Frost Staff is a tanking weapon. Dragonknight or Warden are the best choices for class

The Frost staff is the only other option for a tank build that has actual cost reduction through passives.

Now, I have succesfully tanked normal dungeons with a normal DPS running Inner Fire as a taunt, so as long as you know what you are doing, its viable for certain difficulties. Its probably easiest on a mag sorc with those shields - I did it on stam sorc.

i see. So there is chances (question is how big are them cause as Royaji said - hard time finding party). Any advices where i can find builds for that? and what second weapon to use?

mefedoseeveb17_ESO wrote: »

oh and forgot - how much your race affect your character being Viable in his role (Tank in our current example?)

Race probably makes less of an impact for a tank than it does for a DPS at the very top level of content. However, the general rule of thumb for stamina and magicka races still applies.

Stamina: Redguard, Imperial, Orc, Bosmer, Khajiit, Nord (in no particular order)
Magicka: Altmer, Dunmer, Breton

Argonians get a really nice passive that lets them restore all resources from drinking potions, so they make excellent healers and tanks.

So if I had to pick the best tank races, I'd go with Imperial or Argonian, but really anything will work out okay. Especially if you stick to normal and Veteran dungeons, you can tank with anything.

VaranisArano wrote: »

So if I had to pick the best tank races, I'd go with Imperial or Argonian, but really anything will work out okay. Especially if you stick to normal and Veteran dungeons, you can tank with anything.

veteran of veteran dlc like in this post ? i just trying to understand how much i can reach without S+B

What is your margin for "just for lols"? Veteran dungeons? Normal trials (raids)? Veteran DLC dungeons? Veteran trials? Leaderboards runs?

Okay, so I'm not being very specific about the level of content you can do because it really depends on your build and your skill as a player.

My recommendations:

If you are a stam character, use the stam morph of Inner Fire for your taunt, and run a bow, and either Two Handed or Dual Wield and basically play like a DPS except for taunting.

If you are a magicka character, use the Frost Staff and Inner Fire for your taunt, and run either another destro staff or a resto staff as your backbar weapon, depending on whether you need more healing or more DPS.

You'll have to figure out a comfortable level of content for yourself.
Start with the base game Normal Dungeons.
When you feel comfortable with those, try the Normal DLC dungeons which are much more demanding in terms of mechanics.
Then, you can try the easy base game Vet dungeons, working your way to harder ones. Mechanics get much more unforgiving and enemy damage hits harder, so it will have a learning curve for what your tank can survive, must block, must dodge, or simply can't handle.

I don't think that you can do trials content, not because it can't be done, necessarily, but because you'd have to convince your group to let you tank without a one-hand and shield set, and I don't think many groups would be up for that.