(Yes, I know Wardens are popular tanks too, but let’s not quibble). And although Lilith’s Champion Points are spent as per the typical DD, her class is Dragonknight, the decidedly most popular class for tanking. I’ve collected a three-digit number of skill points and levelled up her tanking skills as well as the damage dealing ones, and I’ve collected some tanking equipment like the Plague Doctor, Ebon Armory and Bloodspawn sets. However, I’ve spent ridiculous amounts of time doing easy content as Lilith while playing the game on and off for years. That’s a pretty decent damage setup, even if it’s nowhere near the 50-60k DPS that the top players can pull off.
As you can see, she could pull about 36k DPS self-buffed on a 3 mil target dummy (you may have to open the image in a new tab for it to work these days). So, before the experiences described here, my main grouping character for most of the time playing the game has been a DD – a Dark Elf named Lilith Dren. If the hardiest, most shielded and armored teammate is always running away from the fight, it really doesn’t send a good signal to the rest of the team. Now, this is kinda hard when you can’t remember which end of the room you came in and which way you’re supposed to exit to find the next line of mobs. Tanks are supposed to lead the charge, plowing first into the enemy ranks to absorb the damage and grab aggro from hard-hitting foes. You can probably imagine why this isn’t very helpful when tanking in an MMO. I can walk a hundred paces down a straight street and completely forget which direction I came from. The thing is, my sense of direction is embarassingly poor. One of my reasons may be a bit different, though.
Tanks are scarce in ESO because most people would rather play another role. Then I plan to chronicle my further experiences in the form of blog posts. (I’m currently leveling up a full-blown tank as well, one random dungeon a day but I’m not recording her stuff as it really wouldn’t be experimental enough for my tastes 😉īelow here I’m going to give some background, present my build(s) and log some of my early experiences.
But given the dearth of tanks, I recently decided to try my hand at some content that might actually require tanking, to try to step up my game a bit, and also, to see if a non-perfect tank build can do the job – because the characters tanking the content I’ll describe here can switch back to damage dealing at the press of a button. I’m a pretty casual player and have preferred to deal damage, or even heal. In the Elder Scrolls Online, there’s apparently always a chronic shortage of tank characters.
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