The ULTIMATE ESO Tank Guide 2021 | Elder Scrolls Online

Hello and welcome to The Tank Club Tanking Guide for ESO in 2021. In this guide we cover a wide range of Tank related topics to help you get into Tanking!
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00:00 Introduction
00:59 Responsibilities
07:21 Priorities
08:30 Taunting
21:03 Surviving
23:56 Sustaining
30:29 Buffing & Debuffing
36:47 Tanking Multiple Enemies
53:14 Tanking Bosses
59:59 When to Progress as a Tank

[@westakahashi5487]

The first rule of tank club, talk about tank club.

[@clarinevermore8873]

Never been a tank before. Made a warden and people have been giving me shit for class choice. Watched your video, jumped headfirst into a vet dlc dungeon. Got the completion and a guild invite. Thank you!!!! 100% contribute my success to this. :)

[@TheTankClub]

Thrilled to hear that!

[@STR8L8CED]

Been playing eso for three years. Im a good healer and a shitty dps so I finally decided to make a tank. Idk why I waited so long. Its fun as hell. It feels natural.

[@arissp4950]

hi i play healer as well and im garbage dps, on other mmos i tank only should i give it a chance here? how is it compared to wow or ffxiv tanking? it seems very complicated

[@Ryan-pg4sy]

Tank you for the knowledge 😜

[@TheTankClub]

00:11 Introduction 00:59 Responsibilities 07:21 Priorities 08:30 Taunting 21:03 Surviving 23:56 Sustaining 30:29 Buffing & Debuffing 36:47 Tanking Multiple Enemies 53:14 Tanking Bosses 59:59 When to Progress as a Tank

[@PriscilleDhesse]

I've never seen such a well constructed game guide video! The presentation is clear and well constructed. This one hour is well worth the effort. Thanks a lot!

[@Footballar09]

Thank you so much for this! I started playing eso about 3 weeks ago and I’m playing a Nord DK tank currently on CP 30. This helped a lot!

[@morrgash]

The BEST guide i have seen for tanking, well done!

[@nalt0id862]

Great video, I’m new to ESO and always enjoyed tanking in older mmos. Was nervous to try it in eso as I’d heard it was more complicated but this vid has gotten me excited to level my Imp DK tank up! Just have to find a good guild. Keep up the good work!

[@Shinbaal99]

Just getting into ESO tanking in this is hands down the best video explaininig it. Thanks buddy and cheers!

[@TheTankClub]

Glad it helped!

[@DirtWizard33]

Man thank you for sharing this info. This is a great video. I have wanted to make a tank for a long time but never could find any good info on "how to tank" lol. Your site is awesome! Keep sharing the info. =)

[@bovrar2nd861]

This is great information brother, I appreciate your efforts to help new crew like me.

[@RussellFeatherstone]

Been playing for years but never took resistances or reduced block cost seriously. Now I'm at 50k hp, 35k spell resist and 31k physical resist I can literally carry groups whilst sustaining easily.

[@colinschwander3341]

"Then they @$%!ing run away" lol that caught me off gaurd and had me laughing. Graat Video man as always. I've just recently started tanking in ESO and your videos have helped immensely. Every single i learn something i didnt know, medium taunts for instance neved heard a single person mention. Hope ya keep em coming! P.S. I'd love to see a video from you about a sorc tanking build, or even just sorc tanking in general. Ive tried tanking on like 4 classes and sorc is my favorite by far but there arw very few current videos about them.

[@haclp49]

nice guide! i see the build in the stream and its very complete guide, thx :D

[@ninjaneerz8350]

Production level Proper! Bravo! 💯

[@tavaroevanis8744]

Masterclass! This video is the most comprehensive and approachable lecture on the subject of ESO tanking that I have seen to date. Thank you for this rare opportunity!

[@chunkytoaster6512]

paid more attention to this video than any of my online classes. jokes aside, appreciate the video mate. just made my first tank character and this helped to answer a lot of my questions.

[@nbravo9]

lmao me too, im like damn this is like a lecture...but one im extremely interested in

[@thohaido]

I started my tanking experience with watching bad and sometimes good Tanks in dungeons, watched them and thought about how I would do it. Next step for me was tanking PUGs and improving my mechs knowledge. Then I got into a dungeon team in which we started with vWGT and vICP and worked down the vDLC dungeon list, doing no-death, speed and hardmode in all of them (still working on some of them). After I tanked vDLC dungeons for around 2 months I started tanking vCrags and their hardmodes and now after around 7 months of tanking I only miss a vSS clear. (and of course a lot of the challenge runs in most of the trials) Tanking is really nothing you just jump on and do, in my mind. It took me a lot of practice and failure to get where I am now and I am honestly proud of it and hope I can improve even more! My personal best thing I managed to pull off (in my eyes) was tanking vBRP without a Healer! I love your website man! It taught me a lot of stuff and accelerated my improvement as a Tank so much! So a big thank you from my side!

[@dirtsapient9638]

Thank you so much for the video lesson lee. This has been super helpful.

[@TheTankClub]

You're very welcome!

[@NewtdoggGaming]

Just started playing after a couple years, decided to make a tank and didn’t follow any guide or video. I’ve made a few mistakes, I need to reslot my attributes. Didn’t put enough in health and my stam is real low. Thanks for the guide

[@danestrada2522]

Started tanking this week, loving it so far. Great video man. Im having no issue with sustain or damage, its the crappy dps in some groups that make tanking boring. Always makes me switch back to my dps, to burn through dungeons. Blows my mind how many people that are 700 cp and suck. I just started this game and i can out dps people and im at 400 cp.

[@TheTankClub]

That moment when you go into a dungeon and you are setup as a Tank and outparse the DDs 🙈

[@wormcultist6637]

You actually missed out Cleansing. For example. Certain AOE abilities, poisons, burnings etc can been taking away most types of Dots can be cleansed. As a necro Tank I use Expunge and modify it gives back resources as well

[@laja6108]

This guide is epic 🙌🏽 btw, as a tank in wow you *do* have these same concerns. Without proper use of damage mitigation abilities, the ability to do damage to assist in killing the boss before enrage timer, buffs, minding mechanics, etc there would be no progression. Maybe the base game dungeons you can (similar to eso’s overland normal dungeons) but not a chance in heroics (when content is newer) and especially not in mythics.

[@alvisjose]

Thaank you, great guide!

[@wormcultist6637]

Being a good Tank is actually very difficult. Alot of dps and healers think it's easy but it really isn't. Sometimes you are under so much pressure, and the ones that crumble and die are the ones that just arnt there yet. When I tank I'm doing 10x more and concentrating more than when I DD that's my honest opinion

[@LeeNordTank]

Great Video 👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@davidc7938]

Thank you great guide!!!

[@Lewmayne609]

Loved the guide

[@1BadKidd]

Got bored of insane queue times as DPS, got into tanking, and have been enjoying the game substantially more since then. Imperial DK Tank, haven't looked back since for 4 man content.

[@alexandrebuteau9433]

i always thought a tank, like any other class, had to build 5-1-1, for the undaunted passive.. is it that bad?

[@johnaiton3940]

Great video! I've watched this and others multiple times. Really enjoy the wealth of information you provide. Question for you though, cause I can't seem to find the video again... You had mentioned that once you have taunt, debuff, buff, crowd control, etc. and you need a spammable. What do you recommend as a spammable skill for a tank?

[@TheTankClub]

As a Tank you typically don't have a "spammable" skill typically with a few exceptions such as Igneous Shield on a DK, that is a skill you would want to use very often when you have nothing else that you need to cast because it gives so many various benefits.

[@johnaiton3940]

@@TheTankClub Thanks for the response. I rewatched your Dungeon Tank Build video where you had mentioned the Igneous Shield skill. I knew you had talked about it somewhere! Thanks again!

[@julioluciano390]

Thank you

[@usmc37wpns.co.44]

Great video I appreciate the info, the video would be even better if I wasn't struggling to hear you over your background music, just saying.

[@newworldforward1842]

Thanks very nice guide :) Could you do a guide on PUG tanking? Especially for the vet DLCs. PUGs are so diverse and you never know what to expect. What's the best way to prepare to maximize the chances of clearing the dungeon?(even with low dps) What gear should we bring etc?

[@davidmcnay]

I focus on knowing the mechanics, staying alive and being able to buff myself so I can resurrect if I’m the last one standing. PUGs can be hard on resources as you often don’t get any, healing can be patchy and DPS low so I often find keeping it simple works best.

[@hellstrike5366]

If you look in the description there is a link to his website where he has extensive information on builds from optimized trial set-ups to PUG group builds.

[@bomah3486]

good hard work

[@leokrupp4442]

9 out of 10 DPS's prefer sweet sweet back meat.

[@ayz4299]

thank you my sunshine

[@ayufever1978]

about bar space i am in a pickle! i use a typical tank setup: nord DK with encratis, yolna, along with either of these- PA, worm, or drake. 7 heavy, all sturdy, all tristat, atronach, 3 mag regen jewelry. i backbar PA and drake with the master SNB unless worm is used. when using worm and drake it is no issue slotting the necessary skills since those sets dont require an additional skill slotted. BUT.... bar space is an issue when i use powerful assault 😖 i need insight from a proffessional because i have no idea where to place vigor. i feel like none of my slotted skills can be dropped! front- pierce armor, heroic slash, stagger, GDB, iggy shield, barrier back- ice blockade, talons, chains, range taunt, balance, war horn i could drop stagger and replace it with vigor, but IMO a dk tank without stagger is not a very good dk tank. thats like a healer not using orbs! i would also like to backbar PA so i can keep the master SNB on front, but i can live without it if i have to. i do not depend on the master SNB for anything, its just a free heal while doing my job and no biggie if i had to give it up for slotting vigor on front. if i slot vigor in place of stagger would the spell/weapon damage bonus from PA offset the dps loss from not using stagger? (ideally i would want stagger and PA together for an even bigger group damage increase) if only frost staff still taunted on heavy attacks it would solve all my bar space problems LOL 😆😆😆

[@evepro]

about sustain... Maybe I lost a part but I watched the whole video. when you block your stamina will not regenerate. and in some trials there is so less time to sustain and there is no heavy after heavy! cause you know voids, tautrs, collet mobs and so on if you go in a single tank. so only 2 classes can sustain in block! this is a very important thing! NECRO and WARDEN. and yeah as you said - EG monsterset. but I think in raids especially Vet your mates wants something better then EG on you! Encratis for example. and you also can sustain from a weapon glif. stamina or magica from light atack. sorry for a long message

[@DerpyMcSquirtle]

Scared to death of tanking after bad times in FF14 but recently got into eso and tanking has peaked my interest…thanks for this guide, hopefully it’ll eventually make me a competent tank 🤞

[@kriptoscorner1688]

I'm kinda new to following Tank Club. Do you guys have a Guild on PSN American servers?

[@anonymoususer2195]

I miss heavy attacks, sometime i don't see HA animation but i fell down :(

[@PALIGames]

Tormenter + Rush of agony + Stampede = fun

[@noyourehigh8398]

I'm not talking smack. But dude to make a comparison of wow and eso is just wild saying that positioning don't matter. You haven't done any raids or mythics?

[@WHCOMEGAWEAPON]

The next to final boss in White Gold Tower has a blue flame attack that seems to always one shot through block. Also the final boss in Scalecaller Peak has that damn cone attack that comes from the dragon statues. I haven't found a way to block those either. Are either of these blockable?

[@TheTankClub]

In White Gold Tower - The blue flame attack, you have to run quickly away from the boss for that. In Scalecaller - The cone you have to get out of it or it's a 1-shot. You Tank the boss next to the statue and then you can walk right out. If you stand at the back of the room then you can't get out of it.

[@Sirkento]

Question about medium taunting, is it actually a taunt applied or is it just the crowd control that lasts for 2 seconds after you use the Ability? I suppose it could be a moot point because if they're stunned for 2 seconds they still can't hit anybody But I don't remember hearing anywhere that it was actually an aggro tool

[@TheTankClub]

It's a hidden taunt called the "Fiery Grip Taunt"

[@osabi11]

Hey, no idea if this comment will be seen, but I was wondering as I plan on "migrating" from WOW to ESO and always played a tank in WOW, if it is recommended I start out as a melee dps until I get some experience with the dungeons? or if I should just jump into it as a tank? also are tanks any good at the start for solo content while I level up my character? or would it be better if I level up as dps and go tank later?

[@TheTankClub]

Solo content would be hard as a Tank but early game you can definitely hybridize and do a bit of both. You can always run with a few different crafted gear options and do like melee DPS for solo then switch 1 gear set and start practicing Tank for group content.

[@steroitzz]

hey man what you say about having shield and sowrd on front AND back bar on this patch? And why u dont use Defence Stand in your builds?

[@TheTankClub]

Using Sword & Shield on both bars is a huge waste. You only use 2 skills from One Hand and Shield skill line so it's a bit pointless to do it. I don't use Defensive Stance unless I need it, I use that for vSS when I can reflect damage at the boss but otherwise its too expensive to use for most things and the passive benefits are not worth it for 1 bar slot.

[@steroitzz]

@@TheTankClub Thanks so much for your reply, mate! ❤️ It's not a self-evidence What about bone armor? Thought it's nearly necessary

[@TheTankClub]

@@steroitzz I don't think I ever used Bone Armor, its an expensive Stamina skill so again not really worth it

[@wdeemarwdeemar8739]

I used to buff myself so much but I had to eat so much. Not worth it. My favorite soft taunt... caltrops

[@CalienteQuack]

Bro thank you, Im coming back after leaving in 2015 and im so lost.

[@TheTankClub]

Welcome back

[@nevaeva7333]

Just started tanking. I can hold the boss and stay alive. Add control is wear I'm struggling.

[@TheTankClub]

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[@familypve4029]

This is the "Idiots guide to tanking" that I've been looking for. As a newish player, the mechanics of tanking have eluded me insofar as that I knew it was just different than WoW (or pick your other mmo). Thank you for putting this out there!

[@TheTankClub]

Glad I could help

[@cccb2878]

1:47 robot alert

[@perunswarogovic2305]

Well its ok to tank as WW with tormentor not just for fun etc... WW tank has the same 215 weapon/spell buff like yolnahkriin as a passive... not wastet 5 pieces just for taunting and not just good for a laugh... the WW is actually a good tank... not the best but still very good... you have major breach, a really good selfheal, stam sustain while blocking by using the heal at 100% HP you will get 3000 stamina without a healer just use it twice to get the stamina, nice hot for you just for doing dmg with a dot skill, 5948 ressi as passive, a very strong synergy for dd's, you have nice dmg, you can use swarm mother for chaining, and even more... just check Outs tue skillline... if you can tank vet trials as a templer you can do it with a WW. I saw it and it was not bad.

[@TheTankClub]

I play in a Werewolf Vet Trial Team as the Main Tank and the reality is they are not very good because you are limited a huge amount by being a Werewolf. Yes they 100% can Tank, and they can do a bunch of stuff and provide buffs and debuffs the same as any normal Tank, that does not mean they are good however. It's fun and it's possible but its not realistic for doing any reasonably organised group content, if you take Asylum Sanctorium as an example, it's impossible to taunt Saint Olms while it's protected by a Sphere, like Tormentor and Leap does nothing while it is protected so you can lose aggro of the boss, this wouldn't happen on a conventional Tank.

[@fabricatedsoul-]

been tanking for a year, still cant do vss....

[@360Gameplays1]

What means vss?

[@fabricatedsoul-]

@@360Gameplays1 Veteran Sunspire, the trial in elsweyr

[@Nightharrow]

I can help with that. Are you pc na?

[@chrisw1462]

@50:35 Talons is a root, and won't pull anything in.

[@bigdaddy_bo6741]

I can tell you have strong opinions on crappy vs quality tanking lol

[@TheTankClub]

Absolutely Larry! The goal of The Tank Club is simply to encourage and help the overall ESO community to have an improved base level of Tanking

[@bigdaddy_bo6741]

@@TheTankClub Its good to see a reliable resource for Tankers. I recently switched my class around and your channel has been a valuable asset!

[@Sweet_Reverb]

You really stress how important it is to try and improve, to strive to be better, not not just put 64 points into health and hold block, and I can't agree more. If there's one takeaway from this video that anyone watching *needs* to know, it's that trying is important. Maybe it's just me, but I rarely see people *want* to get good, people are so complacent with being low DPS, and are fine with not contributing buffs, etc. I guess FF14 was a thousand times worse when it comes to entitlement for being carried but ESO is the closest second I've seen. I guess it's because the pacing of the game, you can just spam random abilities and make it pretty far, you can get your monster helm, pre-trial bis and be fully decked out in leggos but not have to really try at all. I had two guilds in the past, and while we were semi-casual, we never got to a point where we were doing trials since I could never convince anyone to try, it's the "As long as I get my gear I don't give a damn how low my dps is" mentality. I ended up dissolving both guilds and quitting over it, I'm not saying I'm an amazing player but no one wanted to learn their class or try, they wanted to throw on heavy armor, put 30 points into mag/stam/health and start spamming spells without any weaving or rotation, just whatever looked pretty, most of the people in my guild touted themselves as "Hybrid" tank/healer/dps, only to provide trivial dps and result in me having to walk out of the dungeon, re-spec to tank/healer and walk back in just so we could finish a vet, ever single weekly meetup. Don't be the guy who doesn't try to push, don't be the guy who is complacent with holding block on his tank, always remember you're not just playing a single player game, you have a group of real people with you that have lives, and don't want to spend an entire Friday night doing that hard mode none of us need to do. Do what you can, but aim to do better. You'll fail, but failure makes you a stronger person. Don't be complacent with being terrible!

[@dylantravis190]

lol damage dealers practicing there rotations. they should focus on mechanics. way to many of my dps are low dps because they are dead to much. Remember Staying alive is more then just a tank concept.

[@cosmashiva4856]

please German Subtitles 🙏🙏🙏

[@dafifelement6170]

3:46 into the video and I love it, I'm a healer...yup I'm a healer and everything you have said so far is what I look for a tank to have or do I hate these "I wanna dps tank" like wtf...TANK! 1st-8th then dps if needed...when the healer i.e myself stay alive longer then the tanks it's a problem 😂... Ppl when you are tanking control the battlefield...OMG!!...USE A PULL THEN IF U LIKE STAB THEM WHEN THEY ARE NEAR U, INSTEAD OF RUNNING AROUND N STABBING ONE ADD AT A TIME NOW THE DPS GOTTA PLAY GRAB-@$$ TO KILL THE ADDS ALSO TANK ALLLLLLLLL TRASH ADDS N BOSS!!! N LET THE DPS DO WHAT THEY DO BEST!!!...I LITERALLY SEE TANKS, TANKING ONE THING WHY THE DPS RUNNING AROUND PLAYING GRAB-@$$

[@AbyssWolve]

Lmao agreed 100%. Learn control then add to dps if and only if you can without sacrifice

[@MattSimmonsSysAdmin]

This is not the ultimate guide. You don't explain any of the background information needed. What is AoE taunting? No explanation of what a Buff or Debuff is, or Aggro.

[@-JamieJay]

Blah blah blah

[@TheMoQingbird]

Sorry, mate, that music is giving me a headache. Moving on...