Got tired of the pissing contest that is DPS meters, so I tend not to do that much anymore. Having a lot more fun after I switched to tanking.

As for healing, I tried it for a little while, but never could get into being a dedicated healer. Just didn't find it fun at all.

I usually play as a healer but I sometimes switch over to DPS for dungeons or arenas. Not for trials tho because I'm not that confident as a DPS for those.

I don't play a tank atm, which is kinda ironic since I started as a tank in this game I did try tanking again during early 2020 when I respecced and race changed my Warden, and I had a very good experience with it overall. I learned a lot from it

Becasue I'm a templar...tanking isn't exsactly an option for this class

I play all roles, depending on how I feel or what guildies need help with. Its fair to say my preference for end game is healing. But I go through phases, for a couple of years I was dps, then for a couple more healz, then I tried tonking and learned that and made my way back to healz n dps mainly now. For pvp like most, I am dps focused for all char.

In pve I find healing can be really rewarding, keeping the team alive, protected, buffed and supporting with dps. Sadly, healing is less and less relevant in more and more content and therefore those times you get that highly rewarding and satisfying healing experience are much less often. I mean very often were running x3 dps and a tank for 4 person content, for instance. I would also say that healing is the most challenging and times consuming role to spec for, the sets needed run well into double figures when you are at end game and that is a right pain in the rear, especially if you have more than one healer as I do.

Tanking can be really enjoyable sometimes, there are few more satisfying experiences Ive had than carrying groups through difficult content, saving multiple wipes, rezing the whole team multiple times etc. I mean you hear the group in chat talking about how its a wipe as they all go down, while you set about rezing everyone of them and you pull things back and beat that final boss, that you had to fight on your own for large spells... and afterwards everyone is thanking you, its a real nice sense of satisfaction and you feel good cos you helped folk. Those really involved and challenging opportunities come along occasionally, but more often than not I feel tanking can be a bit boring in terms of game play, particularly when its a good team and everything goes well (similar to healing really). Thats the reason I dont tank as much as healz or dps, I like it, but practically speaking healz and dps provide enjoyment, crucially - more often.

I enjoy dps, that is where the most variety is to be found I feel, in terms of play styles and thematic, with a wider range of class, both stam and magica to build around, than healing or tanking. Sadly, my dps does not compete with the higher end of the spectrum, being as it is stuck around the 50k mark, back when I was concerned with this, which I no longer am so dont practice or parse very often now at all. Im also maining pvp now, (where burst is more important), before I was almost exclusively pve. High dps helps in pvp of course but things like ganking and bombing and large groups and chaotic battles, all help level the playing field for mortals like me.

Glurin wrote: »

notyuu wrote: »

Becasue I'm a templar...tanking isn't exsactly an option for this class

Says who? Bishop Metatemp of the Church of the Meta? Just grab a sword and shield and go hurl a few yo mama jokes at the nearest boss.

yeah, then my lack of group utility and overall tanky-ness means I can't get into group content where a tank is actually needed, meaning I'm basically playing a *** dps

tl;dr been down tank road, didn't work at all, bad times were had.

Cause I simply like supporting people more as healer

I have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome so I mainly heal or tank because my APM is terrible due to hand pain. That being said, I actually do enjoy the roles.

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

I don't really know where to begin.
There's very little incentive for me to do trials, as I see no "good" reason for it.
In other games there's usually a need to get new gear, in order to progress further into raids/dungeons. Without the new/better gear the new mechanics / outgoing damage / increased hp pools become too much; new gear is needed.

That's not ESO.
The biggest differentiator between a "good" player and a "bad" player isn't the gear, it's the invested time and how much the player has learned to control their own character. For example, you can see some streamers using completely sub-par builds, but because they have a lot of experience it doesn't really matter; their performance is still better than most others.

So this, in short, are my reasons for why I don't even care about trials; if I go for a trial I can still carry my own weight.
However dungeons, with their gear, can be extremely good for both pve and pvp.

Tanking can be very fun, but it's only fun if the groups overall experience is somewhat even. Having DPS doing extremely low amounts of damage is a complete drag when I have to taunt a group of mobs 5 times, before it's finally dead. So I only really tank for people I know that can carry their own weight.
Healing can be fun, if you got a premade group. Your buffs matters, they actually increase the DPS, your debuffs/buffs/synergies helps the tank and their sustain. In a subpar group these things makes little to no difference. The synergies aren't being used and the buffs/debuffs doesn't make a notable difference.
DPSing is almost always fun. I can change my food if I don't get enough sustain, I got good enough survivability so that I don't need heals unless I completely mess it up; I can take care of myself

TL;DR
I don't bother with trials.
For PUG dungeons I only DPS, because PUG's usually have no idea what they're doing.
For premade groups I can enjoy everything. But if I don't need the gear then I don't need the dungeon.

I despise tanking in this game, but like it in FFXIV, WoW, Rift, SWTOR etc.

But it's just s°°°°° here

In order of preference, I play Healer, Tank and DPS. Usually in pre-made groups I'll be healer or tank, because that's what's missing. In Trials, I'm whatever is needed to fill the group.

In PUGs, I usually heal or tank. I can do enough DPS on either that finishing a normal dungeon is not going to be an issue.