‘Frostborn Guardian’ ESO Warden Tank Build

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‘Frostborn Guardian’ ESO Warden Tank Build Introduction

In the realm of Tamriel, where frost and nature intertwine, a formidable protector emerges. Welcome, fellow adventurers, to the world of the Frostborn Guardian!

With the cold embrace of winter at their fingertips, the ‘Frostborn Guardian’ commands the forces of frost to freeze their enemies in their tracks. They summon chilling blizzards that reduce the swiftest of foes to a crawl, while shielding themselves and their allies from harm with impenetrable ice barriers.

The true strength of the ‘Frostborn Guardian’ lies in their harmony with nature. They call upon the very essence of the wild, manifesting towering creatures to aid them in battle.

This is a general Warden Tank build for completing PvE, Dungeons, Trials and Arenas. It is aimed at being a fun alternative to the “meta,” and we’ve also included options for more optimized dungeon and trial content.

Frostborn Guardian is a double frost staff Tank build aimed at AoE debuffing and it can easily be adjusted to work in the most difficult content.

See more: Warden Tank Overview

‘Frostborn Guardian’ ESO Warden Tank Build Information

Race

Nord

Mundus

The Atronach

Stats

38k+ Health
15k+ Magicka
20k+ Stamina

Potions

Tri-Stat Potions
Minor Heroism Potions
Potion Info

Race: Nord is really useful for the increased Resistances, but a Breton or Imperial might also work well.

Mundus: This build only uses Magicka abilities so The Atronach provides the best utility.

Stats: You can apply your attributes however you like but it’s good to aim for some decent base level stats.

Food: Red Frothgar gives a ton of Magicka Recovery which is great for this build.

Potions: Essence of Health Tri-Stat potions work well to buff all 3 recoveries and restore Stamina.

‘Frostborn Guardian’ ESO Warden Tank Build Gear

Archdruid Devyric – Veteran Earthern Root Enclave Dungeon, Urgarlag Chief-bane

Turning Tide – Shipwright’s Regret Dungeon

Crimson Oath’s Rive – The Dread Cellar Dungeon

Armor of the Trainee – Guild Store or Starter Zones

Bloodlord’s Embrace – Mythic Item:

  • Fanged Cuirass – Shadowfen Sanguine’s Demense Public Dungeon Bosses
  • Goblet Gorget – Spindleclutch I Last Boss
  • Hecatomb Tassets – Imperial Sewer Bosses
  • Sanguine Doublet – Coldharbour Village of the Lost Public Dungeon Bosses
  • Thirsting Girdle – Crypt of Hearts I Last Boss

For this build we use the Archdruid Monster Set to apply Major Vulnerability to enemies, we alternate this with Turning Tide so we can maintain a potential uptime of 100% on this debuff allowing our group to do a lot of damage.

Turning Tide is can maintain a 66% uptime of AoE Minor Vulnerability by itself and offers some decent benefits to the wearer with Max stats as well.

Next we use Crimson Oath’s Rive to apply another AoE debuff with an Armor shred, it increases the groups Armor penetration allowing them to again, do more damage to enemies.

On this build we use Bloodlord’s Embrace, while it’s not an amazing Mythic item, it works well on this build since we have space to wear it. You could use any mythic you like if you can fit it into the setup or alternatively you could use a weapon set such as the Maelstrom Ice Staff although the available weapon sets that can be used on the staff don’t seem very appealing.

We use a one piece of Trainee as it’s a spare gear slot and this set is the best 1-piece that you can get on the body pieces, it gives a chunk of Max Health by having just 1 piece.

‘Frostborn Guardian’ ESO Warden Tank Build Skills

Frostborn Guardian Skills

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‘Frostborn Guardian’ ESO Warden Tank Build How To Play

This is a simple build to play because the general concept is to maintain all of your buffs and debuff cooldowns.

Pre buff with Expansive Frost Cloak and Bull Netch.

Instigate combat with a Light Attack + Frost Clench then apply Elemental Susceptibility.

Position the enemy and place Elemental Blockade, Corrupting Pollen and Gripping Shards and apply Fetcher Infection to the enemy.

Pull in any ranged adds with Frozen Device then recast Gripping Shards to immobilise them.

ESO Dungeon Tank Build Champion Points

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