New player need help.

treehugginsantab14_ESO · June 2015

I see people posting things like, Nightblade Healer (Bloodmage)/NB vampire. So I am aware that there are 4 classes, however, what are people talking when they say... "nightblade", "vampire" or "bloodmage" are there different... sub classes? I am confused on what they mean? Is there more to character building than just weapon skills, champion points, and stats?

I have briefly watch a friend play skyrim, but I'm not 100% sure I understand some of these.

Nestor · June 2015

Vampire is something any character can become. It has it's own skill line and has some bonuses and negatives to being one. You just need to get bit, do some quests and your set. You can also become a Werewolf too. It also takes a bite. You can get bit by an NPC in the 4th zone you go to, not counting the starter island. Or by a player who has already done this.

A Templar is the Class for Healing from a traditional sense as their Class Skills can Heal. However, anyone can be a healer if they use and develop the Healing Staff skill. BTW, this is something I would wait until you have built up another weapon skill as I have not had luck using a Healing staff in combat. But, maybe others have and can give advice on that. I have yet to develop the Healing Staff skill on any of my characters, save one who tried it for a couple of hours.

The Built in classes are:

NB Night Blade
DK Dragon Knight
Sorc Sorcerer
Temp Templar

Each Class can have a Stamina or Magic Focus. Any character can use any weapons for any class, same with Race. However some weapons and some races are better for some classes. But, this difference is more important end game than during leveling through VR Ranks.

Never heard of a Bloodmage, probably that is what a Sorcerer Vampire is calling themselves. Guess that is a Magic based NightBlade who uses Siphoning skills (class skills) to heal others. I have just not seen the term as NBs are not known for healing.

TheSunAlsoRises · June 2015

nightblade is a class. vampire is a skill tree any class can use (like 1h, bow, restoration staff etc.) that you can unlock by being bitten by a vampire (rare mob in lvl 40+ zone or another player who is a vampire). bloodmage is a specific build for nightblades that is magicka based and use nightblade skills morphed for healing purposes (guessing damage too but i don't know too much about them).

if you go to eso-skills.com, you can see how the game's skills are layed out. you can build your character however you like with skill points you receiving from leveling, quests and skyshards (stones scattered throughout the game that you can activate). you can respec your class as you see fit if you allocate points in ways you don't like later on.

if you go through the skill tree, you can see morphs of skills that change the way they behave. this is how you can make "sub clases", if that's what you're asking.

also, this game isn't quite like skyrim. has similarities but it's a different experience.

treehugginsantab14_ESO · June 2015

Thanks for the feedback!

How many different skills trees are there? (e.g Vampire, Werewolf etc)?

Just those two?

TheSunAlsoRises · June 2015

there are over a dozen skill lines (with active abilities) anyone can access over and above their class specific skill trees.

eso-skills.com/skill

Nestor · June 2015

There is also the Alliance War Skills, the Mages and Fighters and Undaunted and Legerdemain and World and I am probably forgetting one. Then there are the Crafting skill lines.

But, for the first 15 levels, just concentrate on the Class Skills and your primary Weapon. You won't have the skill points to feed the other lines for quite a few levels.