Dragonknight and Tank.

My main is a DK Tank, Dragonknight is my favorite class in general. DK has a nice set of skills that are great for Tanks, they also have chains (although changes in Summerset may force me to switch to Silver Leash), and some great CC skills.

I've always enjoyed playing Tanks. I love that type of role, protecting my fellow group mates while being able to control the battlefield are two of my favorite things to do in MMOs. Plus the near non-existent wait time for Tanks in group finder for dungeons is always a huge a plus, it makes farming gear a lot easier for my other characters.

Stamsorc DPS just because it was exotic at the time and i have stuck with it through thick and thin

Love the mobility and fun of the class

I started this game with an Argonian DK tank. He's still rock solid but he's mostly a crafter these days. If you like to tank, DK is definitely a class that should be on the short list.

More recently I've been playing a Sorc. I started him out as a stamina build sorc-tank, but for the last few months he's been a magic build DPS. He's a trash mob killer and melts everything in his path. I always appreciated these guys when playing as a tank because they speed up the dungeon run significantly.

Magplar and Tank.

They don't synergize al lthat well with the meta, so it's more of a 'cleric' than a tank. Nothing like healing/tanknig a vet dugeon with 3 DPS burning everything down.

Haven't had much success on the harder dungeons, though. DK takes the cake there.

I'm currently enjoying my runs-real-fast Orc StamSorc. Made the character to harvest materials quickly but I'm finding that I enjoy playing the character in just about any situation. The ultra high movement speed is way more satisfying that I would have imagined and StamSorcs have a cool set of skills that they bring to the table.

I like Nightblade, purely for the gameplay utility of cloak, but my preferred class would be more along the lines of elemental druid otherwise, were there such a thing (think Dragonknight raw power but with lightning and frost), and my preferred role is to be very survivable (so, tank) and otherwise utility and support oriented (I like builds that can solo, but I'd rather be an off healer than any kind of DPS any day of the week). So, basically, I like everything and want to be able to do everything.

While I experimented with Dragonknight in the beta way back when, since launch on PC my main has been a Nightblade, and over time he's gotten more specialized as a tank, usually with a few off heals. Because of the Summerset changes, as nice as they are to tanks, I think I may finally switch him to healer/DPS, purely for the changes to cloak (I want the utility of going invisible, but I want it defense oriented as a tank, which with Summerset they're making it one or the other). This all is of course completely avoiding the challenge of trying to be an optimized build while still having the utility I like for overworld exploration. Nightblades are not the best tanks according to the meta, even then. But even with a subpar cake I prefer to have my cake and eat it too.

Warden healer

Rerolled my main from MagBlade to Warden with the Morrowind update, been playing almost exclusively on it ever since. I still love the class a lot despite the... recent... uhm... setbacks...

Dragonknight Tank. Well over a years worth of actual play time.

Their tankiness and Crowd Control was too good to give up for other classes and being able to control and dictate the battlefield is my way to play. Do similar things in PvP too, love denying people areas or movements. Do the same on my Warden and Sorc tank.

Magplar. I don't have any other classes over level 25.

I've played templar in every roll and main spec. Very fun skills and animations

He was originally a recreation of my favorite Skyrim build. I made a nord mage who only was allowed to heal and damage with dragon shouts. I would choose a tanky damage dealing companion and run around doing nothing but stayin alive and healing him. Was actually much more difficult to play than it sounds. And very exhausting. Everything took forever to kill. Fun tho

Tasear wrote: »

Littlebluelizard wrote: »

Nightblade.

I kinda learned to do all roles since I relloed every combo possible on the same character, stamblade, magblade, sap tank, healblade, gankblade and so on. My favorite was Sap Tank pre-Morrowind patch, but the nerf to siphoning attacks killed the playstyle. I still play tank so maybe that's can count as my prefered role. In PvP I play DD/Off Healer with Transmutation + DPS set.

Will upcoming changes with Summerset let you enjoy Nightblade tanking more?

Not if you value the ability to go invisible...

Nightblade is my favorite class by far but as for role, they all kind of suck IMO.

I typically like healing in MMOs but ESO makes it very boring; you're more a support DPS with some healing thrown in. Your whole job is either painfully dull because everyone is fully capable or painfully stressful because they're squishy, standing in stupid or something else that makes your life unnecessarily difficult.

Tanking I typically hate doing and while I have a DK, Warden and NB tank, the role has the same problem as Healers; Buff totem support with very little variety in decent sets/abilities just makes it meh for me and the typically low damage they deal doesn't help either (god I miss Sap Tanking )

Stamina is very restrictive in general. Only Warden is relatively different from the rest as it doesn't overly rely on weapon skills for its rotation because it has plenty of class abilities it can use without having to rely almost entirely on outside support to fill the gaps. Idk how StamDK does it with only 2 stamina morphs in their toolkits and some supportive Magic Skills like Molten Weapons to back it up. I still prefer my Stamblade as they do have some great stamina abilities but Stamina DPS in general are just copies of each other with a handful of skills thrown in to differentiate each other but not enough to make them feel unique.

Magic DPS is probably in the best spot in terms of diverse skills/sets/etc. only weapon variety is lacking. Fire and Lighting Staff and that's it. I mean, you can technically go SnB or Dual Wield but your sustain drops like a rock in water for it.

IDK, maybe I'm just being overly critical but roles in ESO are pretty bland when you think about it.

Tasear wrote: »

Littlebluelizard wrote: »

Nightblade.

I kinda learned to do all roles since I relloed every combo possible on the same character, stamblade, magblade, sap tank, healblade, gankblade and so on. My favorite was Sap Tank pre-Morrowind patch, but the nerf to siphoning attacks killed the playstyle. I still play tank so maybe that's can count as my prefered role. In PvP I play DD/Off Healer with Transmutation + DPS set.

Will upcoming changes with Summerset let you enjoy Nightblade tanking more?

Yes, definitly. Obviously not the same thing as the original Sap Tank, but still better than live. The Strife nerfs will hurt though, it will cost pretty much the same as Sap Essence, while doing a lot less for us. Might not be worth the slot anymore to be honest... Replacing it with the new Dark Cloak seems the ideal.

EDIT: Obviously it needs more testing, I use Funnel Health, maybe Swallow Soul it's worth the slot. We will see.