Dragon knight tank ?

SwordBreaker33 · October 2018

becuse there are so freaking many builds and some outdated proboly can you guys point me to a tank build for dragon knight I just become Champion 160 well 164 to be correct but I just so I want a build that can help me in dungons and such until I can get better gear right now I can make Rubedite armor but I need to unlock more traits before I can craft any special armors or such so.

I wish for a build that points me to what skills.Atribute points and champion points to use as a dragon knight tank with Rubedite gear.

DocFrost72 · October 2018

https://woeler.eu/eso-dragonknight-tank-build/

Jim_Pipp · October 2018

Doc Frost72 is absolutely right

DocFrost72 wrote: »

https://woeler.eu/eso-dragonknight-tank-build/

Woeler is widely appreciated as the tank guru, so he has a few DK tank builds.

You may be particularly interested in his build for beginner DK tanks https://woeler.eu/eso-dragonknight-beginner-tank-build/ which has champion point allocations for 160cp characters. You may notice that it recommends hist bark which is getting changed next patch, but I believe it may actually buff tanks.

You can also always find up to date builds on https://alcasthq.com/. Alcast and Woeler colaborate a lot, even running some other ESO resources together.

SwordBreaker33 · October 2018

Jim_Pipp wrote: »

Doc Frost72 is absolutely right

DocFrost72 wrote: »

https://woeler.eu/eso-dragonknight-tank-build/

Woeler is widely appreciated as the tank guru, so he has a few DK tank builds.

You may be particularly interested in his build for beginner DK tanks https://woeler.eu/eso-dragonknight-beginner-tank-build/ which has champion point allocations for 160cp characters. You may notice that it recommends hist bark which is getting changed next patch, but I believe it may actually buff tanks.

You can also always find up to date builds on https://alcasthq.com/. Alcast and Woeler colaborate a lot, even running some other ESO resources together.

Sweet thanks a beginner DK tank can be good I always been dps so it may help. Yeah I heard about hist bark but if I remember for me to craft it I need 6 traits in each item sure I could ask for people to craft it but then I also need some more gold to buy the mats im missing.

jypcy · October 2018

OP— Woeler is definitely a good resource for tank builds but it sounds like you’re just getting started, so refer more to the beginner tank guide in Jim’s post instead of the main tank guide in Doc’s. Not suggesting you can’t make use of the main tank guide, but that more of the concepts in there won’t be useful to you just yet.

I highly recommend seeing if a crafter is willing to make some gear for you (this may cost 10k+ gold) just so that you can get set bonuses. You probably don’t need them right off the bat, but they’ll help boost your stats, which will help make up for the champion points you don’t have yet. Or, look around on guild traders and see if you can buy a set for cheap. The beginner guide recommends some sets and those look fine to me.

The skills that the beginner guide has listed are mostly good for you. I don’t know that you’d get much use out of deep breath, so slotting absorb magicka there’s so it’s active on both bars might work better.

Re: stats, yeah, I think 35k+ health and around 17-20k magicka and stamina pools work well. You can use UESP’s eso build editor to play around with enchantments and attribute allotments until you get numbers you like so that you don’t have to spend a bunch of gold trying out different combinations. And remember, those stat numbers take into account purple tri-stat food. And for resists, if you can hit at least 25k for each that should be plenty for you right now.

One final word of advice: up to you, but I recommend maybe not using the random vet dungeon queue just yet. Most dungeons you’ll likely be able to complete fine, but if you get thrown into a vet DLC dungeon, it might leave a bad taste in your mouth when it comes to tanking.

FrancisCrawford · October 2018

I don't tank myself, but anyhow:

Dropped sets can be cheaper than crafted ones, especially if you're OK with green or blue armor with not-great traits ... and you should be at this time.
Plague Doctor is, I presume, a great set to learn on.
Potentially useful crafted sets that don't require many traits to craft include Torug's Pact, Seducers, and Whitestrake's Retribution. I'm sure there are others as well, but Torug's in particular is at times regarded as a "meta" set.

Hateanthem · October 2018

Ebon (5 pc - Cradle of Hearts I & II) drop. Totally worth farming. I run (3) jewelry, infused chest, sturdy boots.
Torugs Pact (5pc - Craftable). Light waist, medium hands (for the undaunted passive. can ignore passive and go full heavy or 6-1 if you prefer)

In the beginning don't worry too much about your monster set. When you get comfortable I recommend farming vet imperial city prison for a heavy helm for the Lord Warden's set.

Getting Ebon and Torug's is super easy though and puts you on the path to being a solid tank and improving your groups damage output.

Wroebel and Alcast both have great guides on their sites as well.

Welcome to ESO tanking and have a ton of fun.

idk · October 2018

DocFrost72 wrote: »

https://woeler.eu/eso-dragonknight-tank-build/

This, and as someone pointed out you can take a look at Alcast's builds as well. Both run in the same circles.

jypcy · October 2018

Hateanthem wrote: »

Ebon (5 pc - Cradle of ShadowsI & II) drop. Totally worth farming. I run (3) jewelry, infused chest, sturdy boots.

Just make sure to try farming this in Crypt of Hearts because you probably won’t see many pieces drop in Cradle of Shadows

Hateanthem · October 2018

jypcy wrote: »

Hateanthem wrote: »

Ebon (5 pc - Cradle of ShadowsI & II) drop. Totally worth farming. I run (3) jewelry, infused chest, sturdy boots.

Just make sure to try farming this in Crypt of Hearts because you probably won’t see many pieces drop in Cradle of Shadows

Thanks for fixing that. I sat there for a couple of minutes thinking I had it wrong, but for some reason typed it anyway.

SwordBreaker33 · October 2018

Thanks allot every one for the awesome tips thanks allot yeah I Followed the beginner tank guide and I did notice was missing allot of skills at least passive ones on medium and light armor. I will try farm for Ebon.

Joxer61 · October 2018

https://www.xynodegaming.com/almost-immortal-warrior

Mister_DMC · October 2018

Don't forget about Liofa, he was my first resource years ago to learn to tank.

Sparr0w · October 2018

You can go 2 ways with tanking, either stacking health or stacking resources, so attribute points are however you like, just have stamina a little higher than magicka so you get more stamina from synergies.

You can then go high regen or using a skill such as meditate or balance, so this will decide whether you need to put points into magicka regen or not.

CP mainly stack block cost reduction from green, healing and magicka crit damage from blue & direct damage from red.

Gear sets the 'meta' is Lord Warden/Ebon/Alkosh since it will provide you with high health, high resistance as well as providing your group with health and a lot of damage through penetration.

Gear sets you can choose are:
Monster

Lord Warden - High resistance for you and your group
Bloodspawn - High resistance for you & ulti gen
Thauvokun - trash AoE minor maim
1pc Shadowrend 1pc Chokethorn - High regen
Earthgore - Healing in intensive fights (e.g. vCR), pair with Vigor
Rkugamz - Healing and Stamina for fights where you're on your own and need to block a lot (vAA Axes)

Body

Ebon - High health for you & a bit of health for your group
Alkosh - Big AoE resistance debuff on mobs from synergys
Akaviri Dragonguard - Reduced Ultimate cost
Powerful Assault - Damage buff for 4 people in your group (pair with warhorn and vigor)
Plague doctor - a heap of health, selfish set but great for fights when you're on your own (vAA axes, vAS)
Seducer - Mag cost reduction, same as above & also great in dungeons
Torugs - more defensive version of Alkosh, less debuff but more resistance and health

Necessary skills:

Puncture - Taunt & resistance debuff
Heroic Slash - Maim and ulti gen
Igneous/Fragmented shield - group shield & your source of stamina while blocking
Hardened/Volatile armour or Balance - Source of major resistance buffs
Inner rage/Fire - Ranged taunt
Warhorn - Massive group DPS increase + Ultimates are a source of sustain

Optional Skills:

Choking Talons - AoE maim and root, needed in trash pulls and certain boss fights (1st boss vMoL)
Chains - Pull mobs to you, same reason as above
Engulfing flames - 10% fire damage debuff on the mobs, increases group DPS
Meditate/Balance - Magicka recovery
Blockade of Shock - Sets enemies off balance & applies enchant on cooldown
Green dragon blood - 33% missing health heal (can crit)
Vigor - Nice HoT

Sure there's a couple things I've missed, but thats everything I could think of at the moment.

EDIT: For starting out you could look at Leeching Plate for a lot of healing in trash pulls.

Woeler.eu Alcasthq.com Transcendgaming.co are my go to places. Naming @Woeler and @Liofa as great tanks, check out Liofa's discussions on here for DK and Warden builds, Woeler's builds are on his site.

Liofa · October 2018

Even though I appreciate people suggesting my builds, I have to say that they are not for beginners. There are great beginner friendly tank builds already suggested in here. I would suggest going with them. If you try my builds with low CP and no experience, you will die and/or run out of resources all the time. My builds are optimised for 12 man end-game content which I don't think are your aim currently. When you hit high CP and start to have some interest in high end content, tag me (like this: @Liofa ) and I'll be glad to help you out.

SwordBreaker33 · October 2018

Liofa wrote: »

Even though I appreciate people suggesting my builds, I have to say that they are not for beginners. There are great beginner friendly tank builds already suggested in here. I would suggest going with them. If you try my builds with low CP and no experience, you will die and/or run out of resources all the time. My builds are optimised for 12 man end-game content which I don't think are your aim currently. When you hit high CP and start to have some interest in high end content, tag me (like this: @Liofa ) and I'll be glad to help you out.

Okey thanks I will remeber that yeah right now im far far away from high cp and even thinking about it I need to learn tank becuse I played my Dragon night as dps but that job is taken for my warden.

Rungar · October 2018

im having some fun with dragon and jorvulds combo. 2400 mag regen (infused mag regen jewlery/barrier), long warhorns and sometimes endless warhorns!

only downside is a little lower health at 37k but you can spam shields/dragon blood forever to compensate lol.

aeowulf · October 2018

DK is easy mode tanking

Best sustain for any class in that role & the only class that doesn't need to slot a specific skill to get it, freeing up a slot for extra utility

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Kharjas · October 2018

Is baharas and leeching plate sets good for a 4man dungeon PUG dktank?

Seems that with the 5 piece of both is a lot of incoming health?