Dragonknight PVE Tank Self Sustain

Armor Types

Gear and Item Set Info

Head - Mighty Chudan's Visage - Infused - Max Health Enchant

Shoulders - Mighty Chudan's Paudrans - Divines - Max Health Enchant

Chest - Ebon Curiass - Infused - Max Health Enchant

Waist - Ebon Girdle - Divines - Max Health Enchant

Hands - Ebon Gauntlets - Divines - Max Health Enchant

Legs - Ebon Greaves - Infused - Max Health Enchant

Feet - Ebon Sabastions - Divines - Max Health Enchant

Neck - Necklace of Hatchling's Shell - Healthy - Health Recovery Enchant

Ring - Ring of Hatchling's Shell - Healthy - Health Recovery Enchant

Ring - Ring of Hatchling's Shell - Healthy - Health Recovery Enchant

Both Bars

Weapon - Hatchling shell 1 hand - Defensive - Crusher Enchantment

Shield - Hatchling shell - Infused - Stamina

I wanted to try something different than everyone else's typical tank gear. I wanted to maintain 50% damage reduction at all times and not rely on buffs. I also chose to go with Health enchantments over stamina, magika or anything else because a little health cushion is a tank's best friend. 

There is some freedom on swapping around Ebon Armor and Hatchling Shell armor but you msut use the monster helm and shoulders set for the reduction of damage bonus and must have the hatchling shell as weapon and shield. There is a bug in the game when you swap bars that you lose all of your buffs and get the new set of buffs so what happens with having Ebon armor on your weapons, the party will lose the health bonus and regain it but not regenerated. So to show that as an example if you have 35,000 health and swap bars you would go down to 34,000 with a max of 35,000. By swapping the bars with Hatchling's Shell, you still maintain the shield, it just resets the timer and for a split second you lose 4% additional healing.

I also went with infused on major pieces and divines on others to maximize the benefits out of the armor. I have contemplated using some Impenetrable gear in place of divines but haven't experimented with it yet. With this setup, I can be the last man standing in a vet dungeon, throw up my shields, buffs, etc and revive 2 people without dying which is very helpful.

General Info

The way I start any fight whether it is a mob or a boss, I use shielded assault to close the gap and give a shield, Y, Pierce Armor to taunt and lower the enemies resistences by 5280 for 12 seconds, Left Bumper, Elude to increase dodge by 20% for 33 seconds without having to block like the Histbark gear set, X, Choking Talons for minor maim which reduces those in close proximity to deal 15% less damage for 7 seconds, B, then Heroic Slash to give me minor heroism giving me 1 ultimate every 1.5 seconds over 9 seconds. I swap my bars to then place on Igneous Shield, X, to shield everyone in my party and increases my healing for 6 seconds. That is an initial attack. So after that, I maintain the buffs I've already applied, I don't use a Choking Talons on bosses much after the initial because I would prefer to use the magicka to maintain Igneous Shield, Igneous Weapons, and Green Dragon's Blood for emergencies. 

Whenever available, I try to use Aggressive warhorn to assist in damage. There are 3 things that make a good tank in my opinion in ESO. 1 is being able to hold aggro on bosses 2 is to self sustain health to allow the healer to dps or to revive your party if the healer dies and 3 is to boost dps to not tank as long.

Vigor is a nice heal when you know a boss is going to do an AOE, you can pop vigor to heal melee dps or casters close enough so when they get hit, they instantly start recovering. I leave inner beast on in case the boss is too far away to use shielded assault and I need to aggro, otherwise I use shielded assault as a gap closer.I also leave Magma Shell on in case everyone goes down, I have one extra buff to stay alive and revive.

For food I would recommend max health and max stamina, but if possible max all stats. For potion, I use magicka to replenish since that pool seems to run out the quickest.

Something else to note is you cannot stack 2 specific buffs, for example, Elude grants 20% dodge bonus in the form of Major Evasion. Histbark also grants 20% dodge bonus in the form of Major Evasion. Those effects don't stack, you only get 20% dodge bonus either way.

Champion Point Tips

I'm newer to the Champion Point system so what I use is:

The Lord - Red - Heavy Armor Focus - 64

The Lord - Red - Quick Recovery - the rest of your Champion Points

The Atronach - Blue - Melee Weapon Expert - 100

The Apprentice - Blue - the rest of your Champion Points

The Lover - Tenacity - 100 

The Lover - Mooncalf - the rest of your Champion Points

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