The Best Dragonknight Tank Guide & Build for PvE | Sets, Skills, CP etc. | ESO - Update 40 

Well they do say to 'learn from the best'...so here we all are.

You have the best tank guides in the game! I always recommend them to everyone trying to get into tanking or wanting to improve their tanking knowledge and ability. They’ve helped me a ton!

I seriously appreciate your content. I can't think of another game that has a content creator that's at your level of game play AND has the in depth knowledge/understanding AND produces quality, well delivered content. 👑

Thanks for another indepth build guide.

thanks so much the other guides ive been looking at were missing a lot of important info and explanation

Thank you for this detailed and clear guide

Genuinely appreciate the amount of work and knowledge that went into this video. I just finished my first trial trifecta as DK tank and still learned a lot. Always reminds me of the immensely high skill ceiling for tanking. Any time I'm asked how to tank I give my own take on it and in the end refer to your videos. Really hope for more in-depth guides, especially for necro and sorc tanks. Keep it up, this is a necessary and amazing format!

I thank you from the bottom of my tank heart! You have nailed it bro!!

Thank you very much for this.

Thanks for your hard work! I would love to see an updated Necromancer's Tank Guide 💙

As a new ESO player searched for about a week for an info or guide for dk tank and this popped up today thank you a lot for your hard work for so in depth guide really appreciate it!

Another great video! I was thinking about deleting one of my toons to make an arcanist tank but now that I know that maybe just using some Nirnhoned pieces and maybe a protective jewelry piece I can make my khajit stamarc work. Even though the subject was Dragonknight.

You put so much Work in your Guides! Muh appreciated! Thank you 🤗

I love how you go through each skill and it's morph and say why one or the other should be used. It gives a much better understanding of what's going on instead of just throwing out a template and say "use this because I say it works". Thank you!

Very nice to see you making videos for a broader audience. There's something in here for everyone. You show the basics that we can read from the tooltips, but also tell us from your extensive experience what really works and when you may need it. The video editing is also great! Your tempo has also slowed down to fit us who don't go for world records, but just want to learn more.

Love listening/ watching while working on chores but ong temp gang

Nice video. I love my DK. Im running the old faithful set yolnahkriin. With powerful assault. For monster set im rockin the Magma incarnate helm with the Spaulder of Ruin shoulder.

Im building my dk to be tank dps, two handed for when I'm tanking and dual wield axes for when im in your face dps. Its very fun to be the one leading the charge everytime

Just wanted to add that despite there being better ultimates to slot for passives, the snb ultimate can be quite handy in pugs when you need to ressurect someone

*Great Video!*

Hell yes . 🔥🔥🔥🔥

I built a necro tank with half hyper half homebrewed and it's fantastic but when things get wild, out comes old faithful DK tank.

Great and informative vids as always! Other then poison glyph on 1 hand, what do you use for combustion passive stam recovery?

Thanks for the very informative video. Do you count the armor buff from puncturing remedy ser towards armor cap? I noticed that your merged skill setup for console players doesn't have a source of major resolve. Is that because you get some armor from puncturing remedy?

godlike!

Toon is lit, what cosmetics did you used?

Great video, very informative and well articulated. Since your video was so well done I have a question for you that I can't seem to find a proper answer for anywhere. It's a 1 bar question actually. FTR: I'm rather new to ESO and just recently started tanking and to make life easiest for me I'd like to try 1 bar tanking first. So I was wondering if you knew exactly how the Oakensoul ring affects the back bar enchants, skills and gear? Specifically when dealing with the possible still usefulness of such things as passives, weapons enchants, and traits. In other words, does the ring completely negate everything from the back bar, or do somethings like passives, weapon enchants and/or traits still work? I realize you can't switch to and activate anything manually, but I've heard somethings still take effect. Thanks.

Great stuff as always, but what is the fashion on that toon? It looks awesome

What is the outfit style that you're wearing? Curious about how it would look with Blood Forged skin and Void Pitch pigment.

For the weapon types section you mention that sword and board is the more defensive option - but if im at armour cap already, ice staff give me ancient knowledge passive for reduce block cost and block damage mitigation of 20% as a passive. I lose a damage shield but im already spending stamina on blocking and castinf stone giant - so keeping ice staff up for me feels more defensive?

So what would be best kinda want a set up i that you can use for everything cuz switching around is bit complicated

Hi me and a friend recently got back into the game and we wanna do all hm dungeons 2man. You have any experience with this ? Seems right up your alley 😂. If so what would you recommend for the tank setup and are there any dungeons that just aren't doable

Not that it really matters, as this won't apply to most tanks, but for beginner crafted sets, I would probably go with Daring Corsair and Spectre's Eye. As I said, though, it doesn't really matter. Obviously, I am assuming no space for heroic slash. Love the video. Point a lot of people this way.

in dungeon trash is there still a reason to play puncture since you already have caltrops and wall that have the same debuffs ? I was thinking of replacing it by a fighters guild skill for ulti gen or charging manoeuver or even heroic slash for minor heroism

Where can I get the armor you are wearing in the video? Cant find it sadly

GOAT

I tend to use unrelenting grip to make immovable, movable with all heavy set and to proc encratis.

Necro next please

I was just thinking about making my first tank and this video came out! Also how would you rate dragonknight, warden and arcanist tanks in terms of easiness for a beginner?

re: Boundless Vitality - "...if a fight does not have max HP based damage." Is there a list somewhere of the fights where this applies?

Im an imperial dk tank. What sets should i have before trying to tank trials to farm trials sets?

I watched all Hyperioxes tanking videos when i did all dungeon trifectas and extra achievements. The only time I had to deviate was Scriviner's hall because we could not push fast enough and I needed more protection.

How to restore stamina when using 2 ice staves? Not only on DKs, but on any class. For example, I am on boss fight, boss hits me a lot so I use block, stamina goes down to zero, but boss still hit me, what should I do? If there are heavy attacks that kill me if it not blocked?

Is taking noxious breath instead of caltrops not an option?

Awesome video! I dont know if someone has mentiones it but your generic dungeons setup didnt have a major resolve skill.....i swapped out altar for it in my setup :D

Hi, I play for dc tank, there are 4 of us and we go to the dungeons. Tank, heal and 2 dd - stamina and mana, one dd has problems with penetration. And he often talks about it, I can't decide on the sets for the group, if I take a set to break through, then it will be useless to another dd. Can you help me with advice on which set to take? Find a middle ground so that everyone is happy.

What would you change for u41?

Can you use a poison ( not enchant ) for your front bar weapon even if using decisive on a dk ( i want to proc combustion but still want to be on decisive trait )

nice video. Any place i can find this written guide ?

How up to date is the necro guide from 1+ year ago? Could you just whack these gear setups on one or does colossus change things for pug setups

*Armor Cap* -> Resistances are hard capped at 33,000 so once you reach 33k Spell or Physical, anything extra that you have does nothing to benefit your character. At 33k you gain 50% mitigation and for each 660 resistances, it's equivalent to 1% mitigation.

What is the chestpiece used on your dk? It looks sick !

How does he get the calculations for max stat and damage on the abilities?

I thought resistance cap shouldn't be a big factor since when blocking, resistances do not apply. I learned this from Tank Club. Resistances only matter when you're not holding block. So I'm guessing people perma blocking shouldn't invest to the resistance cap while more experienced tanks that use their block when it counts should prioritize the resistance cap? Is this correct? I'm a returning player that mains tank for the past 2 years in vet content/trials after switching from a DPS main.

can it be soloed?

i wanna know what motifs that outfit set lookin sick my guy

I don't think reduce cost works correctly with cinder storm, I notice my magicka ticking down as normal when I cast it even with 3x infused magicka cost pieces. Bug or not idk but I tested it out of combat to check and it definitely was costing magicka to cast still.

please, need guide tank necromancer

Yo was gonna ask you ever mess with cutting defense in the blue tree if not finna test it lol

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I hate tanking in other MMOs, but in ESO it's so pissbutt easy, I wish I had gotten into it sooner. 😭😭

whats the drip

i personally dont like playing with anything else than a shield, would you say its wrong to drop the destructive staff?

very detailed ultra well explained guide but I still have to hard disagree, making regen tanks is just stupid as you can't regen stamina while blocking and with your own logic, "good tanks know not to perma block" - even tho again I wanna disagree, there are literal dungeon bosses on HM that light attack you for 20-25k even at full cap armor and even protections up, so again perma blocking (sadly) is the way to go, not even going to mention lags (server side, my internet is good) or bugs where a boss would do animations without you even noticing them and in fast succession so if you aren't blocking and get double tapped 20k LA you will generally die; and to circle back cause I made a huge detour, if you know not to perma block, then you can heavy attack and just get all those resources in one hit rather than waiting 6 seconds for your stupid regen to do it's job. Unless you go in prog teams that are like 0.01% of the content and players out there, doing trifectas, doing the build like that is bad, since you will end up being a "pro" tank in some pug or helping a friend and you die cause "oh no my healer didn't send me orbs" or "the other tank died and I have to tank 2 bosses and 3 ads and I don't have all sturdy so I will be out of stamina in 5 seconds". So I would stick to sturdy in most situations. I mean sure you can have like 3 sets if you are rich or crazy and just swap them around but if something happens mid fight you will probably just call a wipe rather than recover, from my perspective I came back from being solo alive in pugs and ressing everyone back up cause the "MT" died (we were on the fire dragon in vSS) in many cases. If the game would work perfectly (we even had a block bug ffs) and people played like top tier guilds, I agree with you, but saying "you're still learning the game so you use sturdy and block cost" is so wrong and elitist. Which proves me right when I join prog teams and I own even tho I've probably never done that HM before. As long as you keep your buffs and debuffs up, there is no right or wrong way to tank, unless you die which for me doesn't happen.

WTFrick! This doesn`t say unkillable in the title so I am not interested!

Does this guide really need to be an hour plus?

where templar

How tf do people afford the consumables lmao... The prices on PC NA are crazy af bruh.. returning, and everything is so expensive lmao.

I don’t think the Dragonite tank is the best. Honestly, I think the Templar is the number one best right now, except for the one buff that the Templar does not get that the Dragonite pink gift to the group that’s the only thing, but if you want survivability and resource management that is 1000% Templar Templar I’ll stay in the game way longer than Dragonite by far.