Im just wondering on how to build a proper tank for this game.

And would apriciate suggestions and opinions of others who played Tank and or Healers.

The general wonder is on how to build my tank..

Do i go for a race with the sword shield and for instance a decent Stamina regen, since stamina means say punctures for agro ?

Or isnt agro a big issue here and should one focus more on Health and the regen, is healing a pain as it is or could you focus on damage / agro and or CC's

instead of picking a majority of the defensive skills to ease the stress on healers.

I didnt have the experience of doing all of this in the beta so any info would be much appriciated

Im not going to state all my issues but im hoping you get the general idea here

I think tanking isn't going to be a thing in the 4-man dungeons; you may be able to be an "off-tank" (so tank-dps or tank-healer), but there simply aren't enough skills to control aggro to the degree you can in other MMOs. In the 24-man dungeons (raids) tanking will be viable because multiple tanks can back each other up during downtime. High level dungeons (35-50) may be a different story; you may be able to spend points in passives that could compliment your actives. Depending on their build a healer should be able to keep your health, magicka and stamina topped up quite easily.

I can't give any great advice - only the PTS players could; but something that suits your playstyle seems more important.

I would work with http://esohead.com/calculator/skills#zzVzqOC8qPJ8amF8off8s0G8Vyd8T7JcrqLw6MrqAi6MrqAZ6MrqAI6MrqAD8y7HqR3r6IR3a6MfQlu6MfQE16MfQE36MfQlI6MfQlr8l7NqzoC6Izky6MuvVB6MuvVJ8B7DqzRf6qzsw6MGkXa6MGkXG6MGkXN837cIw338zR7pcEwXD6cEwXC6cEwFP . Notice that you can use the Undaunted Spell named Inner fire to do another taunt. The choices of class and race are merelly my choices in the build that I linked, any class and race can work for a tank, they just do it differently.

What will tanking be like?


Answer: A cluster #@%


Thoughts: Glass cannon dps'ers are going to have a rude awakening.

As far as my playstyle goes.

In all the other MMO's ive played and ive played almost all of them.

Ive allways gone for a super mitigation / agro holder build

Just to keep my party safe and happy, thats what im supposed to do and what i prefer doing

And yes ive seen the extra taunt in there aswell, that was one of my aims

During beta my group had a very hard time tanking in pve. Maybe our tank svcked or he just didnt have what it takes to aggro. I would like to see a fix for this..