You need both types of skills as a tank

As a tank, most of your Stamina will go into blocking as well as the melee taunt. There are a bunch of other Stamina skills to.use like Heroic Slash, Guard and Vigor but you'll need to make sure you still have the Stamina left to keep blocking until the.next pot or Shard/Orb synergy

Your other skills will be Magicka to help mitigate damage by buffing up (Ice Fortress) or Healing (Enchanted Growth) while also helping the group (Gripping Shards, Frozen Device)

There are tanks out there who can explain this better than I can, but in the end you're gonna be neefing both types of skills

Nordicly_Responsible wrote: »

Are stamina tanks even a thing? I'm looking at all of my skills, because I want to tank on my warden...but all of the winter (tank) skills are magicka. As a stamina class, who wants to swap between tank and DPS...that seems impossible with this class. So how does one be a tank when so many class skills are magicka?

Like most who answered I don't have any experience on Warden tanks so hopefully my experience on my dk tank can transfer over.

The only magicka skills that I use on my dk are my main buff (hardened armor), my aoe cc (talons), my group buff/sustain skill (igneous), and my mob consolidator (chains). As for stamina, I use pierce armor, vigor, heroic slash, elude (I use tavas), inner beast, and absorb magic.

I use inner beast bc I spam the *** outta chains so I need to save my magicka. In your case you can use inner beast as your mob consolidator. You can also use unstoppable for your main buff and maybe circle of protection for your group buff.

These are all stamina variants that are kinda similar to their magicka counterparts. More importantly, these skills are available to every class. So you don't need to be a hybrid like most tanks. Alternatively, you can just use magicka gear/glyphs if you do wanna go the hybrid route.