Reasons not to Tank in ESO(Both Group and Solo Play), Is it not Attractive?

Sinolai · March 2018

DPS wins all Day every Day

Playing solo as tank is painful so their number is low. I never kill anything but dwelve / dungeon / world bosses since it would take for ever to kill all trash. Healer atleast has good surcicality, huge magicka pool and spammable damage abilities, even if it doesnt hit that hard. Tank has mostly hp and survival skills.

Sinolai · March 2018

DPS wins all Day every Day

lolo_01b16_ESO wrote: »

Powerful assault armour looks ugly. It's the tanking equivalent to spell power cure, why can't it look as nice as xivkyn light armour?

it can now, thamks to outfit system

Alcast · March 2018

Its boring if you suck at it. Its insanely difficult to master.

I only know of a handful of good tanks in the whole game that manage to keep good uptimes on buffs/debuffs, position of mobs etc.

Tasear · March 2018

DPS wins all Day every Day

Iselin wrote: »

ESO is too reliant on gimmicky tricks in group content (especially in DLC dungeons) that makes tanking only occasionally useful and when the tank's spot is filled by a real tank it's always a net group DPS loss, especially in normal content.

Tanking needs more group buff abilities that significantly increase the group's damage output not just by small token amounts with redundant buffs everyone else is already using. The group needs to feel noticeably enhanced when a real tank is in the party.

As long as DPS and healers can run around with enough defensive CP and self shields and other mitigation that they are pretty tanky themselves real tanks are marginalized except in the most demanding content.

Not enough external buffs for healer or tank to provide. We just aren't useful compared to a dps. Game needs more teamwork available between roles.

TelvanniWizard · March 2018

Heavy Armor does not make my character more "Tanky"

Heavy armor should be way more damage resistant.

MacCait · March 2018

Other: Please Explain

I used to DPS in every game... never liked tanking as standing there and just holding block is way to boring... then I came to ESO and always found it hard to find a tank for our group... so one day I made a NB tank (3.5 years ago) and that was it... fell in love with NB tanking and it became my main. So fast and furious and so many things to concentrate on... its hard, but thats why I like it...

However, the nerf to sustain did really hits tanks hard, especially the NB tank. I imagine that's one reason you don't see as many tanks these days.

I would also guess, based on my own story, that many people just do not realise how fun tanking can be. Most people just want to kill kill kill (though certain tank builds can really add to the dps and feel like a Battle Tank). It could be that people never really move out of their comfort circle and try anything else. Shame, because 80% of damage dealers i see in game have terrible damage.

idk · March 2018

slight necro here.

BTW, answer is not provided in the poll. Plenty of tanks in the game. They generally do not chance pugging groups and stick to guild groups.

Vapirko · March 2018

Other: Please Explain

Generally it’s just kind of boring imo. Maybe vet trials are more exciting but most dungeons are pretty lame. Plus if you get stuck with bad dps is horrible. Although why people don’t learn to do some basic tanking is beyond me. It’s by far the easiest way to grind undaunted, you can queue so quickly.

ZOS_Ragnar · March 2018

We have closed this thread as it was originally posted in 2016 and resurfaced only recently. Often old threads like this can have outdated information and can be disruptive. For this reason we often close threads when they are necro'd. If you feel that this topic warrants additional discussion, feel free to open a new thread about it.