I get around that by mostly playing solo. There are tons of soloists in ESO and the game overall is pretty solo-friendly.

Another thought if you enjoy playing with others might be to find a social guild that enjoys going through easier normal dungeons without worrying about how efficient/effective they are as long as they make it through.

One final thought is that, with time and practice, almost any build can get pretty good. Much of it is player skill and experience. My bow/bow sorceress can do some amazing things that we never could have dreamed of a couple years ago. Same with my Bosmeri mages.

I really like how group finer was done in gw2
we had different bookmarks on any activity and any type activity
it was split for open world, raids, dung and ofc for RP's

here you could list your own group in which category you wanted and add description to this for what, for who you are looking and so you wont get group with randoms who wouldn't care for you, if someone might join you they for sure would be up for you want because you set up this in description of your group

or you would be able to join to group of RP's and all would be happy without annyoing anyone and be annoyed by anyone because people wont come to your group if they wont be interesed with what was listed for this group

No offense, but unless your "Jack of all trades" or Mercenary can do decent DPS, its basically just another name for a bad Damage Dealer.

That's also not what "play the way you like" means. When ZOS last talked about it, they said: One of our mantras for ESO is "play the way you want," and in this case, it means any class can fulfill any role (tank, dps, support/healer)....our goal is for every class to be viable, not necessarily optimal, in any role without heavily relying on non-class skill lines."
https://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-us/news/post/57025


So its clear that ZOS expects you to play a role when you queue up for group content like Dungeons, and that "play the way you like" means your Templar should be viable as tank, healer, or DD with a decent build, rather than being locked into a single role like Healer.

It doesn't mean that you can take a heavy armored Magplar wielding stamina-based weapons into a dungeon and expect to do great DPS. Unless, like, you've actually practiced and you do great DPS, in which case your groups shouldn't be complaining.

Find a fun social guild. One of the guilds I am in have tried naked trial runs and all kinds of other stuff. Should be plenty of people that are willing to run a dungeon with your character.
Your character shouldn't want to be around characters that refuse to accept him/her anyway.

You are playing how you want, that does not mean other people have to respond how you want them to....... if you RP as something which sucks, expect the world to respond in turn.

Find an RP guild. That's your best option.

That would do what?
Now, it takes people a moment to realize the folly unfolding before them.
If they add a mercenary role, you brandmark yourself. That is like saying "Hello, I am not that useful, please just endure it."

So they could immediately vote for kick.
I see plenty of subordinate people using questionable setups in dungeons. We silently amuse ourselves and that is it. We just carry them along and good.

Of course, you should not join some very serious DLC dungeon and expect people to be fine with your 5k dps. But other than that, I can not imagine people being that problematic towards roleplay builds. Actually, even I play a roleplaying build as a tank that has nothing to do with any normal tank build and I clear all veteran trials and dungeons with it as a main tank.

If you want to wield a bow and a 2-hander, why are you a Magicka Templar? Which skills do you need as Magicka that you can't use the stamina version? Stamplars are super fun!

And have you considered using the outfit system to hide the armor you are wearing and making it look heavy, even though it's not?

Or, if you want to continue as you are, have you considered adding Sword and Shield as a 3rd weapon and use that in dungeons to tank?

In the context of dungeons, its not so much that ZOS is forcing us into specialised roles, its that generally speaking building specialised characters is the most efficient way to complete content, ie: having dedicated dps and healers achieves better total dps and hps then having a bunch of jack of all trade dps/healers. As such then general idea of tank+healer+2xdps provides a generally solid composition to complete content. If there was another role added, I'm not sure how the looking for group tool would work to form groups with that role, unless as others have raised it simply treats the new role as a "bad" dps, or make it from groups of 4 of this new role (which potentially leaves you with a group composition that may not be suitable to complete content).

Rather, I would instead suggest either doing as others have suggested and find others willing to play in the same way and make your own groups, or, decide if you think your "character/build" concept can be adapted/optimised so that it can adequately fill one of the normal roles (most likely as a dps). In my experience it doesn't have to be the best, just viable, and most players are happy to let you do your thing. I say this as a player who doesn't has spent most of their PvE time using things like magblades with DW or other PvP characters as I don't really have any endgame PvE optimised characters.

If you do want to do this, say to improve the builds performance at a specific role, ie: dps, while still keep the overall character concept and playstyle, then perhaps there are some things you could change to help. But, feel free to totally disregard these if they don't fit how you want to play, as I am aware they may no longer fit what you want. Suiting what you want for the character is the most important.

- If your character concept involves heavy armour, is this because you must wear heavy armour, or do you simply want to "look" heavily armoured. If the latter then perhaps using the outfit system to give the appearance of heavy armour while actually using a more suitable armour type may help increase damage.

- Depending on how your build works in terms of skills used and gear availability and flexibility, there are a couple of approaches that I would be looking at:
1) If you are using stamina weapon skills in conjunction with magicka templar skills, then you would need to look at building as a true hybrid, so sets like Pelinals, Shacklebreaker, New Moon etc with tri glyphs and tri jewellery glyphs are things to consider. CP will be a bit harder as you have to split between mag and physical, but at least the way diminishing returns work mean its not as bad as it could be.
2) If you are simply using 2H and bow for how they look, but then all magicka skills, building full mag, while obviously not optimal with these weapons, should still be somewhat viable especially now light attacks and heavy attacks scale with highest stat. You only really lose out on light attacks being the other damage type so not benefitting from the same pen and CP as all the skills, and your weapon passives don't support your abilities as much as they could (although 2H sword at least is something). The biggest issue with this strategy would be magicka sustain, as you can't restore it by heavy attacking.

The second approach is similar to what I personally do on my "main" (dw/resto or dw/destro magblade) and it seems to get by (although I guess I have the advantage of still having a magicka returning heavy attack on that). Sure it gets some questions and its not like I am doing vet trials or anything with it, but its enough to pull my weight in the PvE content I do and as long as its doing that other players seen happy enough.

Dungeons and Trials are a PvE activity and RPing does not belong there. The exact same case are Cyro, IC and BGs as these are a PvP activities and RPing does not belong there as well. For RPing, there is overland content which is specifically adapted to casual gameplay or RPing in terms of difficulty.

Don't get me wrong, but if you enter winter olympics in a swimsuit, you wouldn't be welcome as well.

This is what "play as you want" motto means. No matter what way you choose or what build you come up with (be it heavy magicka templar with bow and a 2H), there is still content where you fit. But instead of enjoying parts of the game that are made for your playstyle, you complain about those parts that are designed for different kind of players.

Because it's an MMO, not an RPG?



...snd many CRPGs I've played that are actual RPGs, you can't "play how you want", either - there may be plenty of choice-n-consequence, decisions to make, conversations to define your character (you know, role-playing?), but if you make a bad build you'll be stuck unable to progress past combat & skill checks.

I dont get why would you trouble yourself on purpose.

If you want to wear heavy armour you can with outfit system, it will look like heavy armour.

If you want to use two handed, you can put skill point into stamina, you still use some magicka abilities on stamplar.

Every class has a few magicka buff etc skill you use in stamina version

Also, just because they say "play how you want", that doesn't guarantee that you can play all the content that way.

Like - you have a lot more freedom to play however in questing, but if you want to play top-end leaderboard-chasing Vet content, you have a lot less freedom.... except for the fact that choosing to play that content or not, is exercising your freedom to "play how you want" as well.