Has anyone tried a Redguard Vampire Sorc using Potentate, Drake, Dragon, and Syrabane?

Freelancer_ESO

Disclaimer: I do not play Redguards on live and I rarely tank or use Sword and Board.

The logic of the build is the following:

Redguard reduces the cost for weapon abilities by 8% which includes ultimates.
Sorc reduces Ultimate Cost.
Blessing of the Potentates reduces Ultimate Cost.

With the Stage 1 Vampire penalty this means that the One Hand and Sword Ultimate costs 80.

Using Drake's Rush will provide you with a decent amount of Major Heroism uptime.

Heroic Slash will provide you with Minor Heroism uptime.

Exhilarating Drain provides further ultimate.

In theory, you would be able to keep the ultimate up much of the time.

Since you are a sorc after every block your next Health, Magicka, or Stamina ability costs 15% less.

Syrabane's Ward works while you are blocking and that appears to apply during the auto-block of Shield Discipline.

Since you would be both Sorc and Vampire, you could get around the inability to move caused by Syrabane's Ward during the ultimate via Mist Form/ Bolt Escape.

Necrotech_Master

im not quite sure im following the goal of this build

im guessing maximum uptime of 1h/shield ult in combination with syrabanes ward mythic

im also assuming that this would be for group play because syrabanes ward itself provides you no benefit whatsoever

the 1h/shield ult only lasts like 6 seconds too, im not sure how much you would need to really move in that time frame

Oblivion_Protocol

Theoretically, you could keep the 1H and Shield Ult up almost continuously and be virtually invincible. My issue is that it turns you into a turtle. With so much dedicated to defense and a reliability on abilities for basic movement, you wouldn’t be able to do much for offense.

I suppose if you’re standing on a flag in Cyrodil, you could make an absolute nuisance of yourself for minutes at a time. But eventually, enough people will wear you down.

Redguards_Revenge

As a redguard I tell you this from the heart, don't ever play redguard. The passives only look good on paper, in practice they just aren't good. If you think sustain is better, you're feeling the placebo effect. I actually think redguard passives are an insult to my intelligence. I've used other races a d gotten better sustain with them and did not have to sacrifice power or health.

Redguards_Revenge

Ok what happens when someone drops negate?Then there's that ever so short delay when casting shield ult. You're not going to be going into heavy battles alone with multiple people. DK do that because they are stage 3 and have ulti that last 10 seconds and % heals.

I'd like to know how this build worked. Try it on ots if you have it installed already. You should be able to get all the gear free to try in pts.

jaws343

This is a similar attempt at perma ult I tried last year before the major heroism change on oakensoul.

Did a sorc with all ult gen and reduction. Used the ult return version of meteor. I was basically casting a meteor every 6 seconds, sooner if I hit enough enemies.

It was trolly, but wholly inneffective, as you have to give up a lot of damage potential to basically have a high costing spammable.

Freelancer_ESO

Redguards_Revenge wrote: »

Ok what happens when someone drops negate?Then there's that ever so short delay when casting shield ult. You're not going to be going into heavy battles alone with multiple people. DK do that because they are stage 3 and have ulti that last 10 seconds and % heals.

I'd like to know how this build worked. Try it on ots if you have it installed already. You should be able to get all the gear free to try in pts.

I tried it briefly in PTS in PVE before I posted to make sure the components actually functioned and they seemed to do so.

Personally, I found it to be more of a hassle than it was worth to me but, I generally run solo and I tend to use hp and abilities scaling on hp to tank rather than using blocking in much of the content I do.