As I don't care about top end vet stuff I don't worry about all the trial tank armour sets. It didn't take me too long to get enough ebon, imperium and battalion defender, and several of the other niche sets are overland so easy to get anyway (beekeeper, pariah, etc). I don't have the fancy trial sets and probably will only ever accumulate them by accident as I rarely do trials (too mechanical, too complicated to organize)

Many of the general healing sets are also pretty easy to get. Winters respite is great and overland, sanctuary is easy to farm, hiti is not too bad. Think I have about 5 usable healing sets but it's very rare I change them around for dungeon content.

Much of it was obtained by doing dungeons as a 4 man guild group where we all wanted some things and just traded at the end so everyone got the set they wanted. It doesn't take many trips to get a good set of pieces.

I'm a healer main, and my second choice is to tank. I don't really like DPSing in high-end content because there is so much toxicity about what numbers your hitting as a DPS, and I don't have enough time in my life to spend days in front of a dummy perfecting my rotation. In fact, I switch between characters too much to really stay on a super solid rotation with one character either.

To me, DPS is so rigid in that there really is only one way to play to maximize your DPS - practice your rotation and stick to it and perfect it. And that is just not how I want to play the game. When I heal or tank, I get to react to a situation and not just go mindlessly through my rotation, so I feel more engaged when I do play.

being a good dps in ESO is too stressful (I have neither reflexes, nor precice timing ability and certainly no desire to spend countless hours practicing on a dummy to slightly improve my timing only to still suck relative to what I "should" be outputting) and being a good tank is even more so (thanks to the only threat coming from single target taunt and having such a low damage, that I cannot count on THAT for threat).

being a healer is the least stressful of the 3 dungeon roles for me (still don't enjoy it as much as I do healing in other MMO's mostly due to lack of proper targeting and triage) - so its what I play when I want to do dungeons that I cannot solo.

Healer is currently unneeded in almost all 4 man content, and tanking in trials has never looked enjoyable to me.

I'm not good enough to be a healer or a tank, so I play a DPS.

I mainly do dungeons, I find trials too rigidity and I just don't have the time for them.

Tank is what I main. I just like being the wall for the team. I usually just equip one "selfish" set and one group support set, it's the most comfortable to me.

Healer I usually don't mind doing though people run around like headless chickens too much.

DPS is not my forte. I do it if we need it but the highest i think i've gotten is 35k on a 3/6m dummy. Main problem being my internet isn't the greatest and I mess up somewhere mid rotation and it throws me off.

I dont like playing as tank because I generally dislike melee close ranged battles. I only play ranged roles, no matter the game. I started playing eso as damage dealer, improved to mediocre dps, and decided that permanent squeezeing my build for more dps is not fun. So I became healer, and I love it. It happened in other games too, I start as dd, end up as healer. Tried leveling tank, cannot stand it, all mobs, big-sized bosses, player daedroths and flashy skills block my field of view, no matter what.

UGotBenched91 wrote: »

What keeps you from wanting to play or enjoying certain roles. To be clear the roles in referring to are tank, healer, and dps.

I usually like tanking and healing in MMORPGs but not so much in ESO. Having to collect multiple sets (think it’s like 3-5 just for healer) is a turn off for me. I just want to play the game and work on my mechanical skills. I don’t want to have to worry about grinding that many sets, allocating space for all those sets, having to download more add ons (I really hate how much mmos rely on add ons ) and having to remember which sets I should use for each group or certain trial.

So I DPS and PvP

The visual obstruction issues with tank are probably the biggest complaint I have right now concerning the gameplay in respect to the three combat roles in PvE. I'm so sick of having Daedroths in my face I better not go into detail or I'll get banned for salty language. Healing used to be a real pain in the rear for me too. But they largely addressed this issue awhile back when they included rapid regen and gave us an effective heal that wasn't reliant on having LoS on your target (which just isn't a feasible way to heal on this game).

I never had any game-related issues specifically when playing my DPS. At least not that I can recall.

Also I would love to play an archer/ archer build but sadly I need a good solo build and I haven’t found a build that works for solo with only bow

I won't dare dip my toe into vet DPS. With DPS meters, people seeing output, there is no way I want to have to explain that I am 34, have a janky laptop, don't care about the speed of which I can animation cancel, and that I just want to enjoy a dungeon. I much prefer vet heals and normal tanking.

stefj68 wrote: »

Sheezabeast wrote: »

I won't dare dip my toe into vet DPS. With DPS meters, people seeing output, there is no way I want to have to explain that I am 34, have a janky laptop, don't care about the speed of which I can animation cancel, and that I just want to enjoy a dungeon. I much prefer vet heals and normal tanking.

i still feel that animation cancelling/weaving is not realistic... stopping a huge swing half way, to kick instead and getting both results for me feel bad.

i know i have the gear to push for vets contents, but sitting at a dummy for hours, tyring to master a rotation that i have to cheat ... "feel like it' to get the numbers up... i prefer do normal stuff.

Yeah I’m not a fan of animation cancelling myself. It just feels awkward and it’s silly that a glitch was just accepted and allowed to exist. I wonder if it didn’t exist how it would impact dungeons, etc.

I've never healed largely due to the gear farm. I don't have the sets for trial content and most vet dungeons can be done with 3 dps. Might change with sticker book but eh.

theroyalestpythonnub18_ESO wrote: »

I've never healed largely due to the gear farm. I don't have the sets for trial content and most vet dungeons can be done with 3 dps. Might change with sticker book but eh.

Yeah that’s what keeps me from wanting to run a healer. Don’t want to have to store a bunch of sets especially since I’m not eso+.

In a game where you have to do damage in order to progress, playing DD is the easiest and most common sense decision to make. I like everyone else, made characters first that did damage, even when I didn't even know how the combat mechanics in ESO worked during my first year.

The next role I got into was Healing. I have a particular interest in playing Support roles in multiplayers, since I otherwise suck at straight up fighting compared to most other gamers. (The road to AvA Praetorian on my StamBlade was paved in my own corpses) I found Healing to be relatively simple. Tanks and DDs take aggro away from you and Healing spells scale off your offensive stats, so you can build like a DD but slot Healing abilities. Make sure to keep casting on your friendlies and viola, you're a decent Healer. I Healed many a Dungeon and some Trials.

It took me a LONG time to finally build a Tank. The role intimidated me. Tanks to me are the default leader of Dungeon and Trial groups. They're basically what determines if the group will wipe or not, and all that pressure scared me off for a while. But with any role, you'll only get better at it if you actually play it. I looked at builds posted online as guidelines, got the more easier to acquire gear sets, put them on my StamDK and put my foot in the door. At first I Tanked Normal Dungeons before trying some of the easier ones on Vet, all the while editing my build, making some minute changes here and there. Now I'm just fine taking my Tank into most Vet Dungeons. The DLC ones are still iffy, and I have done a couple of them but I'd need a good group and to psyche myself up for them. I already decided I will never Tank a Trial. I don't want 11 players upset with me.