The 2016 election made me make a tank... it was just a matter of who won for race and name...

Picked up a sword and a shield

I became a tank when I started playing before One Tamriel because I made a Dragonknight as my first character while playing with a friend who was playing a squishy nightblade. It worked out very well - I tanked the enemies while my friend killed them.

Once we started doing group dungeons with friends after One Tamriel, it was very natural to stick with the tanking role.

All of my characters were tanks at some stage in order to max out undaunted. It is the easiest way to get groups through the group finder as the queue times for tanks is near instant regardless of what dungeons you pick on the finder.

You don't even have to change your toons mundis, cp or attribute points. Just put on tank sets and you should be fine to tank most of the vet dungeons.

Even after I've completed the undaunted skill line on all my toons, half of them still carry around a tank set just it case they need to tank something.

Been tanking since my World of Warcraft days. Mained a druid, was a healer at first until feral became viable, and then started into the tanking scene. Basically what pushed me towards tanking was the fact that I wanted to play a feral druid (shapeshifter) - but at launch only druid healers were accepted in raids, and then when the later patches came around that made feral druids viable they were only really good as tanks (damage was still a secondary role and not nearly as good as warlocks, rogues, shadowpriests, etc). So, in order to get a spot in dungeons and raids as a feral druid, I had to be a tank. Turns out, it was a natural role for me - I've always been good at it and I loved being front and center fighting huge bosses (and feeling like a bawss myself, lol).
I eventually went on to tank in WoW with a paladin, warrior, death knight, and even a rogue (gimmick, really, dodgetanked onyxia a couple of times when getting 100% dodge chance was possible on a rogue).

When I went on to other games, I kept at it. In Global agenda I played a robotics, which was really a support/hybrid character but if built right made a pretty darn good tank. In Star wars: the old republic I played a powertech bounty hunter tank, and later a jedi shadow tank and sith warrior tank.

Here, I started off as a nightblade and didnt actually get into tanking until year 2 or so. Tried numerous dps roles and just never felt like I was doing all that well with it, but once I started really getting into doing dungeons and trials I went back to tanking and havent stopped since. I do still play healers and dps occasionally but I've tanked on every class in ESO now at one point or another, and continue to do so on my warden and dragonknight.

Funny thing is, I tend to dislike the big heavy-armored warrior stereotype characters in most RPGs. I prefer hybrid characters that look a little more agile and capable of various roles. One reason I loved the druid so much in WoW was because of its versatility - you could swap from tanking to dps to healing on the fly. In karazhan I remember tanking one of the bosses in bear form, and both healers died to aoe, so I seamlessly shifted out, revived them, and went back to bear form before even getting hit again, was a beautiful moment that saved the raid group from a wipe and made me the hero that night. Always looking for situations like that =P

My favorite character in ESO, by far (with gusto), is the warden. Reminds me so much of my old wow druid and what he was capable of. I may not be able to shapeshift this time around (well, I can, but only into a werewolf), but being able to tank and heal at the same time while putting out at least moderately decent damage is exactly what I look for in a character, and the nature theme doesnt hurt either.

I think tanks and healers have to be very reactive players..... where as dds must be super efficient in their rotations, movement, builds etc etc if they wanna be good!
There are two very different types of player here, and seems to me folk gravitate one way or the other.

I also get quiet satisfaction when at the end of a good run dds are patting themselves on the back cos they managed awesome numbers and a super fast run and didn't die etc........ *whispers your welcome

Got into tanking as I was easier to queue I'll be the first to say that I'm not great at the game but just want to have fun , and I'm.enjoying tanking on both of my wardens

WhoSlappedThePie wrote: »

I went to character creation > created a dragonknight > got him a sword and shield > tank

Lol about right

"Now I am become tank, the carrier of PUGs." - any of my characters, ticking all roles and queueing

Back in 2015 I kept dying in Cadwells' Silver+Gold on my main DK, so I ended up investing in health attributes and heavy armor. With the old pledges in mind tanks were scarse, and with me doing limited damage and having plenty of health, slotting a taunt did the job, and continued developing from there.

Been tanking dungeons (no trials) for about a month until my templar damage dealer was ready, which become my main character. For dungeons my magicka templar could switch between tank, heal & full damage by switching gearsets, and started doing trials as damage dealer too. Meanwhile my DK tank got abandoned for over a year, but I'm now regularly tanking normal trials + vet craglorns & vmol on 'casual runs' on my old DK once we're lacking other tanks. I'm doing decently, but am not as skilled as those who tank as their main. Next to the ocaccional tanking I'm also healing veteran craglorns, and have completed every hardmode except of vAS+2 on my templar DD main.

Must admit that tanking on the newest DLC vet-dungeons is fairly difficult, DD/healing are much easier tasks here. Regular vet dungeons are however very easy as a tank, with older dlc dungeons being in between. One-shotting mechanics + sustain are tasks I need to work on regarding my tank.

No real tanking experience in pvp, other then 'tanky' builds.