ESO TANK BUILD: DRAGONKNIGHT

“A THORN IN YOUR SIDE”

“A THORN IN YOUR SIDE”

This build is meant to take down your enemies while staying alive and helping your team. The main goal is to be a thorn in the side of the enemy by taking resources from them while doing damage at the same time.

BREAKING DOWN THE BUILD

Class: Dragon Knight

Dragon Knights are well known as one of the easiest classes to learn to tank. They are also great at crowd control and sustaining through battle with some outstanding buffs and shields.​

Race: Nord

The Nord race is known for its stamina regeneration as well as ultimate regeneration. Racial passives will heavily favor you in this build.

Buff Food: Long Fin Pasty With Melon Sauce

This food is easy to attain and will add to all three pools, giving you increased magicka, health and stamina for battle.

​Attribute Points:

You will want to put 44 points into health, 8 into magicka and 12 into stamina. The end goal is to have approximately 40K health, 20K stamina and 18K magicka on this build.

​Mundus Stone:

The Lord (Max health)

SKILLS

You will want to aim for these skills, but the order you place them depends on where you prefer to have them for the key binds. Most are fairly easy to unlock, though some will require advancing skill lines like the fighters guild to get them unlocked.

SKILL BAR 1

  1. Pierce Armor
  2. Heroic Slash
  3. Defensive Stance
  4. Inner Rage
  5. Sanguine Altar
  6. Ferocious Leap

SKILL BAR 2

  1. Green Dragon Blood
  2. Igneous Shield
  3. Bone Shield
  4. Choking Talons
  5. Unrelenting Grip
  6. Magma shell

ARMOR

  • Chest – Ebon – Reinforced – Health enchant
  • Belt – Ebon – Sturdy – Health enchant
  • Shoes – Ebon – Sturdy – Health enchant
  • Legs – Ebon – Infused – Health enchant
  • Gloves – Ebon – Sturdy – Health enchant
  • Helm – Infernal Guardian’s Guise – Light – Infused – Magicka Enchant
  • Shoulder – Infernal Guardian’s Arm Cops – Medium – Sturdy – Stamina Enchant
  • Jewelry – Radiant Bastion – Bracing Enchant on All – Healthy Traits
  • Swords – Radiant Bastion – Weakening Enchant – Decisive
  • Shield – Stamina Enchants – Block Reduction

CHAMPION POINTS

  • Warlord – 50
  • Arcanist – 40
  • Mooncalf – 50
  • Tenacity – 25
  • Tumbling – 45
  • Shadow ward – 60
  • Blessed – 75
  • Physical weapons expert – 60
  • Master of arms – 73
  • Thaumaturge – 40
  • Piercing – 10
  • Mighty – 12
  • Ironclad – 70
  • Spell shield – 15
  • Thick skinned – 55
  • Hardy – 60
  • Elemental Defender – 55

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