · July 2016

M_TeK_9 wrote: »

I don't think there is such thing as a magic based dk tank. Or even a pure magic tank period. In all cases of tanking you will be the center of enemy attacks. This means stuns, knock backs, roots, fears, knock downs, and some aoe attacks all require a level of stamina to break free or roll out of. Not to mention blocking, Dodge rolling, running and sneaking use up stamina too.

If you want to try and be magic based your best option is a dark elf. You get max magic, magic Regen, and a max stamina bonus which is vital of you plan on tanking trials. You also get a minor fire resistance bonus and if you've played eso you know the majority of pve dungeons are fire heavy.

Just my opinion. Good luck

You can absolutely be a magica tank. I tank everything with less than 20k stam. Only stam move I use it taunt.

Dumner doesn't get magica regen. Max magica, max stamina, fire damage, fire resistance.

Imperial is a good choice for any tank. Max health and max stam.

AverageJo3Gam3r · July 2016

@M_TeK_9 you haven't spent much time tanking or playing with mDK. DKs have the best stamina management in the game between helping hands and battle roar. MDKs are the easiest class to permablock on.

AnviOfVai · July 2016

I have an Imperial Magicka based Tank, though she was Stamina at first but changed her to Magicka, she is PVP player only though and runs the full Black Rose set and part Hist Bark, really good set and Imperials have good stats in the Max Health area

Praetorrus · July 2016

Imperial. No matter if stam or magicka based build, you'll still need both health and stamina.

Schemering · July 2016

im not sure if its the best for your purpose but dunmer have stamina and magicka bonus; they can be used for stamina dsping magicka dpsing and tanking and i love playing with my magicka dunmer dd that also easily tanks if needed

M_TeK_9 · July 2016

Brrrofski wrote: »

M_TeK_9 wrote: »

I don't think there is such thing as a magic based dk tank. Or even a pure magic tank period. In all cases of tanking you will be the center of enemy attacks. This means stuns, knock backs, roots, fears, knock downs, and some aoe attacks all require a level of stamina to break free or roll out of. Not to mention blocking, Dodge rolling, running and sneaking use up stamina too.

If you want to try and be magic based your best option is a dark elf. You get max magic, magic Regen, and a max stamina bonus which is vital of you plan on tanking trials. You also get a minor fire resistance bonus and if you've played eso you know the majority of pve dungeons are fire heavy.

Just my opinion. Good luck

You can absolutely be a magica tank. I tank everything with less than 20k stam. Only stam move I use it taunt.

Dumner doesn't get magica regen. Max magica, max stamina, fire damage, fire resistance.

Imperial is a good choice for any tank. Max health and max stam.

Only stam move you use is taunt? What about blocking, break out, dodge roll, Sprint, bash?

And yea my mistake on the regen I meant a second max mag bonus

I've tanked everything in this game as a stamina based tank and I only have 20k myself. Claiming to be a magicka tank with 20k stam is quite funny to be honest.

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

@M_TeK_9 you haven't spent much time tanking or playing with mDK. DKs have the best stamina management in the game between helping hands and battle roar. MDKs are the easiest class to permablock on.

Oh really? So you know what classes and races I've played then do you? Lol

Fact of the matter is there are too many things that tanks must do in this game that cost stamina for anyone to legitimately claim a pure magicka tank.

You need stamina. End of story. If you're going to try and utilize magicka for tanking though like I said dark elf gives a bonus to both resources with a slight nod to magicka

OrphanHelgen · July 2016

imperial or nord. They say the dmg reduction passive nords have are useless, but I think its the same as 5000 ressistance actually. And its all types of dmg, not only physical for example. They have good hp pool and will now next patch get stamina as well.

Brrrofski · July 2016

M_TeK_9 wrote: »

Brrrofski wrote: »

M_TeK_9 wrote: »

I don't think there is such thing as a magic based dk tank. Or even a pure magic tank period. In all cases of tanking you will be the center of enemy attacks. This means stuns, knock backs, roots, fears, knock downs, and some aoe attacks all require a level of stamina to break free or roll out of. Not to mention blocking, Dodge rolling, running and sneaking use up stamina too.

If you want to try and be magic based your best option is a dark elf. You get max magic, magic Regen, and a max stamina bonus which is vital of you plan on tanking trials. You also get a minor fire resistance bonus and if you've played eso you know the majority of pve dungeons are fire heavy.

Just my opinion. Good luck

You can absolutely be a magica tank. I tank everything with less than 20k stam. Only stam move I use it taunt.

Dumner doesn't get magica regen. Max magica, max stamina, fire damage, fire resistance.

Imperial is a good choice for any tank. Max health and max stam.

Only stam move you use is taunt? What about blocking, break out, dodge roll, Sprint, bash?

And yea my mistake on the regen I meant a second max mag bonus

I've tanked everything in this game as a stamina based tank and I only have 20k myself. Claiming to be a magicka tank with 20k stam is quite funny to be honest.

AverageJo3Gam3r wrote: »

@M_TeK_9 you haven't spent much time tanking or playing with mDK. DKs have the best stamina management in the game between helping hands and battle roar. MDKs are the easiest class to permablock on.

Oh really? So you know what classes and races I've played then do you? Lol

Fact of the matter is there are too many things that tanks must do in this game that cost stamina for anyone to legitimately claim a pure magicka tank.

You need stamina. End of story. If you're going to try and utilize magicka for tanking though like I said dark elf gives a bonus to both resources with a slight nod to magicka

You can regain that Stamina through magica. You don't need a huge stam pool.

Well having 19.5k stam with low weapon damage and stam regen whilst having 31k magica, 2200 spell damage and 1550 magica regen certainly seems like I'm magica focused.

So yeh, it's a magica tank. I regain stamina though using magica skills. That use only magica.

Any magcia dps that runs try stat food will have 14-15k stam. I don't have a huge amount more than that. Are they not magica based?

Oreyn_Bearclaw · July 2016

I would go Dunmer. Their bonuses might not be the absolute best in slot for tanks, but tanks have way more flexibility than a DPS. Also, you can do way worse than Dunmer for tanking buffs with the boost to both stam (6%) and magic (9%). If you did ever want to DPS, Dunmer is King for sure. If you dont want to go dunmer, I would pic a race that boosts resources like imperial. Mitigation is just not that hard to get in this game. There is no substitute for extra resources.

What others have said is true. You do not need a big stam pool with a magic DK tank. The helping hands passive allows you to convert magic to stam, even while blocking.

yodased · July 2016

I love my imperial, that red diamond + earthen heart passive + heavy armor passive + GDB makes resource management pretty negligible whilst tanking.