A dps can change nothing and blast through content having a good time, and a healer can throw on one set or sometimes change nothing but a few skills and also basically plow through everything. Like you said, the strength of ESO is the huge amount of solo content whether it’s questing, open world, arenas, or try to solo dungeons. I’m CP 800 something, and one of my main is a tank for group content mostly, and it really is less enjoyable than other tanks in MMOs when you wanna solo. I’m convinced that people who think this is fine have not extensively played tanks in other games. You and I might both get downvoted, but you are completely right. And I want to continue playing it, but class identity is so fluid and versatile - unless you’re a tank. I really like ESO’s combat and the world and writing. And I wasn’t expecting the same from ESO but I can’t say I was expecting to be completely handicapped every step of the way either. My only other experience with MMO tanking is FF where you have damage combos, and you’re encouraged to tank with achievements tied to tanking giving you special mounts.
But tanks are forced into this constant juggling of stats and sets and being a full blown meat shield or some hybrid bad DPS unless they want to spend tons of gold and go through menus and reslot all of their skills. Now they don’t even need to be healed and can face tank everything in the overworld. But why should I have to? Healers throw on a caster set. Hell, I was having to respec so often because I’m not always in the mood to run dungeons and sometimes want to clear up my quest log and achievements, that I leveled all my crafters so that I had a source of income to spend on those stupid shrines.īut OP, you might say, just level an alt and use that to farm zone sets and do dailies and basically everything in the game that doesn’t exist in an instance. Unless you want to pay gold to respec those too. Because of course your champion points are already slotted to help you tank veteran dungeons and trials. Want to go clear that delve for your journal and don’t have a friend to come carry you? You’re going to spend literally 20-30 seconds on each bear or skeleton in there or you’re going to have to pay stupid amounts of gold to respec all your points into stamina, equip a two handed sword (hoped you leveled that skill line!) and throw on a proc set to even come close to doing the amount of damage a “bad” stamina dps could do. And for whatever reason, Zenimax decided that tanks aren’t allowed to do damage. I’m a long time FF player who recently came back to the game, but before that I ventured into ESO and while I love some things about the game, I found tanking to be the most miserable, restrictive experience I’ve ever had in an MMO and I can clearly see why there is such a tank shortage in that game that DPS are actually queuing as a tank and foregoing even having one in the dungeon.ĮSO is mostly an overworld, quest-driven exploration game that is difficult to not play solo.
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