ESO Tank races (now that it has been out a while)

centkin

Does any race stand out for tanks now?  Or do all races hit all the softcaps if you decide to be a tank so it does not matter?  Curious is choosing an odd race for your tank will make you passed over for tanking or if the differences just are not that large.

 

NagilumSadow

The dark side is strong with Altmer -- assuming the Altmer is Aldmeri Dominion, rather than a traitor.

 

 

Curragraigue

It depends what sort of tank you want to be as the racial passives have synergies to class builds rather than the standard "tank", "healer" and "DPS" categories. If you want to be a Dragon Knight melee tank then the passives with benefits with healing in battle and stamina bonuses are all helpful, so Redguard, Orc, Nord and Imperial.

The beauty of ESO is that any class can be any one of those categories so comes down to your play style. If you wanted to be a Sorcerer  tank you can put together a build for this play style and you might want to focus instead on magic regeneration for more AoE attacks. So many possibilities, you shouldn't really feel limited to a particular race for a tank. Just look to see what play style you like and then put together a build based on that.

The skill calculators are a good way to plan a build to account for all of those factors http://esohead.com/calculator/skills

Damedius

Dragon Knight sticks out because of their armor ability and their high AoE damage for threat.

Templar sticks out because of their block damage mitigation, passive health/stamina regen ability and self heals for "oh shit" moments.

 

Race doesn't matter all that much because of soft caps. The magic/stamina/health regens are too easy to hit soft cap with.

Kayo45

I went with High Elf - DK, probably the worse of all the races to tank with as far a racials go. At least thats usually the case, I didnt really research but the racials sure dont fit. Regardless I hear it doesnt matter in the long run.

Unknown

Don't Spam Puncture on a Tank, from what I can tell, The actual Taunt on the Puncture is a "Dot" in terms you just need it applied to a Mob and it'll keep the target taunted.

When actually tanking what you wanna do is basically hold down Block, And do light attacks in between hits.

If you're bursting down actual Bosses, you wanna just spam Bash..That's right.. the actual interrupt, it'll do far more damage then anything else you have and if you build right, it cost very little endurance.

 

 

Scot

Don't pick Bosmer, Khajiit or Altmer for most tanks builds. Some tank mages might like a Altmer, apart from that pick one of the other races.