Share Your Subclassing Builds!

ZOS_Kevin

In this new era of Subclassing, there are more combinations than ever to fulfill your Elder Scrolls fantasy. If you're trying a new subclass combination out, feel free to share your builds below!

If you have a bug or issue with Subclassing, please use the specific thread for this, linked here.

Pixiepumpkin

Daedric Summoning: Twilight Matriach, Haunting Curse
Storm Calling: Mages Wrath
Destro Staff: Shocking Exp0losion
World: Soul Magic: Shocking Soul
Mages Guild: Meteor

Also the new user interface is a step in the wrong direction. I say this from a professional perspective. Its harder on the eyes, does not read as well and feels separate from the game. It's literally distracting me from the environment.

Unified_Gaming

The Arch Mage (PvP Sorcerer)

Deadric Summoning
Storm Calling
Assassination
World magic: Shock Soul (Shock, class mastery + Breach)

The Bowgank (SorcBlade) - PvP
Storm Calling
Dark Magic
Shadow

The Bowgank (BladeArcSorc) - PvP
Shadow
Harold of the Tome
Dark Magic
Shadow

OakenDK - PvP
Ardent Flame
Draconic Power
Assassination

And more to come on my YouTube channel

tomofhyrule

I'm keeping all of my characters pure. I wrote my characters' lore with their Class in mind, and they're not changing.
(I just wish it wasn't such a massive self-nerf to choose not to engage in Subclassing)

Granted, I'll have to Subclass my main for my trial prog, but as soon as I'm out, I'm going back to normal.

However, I'm very happy that others can use Subclassing, and I really hope that this opens the door to one or more new Classes in the near future.

LesserCircle

Will be taking a break from the game, overwhelming change and I'm not a fan, hope you guys enjoy subclassing and find some new playstyles.

LunaFlora

waiting for it to release on Playstation, but here's a few builds i wanna try out:

All pets 🩷
- Animal Companions
Feral Guardian and Netch.
- Daedric Summoning
Twilight and Scamp.
- Grave Lord
Skeletal Mage.

All beams, could use this on any class ^_^
- Dawn's Wrath.
Radiant Oppression and Reflective Light or Solar Barrage.
- Herald of the Tome.
Fatecarver and Runeblades or Abyssal Impact.
- Soul Magic.
Soulstrike and Healing burst Soul (probably using this heal for all these builds)

Elementalist
- Ardent Flame.
Fiery Breath.
- Storm Calling.
Boundless Storm
- Winter's Embrace.
Arctic Blast and Winter's Revenge.

for a Ghost Rider inspired build
- Ardent Flame
Chains of Devastation.
- Grave Lord.
Ricochet Skull.
unsure which other skills would fit, but it could be fun.

All "weapon" skills.
- Aedric Spear for the spears.
- Assassination for blades and spectral bow.
- Bone Tyrant for the scythe.
currently the only build i wanna try that I can't do on my main character as she's a Warden, though could replace scythe with Dawnbreaker

tsaescishoeshiner

Parkour just got better than ever!

Green Balance for Nature's Grasp to reach other players wherever they are.

Winter's Embrace for Frozen Retreat to pull players to anywhere cool you get to.

Storm Calling for Bolt Escape to reach hard-to-get places.

It used to take a warden and a sorc to team up for exploring, now you can support a whole group on your own. New meta.

ZOS_Kevin

LunaFlora wrote: »

waiting for it to release on Playstation, but here's a few builds i wanna try out:
for a Ghost Rider inspired build
- Ardent Flame
Chains of Devastation.
- Grave Lord.
Ricochet Skull.
unsure which other skills would fit, but it could be fun.

This is what I need to see!

SkaiFaith

A blue themed build could be:

Blue Puncturing Sweep
Default Deep Fissure (blue)
Magical Banner Bearer (blue)
Blue Resolving Vigor
Blue Fatecarver

Not blue, but Polar Bear could fit as ultimate.

Turtle_Bot

SkaiFaith wrote: »

A blue themed build could be:

Blue Puncturing Sweep
Default Deep Fissure (blue)
Magical Banner Bearer (blue)
Blue Resolving Vigor
Blue Fatecarver

Not blue, but Polar Bear could fit as ultimate.

Ice Comet (frost morph of meteor in mages guild line) is technically blue for its base colouring

Erickson9610

This doesn't really contribute to an Elder Scrolls fantasy per se, but it's a combination of Class passives that maximize the PvE damage dealer potential of a Werewolf:

• Aedric Spear
  1. Burning Light
  2. Balanced Warrior
• Storm Calling
  1. Capacitor
  2. Energized
  3. Amplitude
• Herald of the Tome
  1. Harnessed Quintessence

These passives are the reason these skill lines were chosen. No skill points need to be spent on the other passive skills in those skill lines — meaning it's technically cheapest to make this setup on a Sorcerer to minimize the cost in skill points.

The PvE Werewolf skills in this setup are:

• Werewolf Berserker
• Brutal Pounce
• Howl of Despair
• Ferocious Roar
• Hircine's Rage
• Claws of Anguish

Hircine's Rage when cast at 100% Health gives Major Berserk, and it also procs Harnessed Quintessence for extra Weapon and Spell Damage. Howl of Despair (the main spammable) is buffed by Energized, and all skills are buffed by Balanced Warrior and Amplitude. That just leaves Capacitor as a recovery buff and Burning Light as a damage proc (which is buffed by other passives like Werewolf's own Savage Strength).

Overall, this setup doesn't play any differently than the old PvE Werewolf builds did — it doesn't even look visually different. It doesn't necessarily contribute to the Elder Scrolls fantasy of using any spell at all on your character, but it is a solid buff for Werewolf that I will take!


P.S. I have no idea what I'm going to do with the human form, haha

chillar

cloak streak concealed and merciless. grats everyones the same thanks

Zodiarkslayer

Dark Knight - melee MagCro
Grave Lord - Everything except skull
Shadow - Refreshing Path, Dark Shade
Aedric Spear - Sweeps
Healing Contingency and Smash

Blooddrinker - StamDen 2H Bleed Damage Brawler
Animal Companions - Everything that does Bleed Damage plus Deep Fissure
Green Balance - Lotus Blossom
Bone Tyrant - Scythe, Bone Armour
Healing Contingency and Smash

Shiva - Frosty MagDen
Winter's Embrace - Everything
Grave Lord - Boneyard, Colossus
Herald of the Tome - Recuperative Treatise, Abyssal Impact
Chilling Contingency, Chilling Burst

JimFord047

THE SUB-CLASSING is fun, but it destroys the Armoury Stations use!! Wanted to go into a dungeon as a Tank, so into Armoury station load in my Tank, Not a problem, just like always. But now I have no Subclassing, and to get it back will cost 1500 Gold... Bit of a disappointment here

sans-culottes

I can’t wait to play the Necromancer I paid for, @ZOS_Kevin

Alcast

I have prepared some new pve builds optimized for the new ESO Subclassing system.

ESO Sorcerer Subclassing Build Heavy Attack - Sorc/NB
ESO Dragonknight Subclassing Build - DK/Arc/Ward
ESO Nightblade Subclassing Build - NB/Arc/Temp
ESO Templar Subclassing Build - Temp/Ward/Necro
ESO Warden Subclassing Build - Ward/NB/Temp
ESO Necromancer Subclassing Build - Necro/DK/Arc
ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build - Arc/NB/Temp
ESO Stealth Thief Subclassing Build – All Classes

Most of them feature popular combinations that were tested on the Public Test Server.

ZOS_Kevin

Alcast wrote: »

I have prepared some new pve builds optimized for the new ESO Subclassing system.

ESO Sorcerer Subclassing Build Heavy Attack - Sorc/NB
ESO Dragonknight Subclassing Build - DK/Arc/Ward
ESO Nightblade Subclassing Build - NB/Arc/Temp
ESO Templar Subclassing Build - Temp/Ward/Necro
ESO Warden Subclassing Build - Ward/NB/Temp
ESO Necromancer Subclassing Build - Necro/DK/Arc
ESO Arcanist Subclassing Build - Arc/NB/Temp
ESO Stealth Thief Subclassing Build – All Classes

Most of them feature popular combinations that were tested on the Public Test Server.

@Alcast coming in with the builds! Thanks for sharing!

ZOS_Kevin

Zodiarkslayer wrote: »

Dark Knight - melee MagCro
Grave Lord - Everything except skull
Shadow - Refreshing Path, Dark Shade
Aedric Spear - Sweeps
Healing Contingency and Smash

Blooddrinker - StamDen 2H Bleed Damage Brawler
Animal Companions - Everything that does Bleed Damage plus Deep Fissure
Green Balance - Lotus Blossom
Bone Tyrant - Scythe, Bone Armour
Healing Contingency and Smash

Shiva - Frosty MagDen
Winter's Embrace - Everything
Grave Lord - Boneyard, Colossus
Herald of the Tome - Recuperative Treatise, Abyssal Impact
Chilling Contingency, Chilling Burst

I've been waiting for the custom subclass names to appear! Shiva is a good one!

Turtle_Bot

sans-culottes wrote: »

I can’t wait to play the Necromancer I paid for, @ZOS_Kevin

Or my non-pet lightning mage that was a big reason for even buying (and sticking with) this game back around launch in the first place.

Zodiarkslayer

ZOS_Kevin wrote: »

I've been waiting for the custom subclass names to appear! Shiva is a good one!

Thank you. I have a couple more ☺️

Hermes (greek God of animal husbandry, yes Zookeeping)
Animal Companions - Bear, Deep Fissure
Daedric Summoning - Tormentor, Clannfear, Daedric Prey (got ninja buffed in u46)
Grave Lord - GLS
This is a Restoration Staff HA one bar build (Essence Drain is OP!)

Komodo Dragon - StamDK Poison build
Ardent Flame - Breath, Claw, Cauterize, Standard
Animal Companions - SubAssault, Bull Netch
Restoring Light - Focus, Ritual
I put every viable poison ability in this build and it is fun.

The Archmagister - Mages Guild themed Arcanist Healer/DPS hybrid
Herald of the Tome - no tentactles! yikes
Curative Runeforms - depending on the needs
Restoring Light - Channeled Focus,Extended Ritual
Magic Contingency, Scalding Rune, Structured Entropy, Meteor and Inner Light

Supreme_Atromancer

I dropped Storm Calling like a hot potato on my Breton Sorc and replaced it with Winter's Embrace. Finally got something that feels something like a frost mage from the cold north!

Also levelled Restoring Light because restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!

And shadow, for the fun and usefulness of Cloak.


Not a build, per se., just a more flexible suite of skills.

opaj

The first character I'm subclassing is my treasure-hunting Sorcerer, but a better name for this combo might be Saboteur.

While out on the field, she tries to avoid combat, sneaking past enemies to loot treasure chests, troves, and anything else that isn't nailed down. To accomplish this, she's keeping Dark Magic, but adding Shadow and Curative Runeforms to the mix. She keeps Defensive Rune up at all times just in case, has Passage Between Worlds to get into tricky places, and can trap a whole area with Daedric Tomb, Manifestation of Terror, and Lightweight Trap in a pinch. She also keeps cloak as a back-up plan, though her gear is built around stealth, and a few basic combat skills for when a scuffle really is unavoidable.

I'm still working out her combat build, though I do plan to incorporate Shadow Image so that she has an emergency escape option.

Elvenheart

I’m having a lot of fun with my new class, the Elementalist - Storm Calling, Winter’s Embrace, and Ardent Flame. I can finally have a more traditional magic using class like I’ve always wished was in the game since beta. I was always disappointed that the class most like a wizard was one-third summoning Daedric pets, so I tried to create something traditionally wizard-like from other classes but the class skills just never fit. So I resigned myself to just having “no-pet sorcerers” (except for one sorcerer I reluctantly use pets with).

AZ_Taco

The build I will play is the take a break from the game. This change is pretty disappointing for me because the game will become everyone running the same thing. People are saying that is opens up to creative builds, but that is simply wrong. I'll quote the Incredibles move "when everyone's super, no one will be" meaning anyone pushing the endgame content will end up using nearly the exact same multiclass build, probably Arcanist (Herald of the Tomb), Nightblade (Assassination) and some 3rd class.

Erickson9610

Here's an idea for a thematic "hunter" build:

• Aedric Spear, using Piercing Javelin as a hunting spear
• Animal Companions, using Feral Guardian as a hunting animal
• Shadow, using Shadow Cloak to help you sneak up on your quarry

This setup would look even cooler if we had Skill Styles for certain skills to make them fit the target theme. For instance, various spear skills in Aedric Spear could get Skill Styles to look like hunting spears (not glowing), Animal Companions could get Skill Styles of some non-Vvardenfell creatures (and maybe one to make Feral Guardian look like a hunting hound), and maybe Shadow skills like Shadow Cloak could get nature-themed green colored Skill Styles to sell the nature/hunting theme.

Cerbolt

I play on PlayStation so we've not got subclassing yet sadly but here's my ideas.

Frost Mage.
Herald of the Tome - tentacular dread, recuperative treatise
Grave Lord - unnerving boneyard, glacial colossus
Winters Embrace - ice fortress, winters revenge, northern strom

Stam sorc +
Storm Calling - hurricane, crit surge
Grave Lord - pestilent colossus, grave lords sacrifice, detonating siphon
Aedric Spear - blue biting jabs

Edit: changed some things.

GloatingSwine

Building up to what I think is going to be the Generically Good Dungeon Tank:

Earthen Heart/Winter's Embrace/Soldier of Apocrypha

Stone Giant
Igneous Weapons
Polar Wind
Wield Soul (Pull/Druids/Intellect & Endurance)
Runic Sunder
Precognition

Expansive Frost Cloak
Vigor
Caltrops
Frost Blockade
Elemental Susceptibility
Aggressive Horn

ragnarok6644b14_ESO

My Namiran reachwitch was a necromancer - after going through four iterations in various classes - and is now a Necromancer/Arcanist/NB (though I may go back to Necro/Necro/NB).

The NB has always been the "void" class, but the Necromancer has always been a bit more Namiran, so it was hard to choose originally.

I sort of wish I could be a necro for the set (Nobility in Decay is practically mandatory for a Namiran), and have two NB lines, but I am okay with Siphoning as the 3rd skill for now.

Not sure about Arcanist - it's more a color thing (Necro is blue, Arcanist is green, Namiran is turquoise) but the vibe is too bright. I may go with the other Arcanist skill line (herald of the tome) for the black tendrils. I am hindered because I don't like Crux.

nwilliams2107b16_ESO

Very boring compared to some of the above, I just wanted to remake my old Affliction Warlock from the game that must not be named, all beams and DOTs - Necromancer / Arcanist / Nightblade - Works very well and a blast to play.

Decimus

Tested and updated two PvP builds so far for this patch, working on the rest:

Stamina Dragonknight
Ardent Flame/Earthen Heart/Restoring Light

Magicka Sorcerer ("Sorcblade")
Dark Magic/Storm Calling/Assassination

Lystrad

Abyssal thaumaturge (frost arcanist)
Base class: Arcanist
Weapon: Frost Staff
Sets: Frostbite, Threads of War, Oakensoul, and iceheart helm
Skill lines: Herald of the tome, curative runeforms, Winter's Embrace
Mundus Stone: Atronach
Full light armor

Skills
Wield soul (frost damage, class script for crux generation, and breach)
Tentacular dread
Arctic Blast
Inner Light
Crystallized Slab
Northern Storm (might swap to tide king's gaze, but I like having all frost damage)

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Curative runeforms isn't there so much for it's abilities as it is for it's resource restoring passives, erudition and hideous clarity.