Because most people find those roles to be less fun than DD.

Other than a quick random vet very occasionally to remind themselves why they stick with guild/friend groups they mostly don't bother pugging. Same with real damage-dealers.

You'll find them happily playing and grouping with guild-mates and friends for various content.

I find them to be particularly boring and suitably miserable on tank with a low dps group, so unfortunately i just have no interest in performing those roles in these times .If the nature of combat progression was better leading up to dungeons, there might be progress and better enjoyment in that space.

Tanks get no love these days. The only place they are even needed are vet DLC dungeons, and if you pug those, some players don't even understand what a good job you are doing and then you get crap for getting killed when in fact your death was caused by other players not knowing the mechanics of the boss.

So to sum it up, in order to be a good tank, you really need to be an experienced player. Experienced players don't actually NEED to run dungeons as they already have all the gear they need.

Probably something like that with healers too I bet, but I can't speak for that role as I rarely play it.

Because the game doesn't incentivize playing as a tank or healer in overland content at all. There is never a reason to learn those roles for the average player, as everything is "hit it until it's dead" or "fetch this" as far as overland content is concerned.

There is no "Healer School" or "Tank School" just like there aren't any proper tutorials for classes.

Until the introductory sequence is rebuilt from the ground up to teach players how to play the game beyond "these buttons do this, have fun" it won't get any better.

The shortage of healers and tank players creates a larger demand for them in pre-made groups which expands the shortage in queues which in turn increases the appeal of faking as you get a significantly shorter queue time.

As a damage dealer, you have significantly more variety in the weapons and abilities that you can use than as a tank or a healer. As a healer my choices are my class heals, restoration staff abilities, and a small number of heal abilities in other lines. The healing abilities also aren't necessarily that balanced when it comes to providing value which makes the variety drop further.

When it comes to both gearing and ultimate abilities you can end up in the position of feeling you need to run buffing related things rather than something more fun as a tank or healer.

In much of ESO's content significant portions of the damage come from mechanics. As a result, when you are healing you are frequently left with either nothing to do or healing someone that messed up and neither of which really feels great. When you are tanking, you can feel like you need to know every mechanic in advance so that you don't mess up getting yourself or other players killed. Needless to say, as the game has a ton of dungeons which makes all of that memorization into a pain. If you've actually done the work of memorizing the mechanics you can get away with faking in many cases because if you play it right many of the mechanics don't actually hurt.

Damage in ESO is high enough that you can kill things before your limited ability to heal or tank can become problematic for you as a fake. In some cases, if you do enough damage the mechanics don't even play out. This can allow the players that are faking it to have faster and sometimes even cleaner runs.

There're dissonance theory here. My main character is real tank, and my healer is also real build.
But....80% of PUG DPS is fake.

ESO is chaos.

MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »

It makes me question the time and effort I put into developing my build and practicing my skills.

Find yourself a good group of folks running difficult content - you'll be appreciated!

I main a healer and people saying we aren't needed in dungeons is contrary to my actual experience. For most dungeons I heal on front bar and dps on backbar, and I do need to heal more often than you might think. But for trials, depends on the trial. Sometimes I go a full-heals build, other times a more dps/buffing build.

Because quests tend to scale to require dps instead of tanking/healing.
I dont want to re-skill to DD just to farm Skill Points on my tanks/heals.

I created a character once with the intention of using them for tanking. I quickly gave up when it took ages to kill anything in overland. As others have said already, it's not fun. I also don't want the pressure in groups that comes from being a tank. I'd rather pew, pew, pew. It's more fun all around.

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

Overland damage is tedious because the S&B skill line is so anemic due to PvP.

I always go new DLC land with my main tank character, and most of extremely good.

Because, can do most of overland boss by solo, even some of group trial boss.
Just can't do few of boss who has health regeneration skill though.

So, I don't think DD is general solution. Only good for solo trial.