I won't be a tank again until ESO has a one-click, no cost dressing room that lets me effortlessly switch between group and solo setups. If I can sum up my experience with one word it would be Morrowind.

I tried very, very hard to make my main a tank. I know my play style and it's slow, brutal and in your face. I'm no fancy dancer. The forums said running a tank solo was harder but so be it. I did 99% of Tamriel, including beating up Molag Bal, with a sword and board. I spent nearly 2,000 hours of my life mainly developing that one character, since he was the first he had to do everything from soloing mobs and bosses with a one hander to making gear to farming Spriggans for fun and profit and everything in between. I had a build and I had gear and I was ready to rock'n'roll. One of my favorite memories is having the three werewolf bosses in Glenumbra all chasing me as I backed away in a circle while everybody else attacked them and somebody said in chat, "Wow! That's great tanking!"

Then Morrowind happened (if you don't know, Morrowind wrecked stamina recovery and made tanks more dependent on support players in a group - horrible if you also need to solo). I didn't give up immediately but in the end I did and switched my tank to a DW DPS. I laugh now at how easy the main game is as a DPS and how I now breeze through enemies that I once found frightening, but I had DPS alts for that and to this day I feel sad about my main. But it's just too hard to run a tank setup anywhere outside a group and he's not a dedicated group character, he's my main.

So that's it. I will never again attempt to make a tank until ZOS wake up to themselves and make it viable to run solo and group setups. Which I don't think they ever will. And that's why I'll never run a tank again.

You do not need more tanks but Dungeon Finder to get fix

Stop turning tanks into a buff-bot that hits like a wet noodle.

I've always mained tank in the MMORPGs I've played, but ESO is the first MMO where I gave up on tanking. With a "proper" build, you deal no damage, and you're purely there to taunt the boss and support your group. Even healers deal more damage than tanks in ESO.

I'm not asking for tanks to have insane damage, but rework them in a way where they can stand on their own. When I do tank, it's on tanky DPS characters where I can carry the team through the dungeon if needed.

A group pull would be nice. Single target taunts is garbage. To see how tank pulls would make it more fun, play the crappy game DC Universe online. The game sucks, but they got tanking right.

david_m_18b16_ESO wrote: »

Just make group beeing 6 members, it would give twice the spot for dps then voila. Problem solved.

Like it would be that easy. It would mean rebalancing every boss fight for 6 persons and that wouldn't be as simple as increasing the boss HP by 50%.

Unnerf heavy armour and sword and board.

My tank is an alternate character, that I usually play only when I want to tank a dugeon or trial. I pay the coin to respec and I change armor and weapons when I want to use it overland, like for leveling a new skill, or playing as a DPS for an event. Switching is a hassle, so my tank gets played less than my other characters.

david_m_18b16_ESO wrote: »

Just make group beeing 6 members, it would give twice the spot for dps then voila. Problem solved.

No just make them all one member - tank! Give more damage abilities to the tank and they don't need anyone else.

Increase to six would just dilute the tank role further. If three DPS think they can ignore the tank, then five certainly would.

Perhaps a skill in the Sword n board that slowly built up from amount of damage absorbed could be redirected and fired off at a target making it more offensive.

Reason I don’t like idea of tanking for myself is...it simply seems boring...