Levelling as a Tank in ESO

Levelling as a Tank in ESO can take a while to do if you are levelling as an actual Tank, but this is also an opportunity to make sure you have all skill lines unlocked, everything collected, abilities levelled and you’ve develop an understanding of your character class and how skills/passives work. This is our handy guide for any new Tanks in The Elder Scrolls Online!

The very first thing you should do is try to find a few guilds to join, you’re able to join 5 guilds in The Elder Scrolls Online. You are looking for social / PvE based guilds with 300+ members so that you can find some help with getting some crafted gear.

You’ll also want to have a good number of people you can press on in the guild members list so you can fast travel to them to unlock new zones and so you can use the chat to ask for any assistance with things in the game. You might also be lucky and find a guild that has a Trader that you can make use of to sell some things and make a bit of gold.

There are a few ways for levelling up:

1. Overland solo levelling and questing
2. Dungeon levelling
3. Master Writs levelling
4. Experience grinding

You need to get Skill Lines levelled up so first of all kill something with a Destruction Staff to unlock the first Destruction Staff skill, you will need this later in the game. Equip a One Hand and Shield and kill something to unlock the first One Hand and Shield Skill this is the main skill line for Tanking. You then have 3 class skill lines; you need to get the first skill from each of those and put those on your active ability bar.

As a Dragonknight your 1st ability bar would look something like this:

As a Necromancer your 1st ability bar would look something like this:

As a Nightblade your 1st ability bar would look something like this:

As a Sorcerer your 1st ability bar would look something like this:

As a Templar your 1st ability bar would look something like this: